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Google's parent company Alphabet failed to hit sales targets, falling a 0.1 percent short of Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Google’s Finances Are in Chaos as the Company Flails at Unpopular AI

By Victor Tangermann

The long-time investors of Dogecoin have flooded to social media to lambast the majority owner's right-wing turn.

Fans of the Actual Dogecoin Cryptocurrency Are Disgusted With Elon Musk’s Antics

General Motors' robotaxi company Cruise has begun laying off half of its workforce, The Verge reports.

Advanced Transport

Failed Robotaxi Company Laying Off Workforce

By Victor Tangermann

A newly leaked document from the National Science Foundation reveals a long list of phrases which could find your research grant censored.

Leaked Decision Tree Shows How the Government Now Decides What Is Thought Crime

Tesla sales are falling off a cliff in key markets around the world — as its CEO Elon Musk continues working overtime to tank its reputation.

Elon’s Bizarre Behavior Is Killing Tesla’s Sales

By Victor Tangermann

Amid a potential purge, FBI agents who've worked on UFO cases are concerned that they may get caught up in the Donald Trump dragnet.

FBI Agents Investigating UFOs Afraid They’re About to Be Fired by Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

On the British islands of Turks and Caicos, residents and tourists have been left to deal with the aftermath of SpaceX's Starship explosion.

Island Littered With Debris After Elon Musk’s Starship Explodes Overhead

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has a history of publicly singling out specific government workers. Now, he's decrying basic transparency around DOGE as unlawful.

Elon Musk Says Naming Specific Government Workers Is Illegal, After Doing Exactly That Himself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Officials representing numerous aid groups are speaking out in response to the Trump administration's cuts to the USAID.

Official Warns That Elon Musk Is Poised to Kill “Thousands, If Not Hundreds of Thousands” of People

Just a few weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, unelected official Elon Musk has already been wildly successful in his deregulation quest.

Elon Musk Says It’s Time to Get Rid of All Regulations

By Noor Al-Sibai

An unusual number of great white sharks are turning up dead, and scientists are struggling to understand why.

Great White Sharks Are Suddenly Washing Up Dead With Swollen Brains

By Frank Landymore

A single mysterious benefactor is shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to help humans learn how to become an aquatic species.

Science & Energy

Mysterious Ultra-Wealthy Figure Building Deepwater Settlement for Human Habitation

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports, it will devastate the nuclear energy market.

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent that can perform "intensive" research for you all on its own, with a predictable but major caveat.

OpenAI Shows Off AI “Researcher” That Compiles Detailed Reports, Struggles to Differentiate “Information From Rumors”

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump's dubious meme coin just keeps sliding. But he may have already gotten what he was looking for.

The Value of Trump’s Meme Coin Keeps Plummeting

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs hit US-based AI chipmaker Nvidia's stock, wreaking havoc with the AI industry he claims to support.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Tariffs Are Wreaking Havoc on the AI Industry He Claims to Support

By Victor Tangermann

Claire "Grimes" Boucher seems close to condemning her billionaire ex — though of course, she never comes right out and does it.

Grimes Slams “Power-Hungry Warlords” Who “Tricked” Her

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has gained access to the government's payment system and has declared his intent to shut down any flow of cash he doesn't like.

Elon Musk Says DOGE Will Now Shut Down Government Payments He Doesn’t Like

By Frank Landymore

A bizarre AI-obsessed group may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart.

Artificial Intelligence

Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using "artificial photosynthesis."

Chinese Astronauts Create Rocket Fuel in Space Using “Artificial Photosynthesis”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.

OpenAI’s AI Agent Has to Be Monitored Nonstop to Catch Its Constant Screwups

By Frank Landymore

A Chinese company has unveiled a massive new 85-foot electric bus, said to be a world's first in transit infrastructure.

Advanced Transport

China Unveils Comically Gigantic 85-Foot Electric Bus

While Sam Bankman-Fried rots away behind bars for fraud, his parents are making the rounds in Trumpworld to plant the seeds for a pardon.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mommy and Daddy Have a New Plan: Suck Up to Trump Until He Pardons Her Beautiful Boy

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and Millennials are way ahead of the game.

Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pro-Israel bot keeps going rogue and randomly criticizing Israel and the United States for the ongoing war in Palestine.

Artificial Intelligence

Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former DEA officer is going away for a long time after admitting to swapping bricks of seized cocaine with 3D-printed decoys.

Florida Cop Headed to Prison for 3D Printing Fake Drugs and Switching Them With Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent lawsuit, Uber says that it's the victim of a huge, fake car accident racket to keep it on the hook for medical payouts.

Uber Says Drivers Are Staging Fake Car Accidents to Steal Its Money

By Frank Landymore

A senior Treasury Department official announced his resignation after being hounded by Elon Musk's DOGE allies.

Elon Musk Just Pulled Something Unbelievably Sketchy at the US Treasury

By Frank Landymore

AI executives, along with US lawmakers, are terrified of Chinese AI competing with American tech companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI

By Frank Landymore

After repeatedly insisting for over a decade that Tesla was on the verge of FSD, Elon Musk has finally admitted that it's not happening.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Finally Admits That Teslas Don’t Have What It Takes for Full Self-Driving

By Noor Al-Sibai

A breach in an email server setup by Musk's lackeys just allowed over 13,000 government email addresses to be overrun with spam.

Trump Broke the Federal Email System and Government Employees Got Blasted With Astonishingly Vulgar Messages

DeepSeek's databases were left wide-open for anyone to look into its user chatlogs and company infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Think Anyone in the AI Industry Has Any Idea What They’re Doing, It Appears That DeepSeek Just Accidentally Leaked Its Users’ Chats

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a space rock, an estimated 200 feet in length, that they say just may be headed for Earth.

Scientists Say If We’re Extremely Lucky, This Asteroid May Put Us Out of Our Misery

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's net profits for the fourth quarter of 2024 plunged by over 70 percent compared to the same period the year before.

Tesla’s Profits Are Falling Off a Cliff as Elon Musk Self-Immolates

By Frank Landymore

Alibaba claims that the latest version of its Qwen AI model has beaten out DeepSeek's V3, and OpenAI's o1.

Another Chinese AI Company Says It’s Beaten OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Waymo is looking to encourage its customers to "add a 'tip'" — even though there's no driver behind the wheel.

Advanced Transport

Waymo Raises Eyebrows With Experimental Feature to “Tip” Its Driverless Cars

By Victor Tangermann

White House advisor Elon Musk has a new priority: the delivery of a pair of luxurious Boeing 747s, so he and Trump can jet around in style.

Elon Musk Teams Up With Boeing to Rush Production of New Air Force One

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump responded to the rapid success of DeepSeek, whose low-cost AI model embarasses the president's behemoth Stargate deal.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Responds After DeepSeek Humiliates His Splashy AI Announcement

By Frank Landymore

DeepSeek has released an image generation AI model that rivals Dall-E3 just a week after stunning Silicon Valley with its R1 chatbot.

After Exploding American AI Industry With ChatGPT Competitor, DeepSeek Releases Image Generator Aimed at Beating DALL-E and Stable Diffusion

By Frank Landymore

AI totally "crashing" everyone's wages is a necessary stepping stone towards a better future, argues billionaire Marcus Andreessen.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages

By Frank Landymore

While it was stopped at a red light, a crowd of over a dozen people set upon a Waymo robotaxi and badly vandalized it.

Advanced Transport

Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb

By Frank Landymore

Since Donald Trump's inauguration, his potentially-scammy meme coin has plummeted in value — which may have been the point.

Trump’s Meme Coin Is Down 64 Percent From Its High

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to its website, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek had to limit user registrations after being hit with "large-scale malicious attacks."

Artificial Intelligence

Mega-Hyped Chinese AI App DeepSeek Says It’s Been Hit by “Large-Scale Malicious Attacks”

By Victor Tangermann

A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Signs of Life Deep Inside the Earth

In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is literally ahead of the pack as it prepares for the world's first human-robot race.

China Is Hosting The World’s First Foot Race Between Humans and Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers say they've detected a mysterious type of signal known as a fast radio burst coming from an ancient, dead galaxy.

Strange Signal Coming From Dead Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The emissions produced by AI datacenters is likely far worse than believed because of how companies report their sustainability data.

Artificial Intelligence

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

By Frank Landymore

Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti accidentally discovered a "remote adhesive" that acts like Spider-Man style web shooters.

Science & Energy

Scientist Testing Spider-Man-Style Web Shooters He Accidentally Made in Lab

By Victor Tangermann

A new executive order appears to grant DOGE leader Elon Musk sweeping access to unclassified data held by US government agencies.

Trump Gives Elon Musk Access to All Unclassified Data in the US Government

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Trump's AI ambitions are becoming clearer, and their consequences may spell disaster for the American labor force.

Artificial Intelligence

A Key Trump Goal Emerges: Replacing Human Jobs With AI

New Yorkers are seeing huge quality of life wins from congestion pricing so far, a great sign for people-first transit policy.

Advanced Transport

Manhattan Shows Huge Reduction in Car Crashes After Instituting Congestion Pricing

If for some reason adding a pinch of anything to your meal was too intimidating, there's now an AI gizmo to address that.

Check Out This Giant AI-Powered “Spice Dispenser” for Dorks Too Timid to Properly Season Their Food

By Frank Landymore

An AI gun detection system appears to have been a massive waste of money after it failed to detect the weapon used in a school shooting.

Artificial Intelligence

School’s $1 Million AI Gun Detection System Fails to Detect Weapon Before Fatal School Shooting

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter's financials are still looking pretty dire — as owner Elon Musk himself admitted in a January email to staff reviewed by the WSJ.

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Admits Defeat on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Behind the scenes, some of Trump's staffers are incensed at Musk for breaking rank and blasting the president's $500 billion AI deal.

Trump’s Staff Have Had It With Elon Musk’s Insubordination

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump's second administration is all-in on artificial intelligence — just not the woke kind.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Woke AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's top copyright lawyer has fled the company in the middle of a heated AI lawsuit thanks to Zuckerberg's right-wing turn.

Meta’s Top AI Lawyer Quits in Disgust

During a big meeting of billionaires, President Donald Trump said he plans to use his office to literally provide power to AI datacenters.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Says AI Is So Important He’ll Build New Power Plants Attached to Datacenters

By Noor Al-Sibai

Antivirus guru and erstwhile tax outlaw John McAfee is back from the dead, and he wants to sell you a meme coin.

John McAfee Springs Back From the Grave as an AI, Promoting a New Meme Coin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Asked to answer in one word the ideology it would most closely relate to Musk's onstage gesture, Grok didn't hesitate.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Analyzes His Nazi Salute

By Frank Landymore

Tech billionaire Sam Altman stands stoically with his back turned to a larger, laughing Elon Musk

Trump Showing Love to Sam Altman Is Clearly Driving Elon Musk Into a Jealous Fury

The "Sieg Heil" heard 'round the world has made its way to Germany, where activists are using that now-infamous image at Tesla's Gigafactory.

Huge Image of Musk’s Nazi Salute Projected Onto German Gigafactory

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stargate is receiving a ton of funding from an Abu Dhabi-based investment company called MGX, which has ties to the UAE's royal family.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s $500 Billion AI Deal Includes Funding by UAE Royal Family Linked to Astonishing Number of Scandals, Including Human Torture

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's edgelord tendencies are alienating even his defenders in the Jewish advocacy world amid his latest Nazi fiasco.

Jewish Leaders Horrified as Elon Musk Tweets Barrage of Holocaust Jokes

By Noor Al-Sibai