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Artificial intelligence, model releases, and the second-order effects rippling through every industry.

AI Toys Are Reshaping Childhood, and Regulators Are Just Now Catching Up

AI companions for children are getting smarter, more intimate, and harder to regulate — and the developmental stakes may be higher than anyone is admitting.

Trump's Reported Plan to Fire FDA Commissioner Makary Signals Deeper Regulatory Turbulence

Oracle's Remote Worker Loophole Leaves Laid-Off Employees With Almost Nothing

The Strait of Hormuz War Game Where Nobody Wins and That's the Point

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AI Fatigue Is Real, and It's Reshaping How We Think About the Technology

AI Fatigue Is Real, and It's Reshaping How We Think About the Technology

AI is everywhere and adoption is rising, but so is a quiet, pervasive unease that could reshape the technology's future more than any backlash ever would.

A Lawsuit Warns That DHS Is Building a DNA Surveillance Net Around Immigration Dissent

A new lawsuit argues DHS is wiring a DNA database into ICE's surveillance machine, with consequences that could reach far beyond immigration enforcement.

Ramp's Valuation Sprint to $40B Reveals How AI Finance Tools Are Repricing Enterprise Software

Ramp is reportedly raising $750 million at a $40 billion valuation just six months after closing at $32 billion, and the speed of that jump reveals something bigger.

ShinyHunters Hits Canvas Again, Exposing Millions of Students' Data

Sakana AI's 7B Conductor Model Teaches Itself to Orchestrate GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini

Sakana AI's 7B Conductor Model Teaches Itself to Orchestrate GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini

The Blind Spot in AI Agent Security: How Test Files Became a Trojan Horse

The Blind Spot in AI Agent Security: How Test Files Became a Trojan Horse

Pronto's $18 Billion Bet: How India's Instant Service Economy Found Its Moment

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SpaceX Is Quietly Retiring the Rocket That Built Its Empire

The Falcon 9 is the most successful rocket ever built. SpaceX is already planning life without it, and the consequences reach far beyond one launch site.

Google's Gemma 4 Speed Trick Could Reshape How AI Models Are Deployed at Scale

Google's MTP Drafters promise 3x faster AI inference for Gemma 4, and the ripple effects on cost, design, and competition could be substantial.

AI and the Architecture of Democracy: Transformation or Disruption?

AI could amplify democratic participation or hollow it out — and the difference depends on choices most governments haven't made yet.

Mistral's Voxtral Targets the Expressivity Gap That Has Haunted Voice AI for Years

Mistral's Voxtral combines autoregressive and flow-matching architectures to tackle the expressivity gap in voice AI, with consequences far beyond audio quality.

Reddit's App Wall Is a Masterclass in Forced Migration — and a Warning About the Open Web

Reddit is deliberately breaking its own mobile website to force app installs — and the consequences reach far beyond user annoyance.

OpenAI's Sold-Out Party Becomes a Codex Access Experiment for 8,000 Developers

OpenAI turned 8,000 rejected party applicants into a month-long Codex stress test, and the data it collects may be worth more than the event itself.

American Express Is Building the Payment Rails for AI Agents — With Strings Attached

Amex's new ACE developer kit uses intent contracts and single-use tokens to constrain AI spending — but the black box problem remains unsolved.

Uber's CEO Says AI Will Replace Drivers and Maybe Himself. He Might Be Right.

Uber's CEO says AI will replace his drivers and eventually himself. The real story is what disappears with them.

Three Ordinary Exposures, One Catastrophic Infection: The Biology of Amoebic Death

A man died from a rare amoebic infection after three unremarkable risk factors converged — and the real warning is how quietly ordinary vulnerabilities can become fatal.

How Nintendo Stood Up to Amazon and What It Reveals About Retail Power

Reggie Fils-Aimé revealed Nintendo once cut off Amazon entirely over a deal that could have broken the law, and the story still matters today.

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