The Secret to Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Online Superstardom? Control
…They don't have to buy this big billboard. The billboard is now on someone's phone. So I got a brand deal and the brand deal paid for me to be…
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This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
…Typing from your brain sounds cool and all, but it also raises questions about the privacy and security of your neural data. Chhabra says when data leaves the device and is uploaded…
Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
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Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
…The letter cites reporting from The Washington Post that said xAI had just “two or three” people working on safety as of January. “A question investors should be wondering is if xAI…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…But it relies on open source generative AI models combined with some retail-specific ones trained on decades of Walmart data. “We're able to route certain questions to one model and…
Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
SpaceX’s IPO is poised to be the largest ever, raising tens of billions of dollars for the Musk-founded company and valuing it above $2 trillion. If all goes as intended…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
…On a trip to Morocco in November 2025, he accidentally asked his agent a question using a voice memo. He had designed the agent to accept only text or images. “It just…
The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…When PIRG researchers posed as ‘PIRG AI Toy Inc.,’ requesting access to the AI models to build products for kids, Google, Meta, xAI, and OpenAI asked “no substantive vetting questions” as part…
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
…The goal is to enable engineers to use natural language to describe changes or ask questions about a chip. Just as one can vibe code an app, perhaps eventually it will be…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…And then there's a process of you, as an AI consumer, asking a question to ChatGPT or Claude. The process of you pinging that question and getting an answer in return…