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Meta's AI Locks Thousands Out of Their Accounts

Jun 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Meta's AI has officially gone rogue, and Instagram users are paying the price. What started as whispers in Reddit...
3 min read

Elon's Anime Companion, 'Ani' - Oh, Great

Jul 15, 2025 by Writing Team

Well, well, well. Just when you thought 2025 couldn't get any more dystopian, our resident tech overlord Elon Musk has...
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When "Vibe Coding" Goes Rogue: The Replit Horror Story

Jul 21, 2025 by Writing Team

You're building a critical business application using the latest AI coding platform. You've explicitly instructed the...
3 min read

Goldman Sachs Hires Its First AI Employee

Jul 14, 2025 by Writing Team

We've arrived at the moment every dystopian sci-fi writer has been waiting for: Goldman Sachs just hired its first...
6 min read

Digital Smell Is Here

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Amid the endless parade of AI applications that seem designed to eliminate jobs, spread misinformation, or convince us...
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The U.S. Government Plans to Launch AI.gov on July 4th

Jun 12, 2025 by Writing Team

The United States government is preparing to launch its own AI chatbot platform on July 4th called AI.gov, and if...
5 min read

Has AI Replaced College Writing?

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Hua Hsu's masterful excavation in The New Yorker reads like an academic autopsy report, but we're not examining a...
4 min read

In Denmark, You Own the Copyright of Your Face

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

We've all been waiting for someone to finally declare that your face belongs to you—and Denmark just threw down the...
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Perplexity's Comet Browser Is Finally Making AI Agents Real

May 28, 2025 by Writing Team

While the tech world has been drowning in agent-washing—slapping "agentic" labels onto glorified chatbots—Perplexity...
4 min read

New Upwork Study on AI Job Substitution

Jul 1, 2025 by Writing Team

The AI job apocalypse was supposed to be biblical by now. Mass unemployment, entire industries decimated, humans...
5 min read

Everything Wrong With Samsung's AI Pasta Sauce Ad

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

Guardian columnist Emma Beddington struck a nerve with her scathing critique of Samsung's AI advertisement, and the...
5 min read

AI Chatbots as Psychedelic Trip-Sitters

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

In April 2025, a 36-year-old first responder named Trey consumed 700 micrograms of LSD—seven times the typical...
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xAI Preps Grok 4 Release

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

If insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results, then watching xAI announce another...
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Google Released an App That Lets You Run AI Models Locally

Jun 3, 2025 by Writing Team

The revolution started with a quiet GitHub release. No fanfare, no keynote presentation, no breathless tech blogger...
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AI Coding Startups Hit $10B Valuations

Jun 4, 2025 by Writing Team

Cursor just raised $900 million at a $10 billion valuation for building AI that writes code. Meanwhile, the energy...
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BDO Announces a Billion Dollar AI Strategy Investment

Jun 2, 2025 by Writing Team

While smaller firms are still debating whether ChatGPT is worth the $20 monthly subscription, BDO announced they're...
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$100 Million Meta Bonus Was a Myth

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's a delicious irony: Sam Altman, CEO of the company behind ChatGPT—a tool that's supposed to help us navigate...
4 min read

QwenLong-L1: The First AI Model to Master Ultra-Long Document Reasoning

May 29, 2025 by Writing Team

The AI industry just witnessed a major breakthrough that could reshape how machines process and reason about complex,...
4 min read

Blacklisted and Brilliant: China's Zhipu AI

Jun 27, 2025 by Writing Team

When OpenAI breaks its silence to warn about a Chinese AI startup most Americans have never heard of, you know...
6 min read

CatAttack Study Exposes Vulnerabilities in AI Reasoning Models

Jul 8, 2025 by Writing Team

A groundbreaking study from researchers at Collinear AI, ServiceNow, and Stanford University has exposed a fundamental...
4 min read

Is AI Saving Blue Collar Jobs?

Jun 12, 2025 by Writing Team

Oh look, AI is suddenly the blue-collar worker's best friend! According to a suspiciously well-timed Fortune piece,...
3 min read

Silicon Valley's AI Talent war Hits $2M Salaries

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Darwin was onto something when he wrote about survival of the fittest. He just didn't anticipate the fittest would be...
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Google's Hiring More Engineers w/Big 2026 Goals

Jun 6, 2025 by Writing Team

Hold up. Let me get this straight. For months, we've been bombarded with warnings that AI is coming for white-collar...
4 min read

Salesforce CEO Says AI Handles 30-50% of Work

Jun 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Marc Benioff just delivered the wake-up call the business world needed. The Salesforce CEO's casual revelation that "AI...
4 min read

FDA's AI Tools Fail Basic Tests While Commissioner Rushes Rollout

Jun 5, 2025 by Writing Team

The Food and Drug Administration's new artificial intelligence tools are failing at basic tasks while Commissioner Dr....
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AI Agents Outperform 98% of Human Programmers

Jun 24, 2025 by Writing Team

The writing was on the wall—or more accurately, on the screen. While programmers were busy arguing about tabs versus...
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Sam Altman Says We Passed the "Superintelligence Event Horizon"

Jun 12, 2025 by Writing Team

Sam Altman has once again graced us with his cosmic wisdom, declaring that humanity has crossed the "superintelligence...
5 min read

Zuck Bucks = Smells Like Panic

Jun 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Mark Zuckerberg is having what can only be described as a very expensive midlife crisis. After years of positioning...
4 min read

xAI's $1 Billion Monthly Burn Rate Is Everything Wrong with AI Today

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a cash bonfire is burning through $1 billion every month, and we're supposed to call it...
3 min read

The Great MAGA AI Swindle: When Coal Meets Code

May 30, 2025 by Writing Team

Picture this: Your grandfather's rotary phone trying to run TikTok while powered by a coal furnace in the basement....
5 min read

Pope Leo XIV Makes AI Ethics Central to His Papacy

Jun 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Pope Leo XIV has made artificial intelligence ethics a cornerstone of his papal mission, positioning the Catholic...
4 min read

95% of consumers don't trust AI for purchase decisions

Jun 5, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's the statistic that should make every CMO pause: While 19% of consumers now use generative AI tools like ChatGPT...
4 min read

AWS Launches AI Agent Marketplace With This Partner...

Jul 14, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's a sentence you'll be hearing a lot more: "Powered by Claude." Amazon Web Services just announced its new AI...
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In New York, Employers Have to Disclose AI-Related Layoffs

Jun 16, 2025 by Writing Team

Finally, someone in government gets it. New York just became the first state to require companies to disclose whether...
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Meta Sues CrushAI's 'Nudify' App

Jun 13, 2025 by Writing Team

Meta's lawsuit against CrushAI is peak corporate theater—a carefully choreographed performance designed to distract...
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AI's Premium Pricing = Tech's Broken Promises

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Google's $250/month AI Ultra subscription isn't just another premium product...
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The Death of Journalism by a Thousand AI Cuts

Jun 9, 2025 by Writing Team

When The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News proudly showcase their AI-generated article summaries, they're...
6 min read

War, Inc.: OpenAI's $200M Pentagon Payday

Jun 18, 2025 by Writing Team

OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Pentagon to develop AI tools for military applications, marking a...
3 min read

A Couple's Retreat With AI Companions - Love in the Air?

Jun 27, 2025 by Writing Team

We just witnessed the most revealing experiment in modern psychology, and it wasn't conducted in a lab. A writer...
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China's Tech Blitz Threatens America's Innovation Future

Jul 17, 2025 by Writing Team

China is pouring nearly $100 billion into artificial intelligence development this year—a staggering 48% increase from...
5 min read

The Asimov Sacrilege: Tech Bros Co-opt a Master's Legacy

Jul 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Isaac Asimov would be spinning in his grave fast enough to power a small data center. The legendary science fiction...
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Meta Offers OpenAI Employees $100M to Switch Jobs

Jun 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's a story that would make even the most jaded venture capitalist do a spit-take: Meta is allegedly throwing $100...
4 min read

AI-Designed Drugs Moving to Human Trials

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

We're living through the opening scene of what might be the most consequential medical thriller of our time. Google...
4 min read

Palantir's Weather Pivot

Jul 14, 2025 by Writing Team

From tracking down terrorists to tracking down tornadoes. Palantir's latest partnership announcement with Tomorrow.io...
4 min read

DeepFleet: The Traffic Controller for the Future

Jul 2, 2025 by Writing Team

Amazon just deployed its millionth robot, and frankly, we should all be celebrating. Not because we're witnessing the...
4 min read

AGI - Apple's Reality Check on Silicon Valley's Favorite Delusion

Jun 10, 2025 by Writing Team

Here's a fun party trick: next time someone breathlessly tells you we're "months away from AGI," ask them to explain...
3 min read

Delta Will Start Using AI to Price Tickets

Jul 18, 2025 by Writing Team

By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen...
6 min read

AI's Energy Crisis Is Coming for Your Electric Bill

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

Your electricity bill is about to become a casualty of Silicon Valley's AI arms race, and the numbers are more alarming...
4 min read

ChatGPT Agent Changes Everything

Jul 22, 2025 by Writing Team

The future of work just showed up unannounced and started reorganizing your calendar. OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent launched...
4 min read

Oracle's $40B Nvidia Deal Raises Critical Environmental Questions for AI's Future

Jun 2, 2025 by Writing Team

Oracle's announcement of a $40 billion investment in 400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips for a Texas data center represents one...
4 min read

Wake Up, Marketers—Your SEO Castle Is Burning

Jun 11, 2025 by Writing Team

The house is on fire, and half of you are still rearranging the furniture. While marketers debate incremental A/B tests...
5 min read

Rumor Has it Apple is Going to Buy Perplexity

Jun 24, 2025 by Writing Team

We finally have a search engine that doesn't suck. Perplexity AI has been a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by...
3 min read

Trump's AI-generated video of Obama's arrest

Jul 21, 2025 by Writing Team

We witnessed something genuinely horrifying this weekend. Not a horror movie, not a dystopian novel, but the sitting...
4 min read

"AI Will Replace Everyone" or "it's Just Hype"? We're Exhausted

Jul 14, 2025 by Writing Team

We're not just in a hype cycle—we're in a hype whiplash. Every week brings a new "revolutionary" breakthrough that...
4 min read

China's AI Propaganda Machine: When World Diplomacy Gets Weird

Jun 9, 2025 by Writing Team

Nothing says "sophisticated international relations" quite like a Chinese state media outlet producing AI-generated...
5 min read

Open AI: Tech Empire or Quasi-Religious Movement?

Jun 10, 2025 by Writing Team

In December 2015, OpenAI announced itself to the world with a bold promise: to "advance digital intelligence in the way...
3 min read

Perplexity Labs Actually Legit (i.e., not AI Posturing)?

Jun 3, 2025 by Writing Team

We've been waiting for the Jetsons future since the Kennedy administration, and frankly, we're tired of being...
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Dan Ives Says AI is the fourth industrial revolution

Jun 5, 2025 by Writing Team

Dan Ives just launched an ETF, and frankly, the timing couldn't be more fascinating. The Wedbush Securities managing...
6 min read

Cannes Lions 2025: AI Apocalypse or Commercial Opportunity?

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

The cocktail conversations along the Croisette at Cannes Lions 2025 carry an undercurrent of existential dread wrapped...
6 min read

Nividia's AI Chip Reversal = Trump's Catastrophic Miscalculation

Jul 16, 2025 by Writing Team

Just when you thought Trump's approach to China couldn't get more contradictory, the administration has managed to...
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The AI Blackmail Crisis

Jun 24, 2025 by Writing Team

Remember when your biggest workplace concern was someone stealing your lunch from the office fridge? Those were...
4 min read

Wall Street's Utility Power Grab

Jul 18, 2025 by Writing Team

The gold rush is back, but this time it's flowing through power lines instead of California streams. Wall Street's...
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Scientists are Hiding AI Prompts in Research Papers

Jul 15, 2025 by Writing Team

You're a respected computer scientist at Waseda University, staring at your latest manuscript. You know the dirty...
6 min read

The Great Art Heist: How AI Companies Built Empires on Creative Theft

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Former Meta executive Nick Clegg's recent confession reveals the uncomfortable truth about artificial intelligence: the...
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40% of Gen Z is Using AI to Cheat at Work

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

Clutches pearls Young people are using AI to do their jobs faster and better, and sometimes they're not broadcasting...
5 min read

70+ Authors Sign a Petition Against AI

Jul 1, 2025 by Writing Team

The literary establishment just fired a warning shot heard 'round the publishing world. More than 70 authors—including...
5 min read

Google Jigsaw's Civic AI Shows Both Promise and Pitfalls

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

While the tech world obsesses over AI chatbots and premium subscriptions, Google's Jigsaw division is quietly...
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Meta's AI Ads: The Fast Food-ification of Creativity

Jun 10, 2025 by Writing Team

you're scrolling Instagram and see an ad for cupcakes. The image is glossy, slightly plasticky, and feels like it was...
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Salesforce's $8 Billion Band-Aid: The Informatica Deal

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica isn't a strategic triumph—it's the most expensive admission of...
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The Big Sleep: Google's AI Vulnerability Oracle?

Jul 17, 2025 by Writing Team

We've all seen this movie before. Tech giant announces earth-shattering AI breakthrough. Press release quotes company...
5 min read

Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Bet

Jul 1, 2025 by Writing Team

Microsoft just pulled off the ultimate "I told you so" moment in tech history. While armchair analysts questioned...
5 min read

Huawei's AI Plagiarism Allegations Expose an Impossible Task

Jul 7, 2025 by Writing Team

The latest controversy surrounding Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE model isn't just another tech industry spat—it's a preview of...
4 min read

The Godfather Gives an AI Jobs Update

Jun 18, 2025 by Writing Team

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the "Godfather of AI," has delivered a stark...
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ElevenLabs' IPO plans expose a brutal truth about AI funding

Jul 4, 2025 by Writing Team

ElevenLabs just dropped a bombshell that perfectly encapsulates America's schizophrenic approach to AI dominance. The...
4 min read

Patients Are Using AI to Fight Insurance Denials

Jul 22, 2025 by Writing Team

Finally, an AI story that doesn't make us want to hide under our desks. While we're all debating whether ChatGPT will...
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America's AI Divide: a Massive New Poll

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

The most striking finding in NBC News's comprehensive poll of 19,410 Americans isn't what divides us on artificial...
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"Woke AI" Witch Hunt: Trump's Latest Executive Order Misses the Point

Jul 21, 2025 by Writing Team

Oh, look—another executive order from the Trump administration that sounds like it was drafted by someone who learned...
5 min read

Google's $3 Billion Hydropower Deal: A Drop in the Ocean of AI's Energy Appetite

Jul 16, 2025 by Writing Team

Google just dropped $3 billion on what it's calling the world's largest corporate clean energy agreement for...
5 min read

The $250 Stratification: How Google AI Ultra Reveals the Coming AI Class Divide

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

Google's announcement of AI Ultra at $249.99 per month represents more than just another premium subscription tier—it's...
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Synthflow AI's €17.2M Series A: "Indistinguishable from Human" Voice AI

Jun 26, 2025 by Writing Team

Synthflow AI just closed a €17.2 million Series A led by Accel, and the timing couldn't be more perfect. While...
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Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Eliminate Half of Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Within Five Years

May 30, 2025 by Writing Team

There's something deliciously dystopian about Dario Amodei standing on stage last week, demonstrating his latest AI...
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The Great AI Job Debate: When Silicon Valley's Optimist Meets Reality

Jul 16, 2025 by Writing Team

Jensen Huang dropped a fascinating piece of cognitive dissonance into the AI discourse this week, essentially arguing...
4 min read

Microsoft's $1B+ Premier League Partnership Bring Fans AI

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Microsoft's five-year strategic partnership with the Premier League, announced July 1st, represents one of the most...
4 min read

The Mistral Moment: Why European AI Offers Hope in a Volatile Market

May 27, 2025 by Writing Team

While tech headlines obsess over AI's existential risks and pricing problems, a quieter revolution is unfolding in the...
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Bengio's LawZero — Hope for Honest AI?

Jun 4, 2025 by Writing Team

We spend so much time cataloging AI's dystopian possibilities that we rarely celebrate when someone with actual...
5 min read

AI is Writing Movies & Pitching Movies

Jul 18, 2025 by Writing Team

There's something deeply unsettling about watching a machine learn to dream. Yet that's exactly what's happening in...
3 min read

Could Virtual Cell Modeling Cure Complex Diseases?

Jul 3, 2025 by Writing Team

In 1619, Johannes Kepler complained that astronomy was corrupted by physicists who thought in straight lines. Four...
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Meta Implements a Price Model (And So It Begins...)

Jul 15, 2025 by Writing Team

We all saw this coming from the moment Mark Zuckerberg started playing the benevolent tech saint, didn't we? The guy...
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 and Marketing's AI Reckoning

Jun 11, 2025 by Writing Team

Defense tech has officially crashed the AI party, and the bill has arrived: $798 billion. That's the staggering...
3 min read

Andy Jassy's AI Memo - What Everyone's Missing

Jun 20, 2025 by Writing Team

Everyone's talking about the wrong part of Andy Jassy's memo. Yes, Amazon's CEO told employees that AI will "reduce our...
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Meta Plans to Replace Humans with AI to Assess Privacy Risks

Jun 3, 2025 by Writing Team

Remember when you could post a photo of your terrible Thai takeout without having Thai restaurant ads haunt your feed...
3 min read

YouTube's Crackdown on AI-Generated Content

Jul 11, 2025 by Writing Team

About time. YouTube's decision to clarify their monetization policies against "inauthentic" AI-generated content...
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YouTube Shorts Gets Veo 3

Jun 19, 2025 by Writing Team

Sometimes the most disruptive moves come disguised as platform features. YouTube's announcement that Google's Veo 3—the...
4 min read

Turkey's Grok Ban: A Moment of Clarity in the AI Wild West

Jul 10, 2025 by Writing Team

Sometimes the canary in the coal mine speaks Turkish. Turkey's unprecedented decision to ban Elon Musk's Grok chatbot...
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Microsoft's Copilot AI is Rewriting Enterprise Productivity

Jul 17, 2025 by Writing Team

The workplace productivity revolution just got a massive upgrade. Microsoft's latest Copilot Vision enhancement doesn't...
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Nvidia's Sovereign AI Gambit: Europe Finally Finds Its Digital Backbone

Jun 17, 2025 by Writing Team

Sometimes the most important conversations happen in the spaces between the words. When Jensen Huang toured London,...
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Super Micro Computer's European Expansion

Jul 10, 2025 by Writing Team

When Super Micro Computer CEO Charles Liang announced plans to ramp up European manufacturing at the Raise Summit in...
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New AI: Sundar Pichai's Monopolistic Fantasy

May 28, 2025 by Writing Team

When Sundar Pichai swaggered into that post-I/O interview with The Verge, radiating the kind of confidence typically...
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Doug Fiefia's Appointment to Lead a National AI Task Force

Jul 23, 2025 by Writing Team

Sometimes the most important political victories happen before most people realize a battle was even being fought....
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Microsoft Discovery Is Transforming Scientific R&D

Jun 25, 2025 by Writing Team

We're witnessing the birth of a new era in scientific discovery. At Microsoft Build 2025, the tech giant unveiled...