“Staid.” That’s how the Washington Post recently described the job market — not specifically in crisis, but the labor force is shrinking and hiring is relatively anemic compared to the incredible growth seen after the ebbing of COVID. The unemployment rate in the U.S. ticked up from the 3-4 percent range in 2022-2024 and settled…
Patrick Bewley’s X feed was normally filled with posts about leather three-ways and clips of pool-house erotica. The gay OnlyFans star, known as Daddy Patrick, had decided to get into the adult industry at age 60, and in under two years his followers on X swelled to 132,000. But in April, his feed suddenly became…
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who…
98% of mid-market companies have discussed whether to involve AI in boardroom decisions, according to a survey conducted by Board Intelligence. The Summer 2026 edition of the Board Value Index canvassed just over 400 board directors, CEOs and CFOs in the UK, the US, Scandinavia and the Middle East, with the corresponding companies having annual…
A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.” They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul, and helped create a billion-dollar industry out of kratom, which has pain-relieving effects they…
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has found what it was looking for — on its own, without human analysts on the ground. The milestone, which occurred in April, marks the first reported use of a vision-language model in orbit, and offers a glimpse of how AI could fundamentally change what space-based sensors…
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Your aging iPhone will feel a little more responsive once you download iOS 27 later this year. At least, that’s Apple’s claim. At its developer keynote at this year’s WWDC, the company said its next mobile operating system update brings several platform stability improvements that will make older devices, as far back as the iPhone…
Something strange is happening in tech right now. Companies are posting record profits and revenue while laying off tens of thousands of people, citing AI as the official explanation. So far this year, there have been an estimated 363 layoffs at tech companies this year, affecting nearly 150,000 people — a pace of about 974…
EV manufacturer XPENG will begin the global rollout of its VLA 2.0 autonomous driving system next year, the AI-powered model marking an important step in the company’s efforts to develop driverless cars. Unfortunately, this tech won’t be arriving in the U.S., with high tariffs continuing to keep the Chinese automakers out of the country. SEE…
