The AI bubble debate keeps asking the wrong question. Every few weeks, someone important says the word “bubble” out loud. Sam Altman said it. Jeff Bezos said it. Jensen Huang says the opposite, on a
In February 2026, a robot dog named Bits paid for its own electricity. No human approved the transaction. No card was swiped. The charge went out as a USDC nano-payment, settled on-chain, agent to charger,
Parents used to worry about who could see the first-day-of-school photo. Now they need to worry about what AI can do to it. A new wave of “nudify” apps turns an ordinary, fully clothed photo
Alibaba’s earnings report this week reads as two companies stapled together. One is dying slowly. The other is eating everything in its path. The headline numbers look contradictory. Net income collapsed 76% year-over-year to 10.54
Every major AI lab ships a model with a safety card, a red-teaming report, and a usage policy nobody reads. Schools got none of that. There’s no changelog. No patch notes. No onboarding flow for
Relay shut down this week. Automation startups fold constantly, so that part isn’t news. What deserves attention is where its founder landed: not another startup, not a stealth AI lab, but Google’s Chrome team. That
Wynd Kaufmyn spent her last free evening tailoring an old pair of jeans. It was her 69th birthday. The next morning, she walked into San Francisco’s Hall of Justice. She turned herself in to serve
Everyone keeps calling China’s open-weight AI models “generous.” That framing misses the point entirely. At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this year, Xi Jinping pitched low-cost, open-source AI as a gift to the
Every AI provider racing to comply with the EU’s new transparency rules faces the same design puzzle. How do you tag machine-generated text without wrecking the writing itself? Anthropic answered that question in a company
A tech founder in Los Angeles stands next to himself. Not a photo. Not a video call. A hologram, built from his own recorded voice and mannerisms, that answers questions at trade show booths while