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A DOGE flunky was in for a surprise when learning that the federal workforce is full of dedicated civil servants who run it like a tight ship.

This DOGE Operative Got a Huge Surprise Once He Was Actually Inside the Government

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 21-year-old went from viral sensation to startup founder after getting kicked out of Columbia for creating an AI that helps you cheat.

Artificial Intelligence

Columbia Student Kicked Out for Creating AI to Cheat, Raises Millions to Turn It Into a Startup

By Noor Al-Sibai

A notorious AI founder went viral after claiming that a firecracker prank was actually an attempt on his life.

Paranoid AI Founder Reportedly Thought He Was Being Shot At After Hearing Innocuous Noise

Once a rising star of AI automation, the startup 11x is now facing new allegations of extremely sketchy behavior.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

The number one alarm app in the world is serving ads to drowsy sleepers, revealing the data-hungry nature of the app market.

Alarm App Demands You Watch Advertisement to Hit “Snooze” Button

Gig economy platform YoungOne is allegedly charging workers an extra fee to receive their wages faster than a month.

Vile Startup Charges Gig Workers to Get Paid on Time

By Frank Landymore

No Solicitors: Two salesmen, one a human and the other a robot, walk merrily in parallel with each other.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back

Science & Energy

Fusion Startup Conducts Strange Ceremony Involving Woman With Wires Coming Out of Her Back

By Noor Al-Sibai

A unique startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror.

Startup Says It’ll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

In Latest Sign of Dot Com Style Bubble, Startup “Hires” Goofy AI Version of Alan Turing

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the speculative bubble surrounding AI begins to burst, the people behind them — and their financiers — are starting to feel the burn.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report reveals the chaos behind the startup Stability AI, including an incident where its now-ex CEO disappeared in his pajamas.

Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI CEO Disappeared in His Pajamas in Bizarre Incident

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just six months after opening a cocktail lounge in its San Francisco offices, the startup Expensify is shutting down its fancy company bar.

Startup Admits Office Cocktail Bar Wasn’t a Good Idea

By Noor Al-Sibai

Less than a year into the AI boom and startups are already having to grapple with what may become an industry reckoning.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

From fundraising more than $100 million to hemorrhaging top talent the firm that makes Stable Diffusion has had a heck of a year.

Artificial Intelligence

The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be Crumbling Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

An internal investigation at the unicorn social media startup IRL has revealed that "95 percent" of the app's users were "automated or bots."

Social Media App Shuts Down After Admitting 95% of Users Were Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Partiful event invite startup has admitted that it won't be turning a profit with investor money — but will be partying on regardless.

Party Startup Says It Has Zero Plans to Make Any Money With Investors’ Funds

By Noor Al-Sibai

JPMorgan says it was tricked to pay $175 million for a startup that had fabricated millions of users. File under: nothing's real anymore!

JPMorgan Says Startup Tricked It Into an Acquisition by Cooking Up Millions of Fake Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is back, with a property management crypto startup. The confusing part? Its crypto can't pay rent.

WeWork Guy’s Apartment Rental Company Plans to Launch Crypto That Can’t Be Used to Pay Rent

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another of Neuralink's cofounders has left the neurotechnology company amid an apparent slow exodus of the Elon Musk venture's executives.

Neuralink Cofounder Leaves as Brain Company Descends Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

New Statesman makes the case that a handful of ventures are actually starting to hone in on tech that could provide significant life extension.

Researcher Predicts Anti-Aging Drug “by the Time It’s Relevant for Me”

By Jon Christian

A laundry delivery startup called Cleanly attempted to help medical workers clean their clothes. Instead, it kept losing all of their stuff.

A Laundry Delivery Startup Keeps Losing Doctors’ Clothes

By Dan Robitzski

Motif Ingredients is providing the building blocks of fake meat, taking complex R&D out of the hands of creatives bring meat alternatives to market.

New Startup Is Selling the Building Blocks of Fake Meat

A new investigation reveals that out of 48 healthcare startups that raised $1 billion, over half have barely published any research to support their claims.

Health & Medicine

Health Startups’ Dark Secret: Most Don’t Publish Peer-Reviewed Research

By Dan Robitzski

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Out of 43 Blockchain Startups, Zero Have Delivered Products

By Dan Robitzski

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities

How Data Transparency Is Helping Us Build Future Cities

By Futurism Creative

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How Women-Startup Founders Are Building Better Cities [Sponsored]

By Futurism Creative

Scooters Are Definitely Not the Future of Transportation

Advanced Transport

Scooters Are Definitely Not the Future of Transportation

By Alexandra Ossola

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Science & Energy

MIT’s “Innovation Orchard” is Investing $200 Million in Tough Tech Startups