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Don't panic about Moltbook

The rise of a social network for AI agents exposes how far autonomous AI has come — and how far it still has to go

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The AI race, interrupted

Anthropic’s top AI models were pulled offline after a Trump administration export control order. Here’s what happened

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The hidden cost of your points

Credit card swipe fees hit a record $198 billion in 2025, intensifying debate over who really pays for rewards programs

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The government wants a piece of the AI book

The Trump administration is weighing AI equity stakes and a public wealth fund that could send returns to Americans, and critics see potential bailout

17.06.2026 20

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The future of AI has nothing to do with chatbots

AI researchers believe the industry's fixation on large language models has created a kind of tunnel vision obscuring the path to truly intelligent...

11.02.2026 10

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Lab meat fights back

Seven states have banned a product most people couldn't buy if they tried. Now the industry is fighting back

09.02.2026 10

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The NFL has a playbook for AI

As the Super Bowl kicks off, the NFL’s AI-powered digital athlete program is quietly saving teams hundreds of millions by helping keep players on...

08.02.2026 10

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AI meets ICE

Agencies at every level of government are buying AI-powered surveillance tools. These tools increasingly watch everyone, and not always accurately

04.02.2026 30

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Mortgages won't fix what ails housing

Economists keep repeating a message that nobody seems to want to hear: Financing gimmicks can't solve a problem that's fundamentally about math

02.02.2026 10

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Can we just be normal about AI?

New research challenges the idea that AI will either save or destroy humanity, arguing that artificial intelligence will reshape society gradually

28.01.2026 10

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America builds trucks

The affordable small vehicles that once filled American driveways have been replaced by a parade of increasingly enormous trucks and compact SUVs

26.01.2026 10

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The problem with your new AI doctor

OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to become America's health advisor, and not everyone's buying into it

21.01.2026 20

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The marijuana business is growing up

A new policy targets the specific financial chokepoints that have kept a $30 billion industry operating like a shadow economy

20.01.2026 20

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AI is cheating on the test

"Scheming" behaviors are showing up in tests, and the models are getting better at something troubling — knowing when they're being watched

14.01.2026 30

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When everybody becomes a gig worker

More Americans are turning to gig work even as traditional hiring slows. And as ubiquitous as gig work feels now, it’s likely going to grow

12.01.2026 20

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AI web browsers are here. They're not safe

AI-powered browsers can be tricked into stealing your data. The companies building them have decided that's a risk worth taking

08.01.2026 30

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Silicon Valley turned aging into a bug to fix. Billions followed

In the longevity industry, the goal isn't just measuring your body. It's reprogramming it to age more slowly

05.01.2026 30

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AI hacking is here — and it will only get more dangerous

Some AI tools are becoming autonomous operators capable of executing attacks at speeds and scales that human hackers simply cannot match

31.12.2025 20

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The wine business is in crisis

The wine industry faces an existential threat that cuts across price points and prestige levels, supply and demand

29.12.2025 30

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AI ads are here — and they're invisible

For as much information as tech companies already have on us, the AI tools being rolled out could know us as intimately as friends

23.12.2025 10

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There's one renewable that Trump won't cut

Geothermal tax credits will remain intact for years, giving developers policy certainty that the rest of the renewables industry can only dream about

22.12.2025 20

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Apple's messy AI win

What looked like falling behind now looks smart: Apple skipped the AI arms race and the massive spending that comes with it

17.12.2025 10

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America's video game boom is stalling out

The industry now finds itself in an unusual position of selling plenty of devices to play games on — but struggling to sell the games themselves

15.12.2025 20

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A supersonic jet startup is now selling turbines to power AI data centers

A new deal reflects how desperate the AI industry has become for power. Tech companies are projected to spend $400 billion on AI infrastructure this...

11.12.2025 20

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Trump is slashing science funding. Tech billionaires are stepping in with AI

Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are trying to recreate what capitalism destroyed. The key difference is artificial intelligence

10.12.2025 20

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How space became the hottest market on Earth (and off)

While Starlink and Katy Perry capture the public attention, companies are quietly building infrastructure for sustained commercial operations in space

08.12.2025 20

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AI companies fail existential safety test as capabilities race ahead

A sweeping safety review shows leading AI companies advancing toward superhuman systems without guardrails to stop catastrophic failure

03.12.2025 8

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The myth of AI independence

Countries are pursuing sovereignty by making themselves more dependent on the very foreign companies they claim to be protecting themselves from

03.12.2025 20

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TikTok’s next conquest

Algorithmic persuasion is happening millions of times daily, transforming TikTok from entertainment platform to shopping powerhouse

01.12.2025 20

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ChatGPT sparked an AI arms race. 3 years later, nobody's winning

Even as Gemini 3 steals the spotlight, the race for AI dominance is starting to look like musical chairs

26.11.2025 30

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A vibe check on vibe coding

A playful term has become both Silicon Valley's most hyped programming methodology — and a cautionary tale

26.11.2025 10

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AI toys are here. Don't trust them

A.I. AI toys are here. Don't trust them The concerns that have plagued AI systems elsewhere don't disappear just because the technology is...

26.11.2025 20

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First it was Ozempic. Now the peptide gold rush is here — and it's dangerous

Ozempic changed everything: Millions of Americans who have discovered the transformative power of one peptide are chasing their next fix

10.11.2025 30

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Wall Street wants to go 24/7

A shift toward round-the-clock trading represents the most fundamental change to market structure since electronic trading replaced the trading floor

03.11.2025 20

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OpenAI abandons the pretense

The ChatGPT maker's long-awaited restructuring changes everything

29.10.2025 10

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How Bill Gates wrote the playbook for AI

The Gates doctrine of capture the market first and negotiate with the wreckage later built Microsoft. Now it's building the AI industry

28.10.2025 20

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The Panama Canal has bigger problems than Trump

While Trump wages his campaign over port ownership, the canal faces threats no amount of geopolitical pressure can fix

27.10.2025 30

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ChatGPT has come to its YouTube moment

Big Tech's familiar pattern is repeating itself in building first, regulating later, and hoping a sanitized kids' version can address parents'...

22.10.2025 20

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Trump is trying to kill solar. But solar keeps shining

With electricity grids straining and rates climbing, utilities are under pressure to add capacity quickly and cheaply. Solar delivers on both counts

20.10.2025 20

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AI and quantum computing are converging

It's less a merger than a mutual assistance pact between technologies that excel at different problems. The benefits flow in both directions

15.10.2025 20

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The EV race is basically over. China won

The gap between Chinese and American EVs keeps widening. Trump's tariffs won't change that. They'll just make Americans the last to know what they're...

14.10.2025 20

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The movie 'Her' imagined perfect AI companions. We built manipulative ones instead

Scarlett Johansson's Samantha feels less like science fiction than fantasy because no company would build her that way. The business model won't allow...

12.10.2025 20

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The AI data gold rush is over

Publishers are suing. Cloudflare has turned into the internet's bouncer. And AI companies are discovering they may have poisoned their own well

08.10.2025 20

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America goes gambling

A sports betting explosion has blurred the lines between gambling and investing. The rapid expansion has created unintended consequences

05.10.2025 20

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The problem with age-gating the internet

Part of the challenge lies in the inherent difficulty of teaching algorithms to make nuanced decisions about content

29.09.2025 10

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The penny stock is having a moment again

Penny stock IPOs are surging to levels not seen since the 1980s

24.09.2025 10

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Silicon Valley wants to escape the ‘Nvidia tax’

While Nvidia chips will continue dominating AI training, more new chips for inference could save companies tens of billions of dollars

22.09.2025 30

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Quantum computing is coming — and Corporate America isn't ready

Most companies are about as prepared for quantum computing's arrival as Blockbuster was for Netflix

15.09.2025 30

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Microsoft and OpenAI have reached a deal that could pave the way for the AI startup to go public

Oracle isn’t auditioning a clever app. It’s proposing an AI grid, and — for the moment — Wall Street is willing to finance the build

12.09.2025 10

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The AI bubble fears are getting worse. Wall Street doesn't want to talk about it

Wall Street finds itself caught between optimism and anxiety, deploying different vocabularies depending on which side of the ledger it's addressing

08.09.2025 20

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