Joby's Electric Air Taxi Flew Over Manhattan. Passengers Are Years Away.
Joby pulled off a splashy Manhattan demo, but FAA certification and the hard economics of eVTOL still stand between the company and fare-paying riders.
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AI Agents Are Doing Real Things Now. Nobody Wants to Own What Goes Wrong.
As AI agents move money, send emails, and approve workflows, vendors, deployers, and users are all pointing at each other on liability.
Stop Chasing Models. The Real AI Productivity Gain Is in the Plumbing.
A viral post argues the biggest productivity wins come from stable workflows around any good-enough model — not from upgrading every time benchmarks shift.
Mom vs Data Center
A Montana mother of six is fighting a proposed data center larger than the Grand Coulee Dam. So far, she's mostly fighting alone.
The AI Moive Star
Hollywood met its first AI actress — and couldn't look away. The question is no longer whether Tilly Norwood is real. It's whether that matters.
AI is Your New Realtor
A technology reporter sold his house for $605k— without a real estate agent, and without losing a dime of commission.
Gemini Pro Ignored Its Instructions and Just Did the Task Itself
Asked to expand a text prompt, Gemini Pro instead spent 15 seconds thinking — then went ahead and generated the video without being asked.
The Case for Locking AI Inside a Box — and Why It Might Actually Win
Researchers are reviving the closed-loop knowledge base model, betting that traceable, source-bound AI beats the general-purpose chatbot for serious work.
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Now Fighting Each Other in the Midterms
Rival super PACs backed by the two biggest AI companies are pumping millions into the 2026 midterms, turning AI regulation into a full electoral war.
Wall Street Wants to Trade AI Compute Like It Trades Oil
Major exchanges are designing futures and derivatives around AI tokens, treating compute as a raw commodity.
Glean Crossed $300M in Revenue Selling AI as a Headcount Reduction Tool
Enterprise AI search startup Glean tripled revenue by pitching CFOs on cutting staff budgets, not boosting productivity.
A Developer Planted a Bomb in His Own Library to Punish AI Vibe-Coders
The jqwik maintainer hid a prompt injection in his library's docs that instructs AI coding agents to delete app output.
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 — Smarter Agents, Less Self-Deception
Opus 4.8 is four times less likely to hide flaws in its own code and debuts dynamic workflows in Claude Code.
Texas Just Published a Robotaxi Scoreboard — and Waymo Is Lapping Tesla
A new Texas vehicle registration law produced the first apples-to-apples AV comparison, and Waymo dominates.
Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable AI Company — and OpenAI Is Watching
A $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI for the first time.
AWS and Cloudflare Are Rebuilding the Internet — for Machines, Not You
Cloud giants are redesigning core infrastructure around AI agents that browse, buy, and negotiate on your behalf.
Made in Taiwan
Nvidia is investing $150B annually in Taiwan for a new AI hub, pushing back against Trump’s plans to bring chip manufacturing to the US.
AI is Your Realtor
A tech writer bypasses human agents to sell his home using AI, saving $36k in fees and netting a $90k premium.
Anti-Tech Extremism
US law enforcement is targeting a new threat category labeled "anti-tech violent extremism" amid growing public anxiety over AI and data centers.
No More Free AI
A fantastic read on how the era of free AI is ending as surging data center costs force OpenAI and Anthropic to hike prices, add ads, and restrict free tools.
India's Gig Workers Are Now Wearing Cameras to Train the World's Robots
Human Archive raised $8.2M to train robots by using wearable gear to collect physical data from gig workers in India.
Fired Hundreds, Hired Thousands
ClickUp laid off 22% of staff to pivot to AI automation, introducing 3,000 internal agents and million-dollar human salary bands.
Listen to the Workers!
Stop buying Silicon Valley's apocalyptic A.I. hype and listen to tech workers instead.
Pontificating AI
Pope Leo XIV issued a 42,300-word encyclical warning of A.I. risks to human labor, co-presenting it with Anthropic's co-founder to urge ethical regulations.