OpenAI Loses Sora's Creator After Abandoning the Project
Bill Peebles leaves OpenAI after the company abandoned Sora video generation project, highlighting the human cost of strategic pivots.
Sam Altman's Orb Now Gatekeeping Romance
Tinder partners with Sam Altman's World to offer dating app boosts for users who verify their humanity through iris-scanning orbs.
Anthropic's Cybersecurity Pivot Shows How Principles Meet Pentagon Procurement
Anthropic's cybersecurity model Claude Mythos may repair relations with Trump admin after months of being labeled a security threat for refusing surveillance contracts.
Prediction Markets Want to Replace Journalism While Betting on Its Work
Prediction markets position themselves as journalism's replacement while depending entirely on reporters' work to function.
The Poetry Camera: When AI Becomes Your Aesthetic Conscience
The Poetry Camera replaces human aesthetic response with AI-generated verse, embodying the automation of wonder itself.
Dairy Queen Deploys AI to Upsell Ice Cream While Humans Hide in Manila
Dairy Queen deploys AI drive-thru chatbots built by Presto, continuing the trend of automation disguised as efficiency while human workers remain hidden overseas.
South Korean President Discovers Diplomacy Has Quote-Tweet Function
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung conducts foreign policy through X quote-tweets, sharing misleading video about Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Peak AI Question Nobody Wants to Answer
The Verge asks if AI has peaked after shoe company Allbirds manipulates stock price with AI pivot, but misses the real question about capability vs theater.
The Ballmer Strings: How Digital Oligarchs Reshape Media Through Selective Philanthropy
Connie Ballmer's $80M NPR gift with digital innovation strings reveals how tech oligarchs reshape media through conditional philanthropy.
Live Nation Responds to Monopoly Verdict by Acting Like a Monopoly
Live Nation's response to losing an antitrust case perfectly demonstrates the monopolistic behavior that got them sued in the first place.
Google Solves the Problem of Users Leaving Google
Google's AI Mode update keeps users inside Google when viewing sources, eliminating the last friction point in their search ecosystem capture.
OpenAI's Codex Now Controls Your Desktop Apps
OpenAI upgrades Codex to control desktop applications directly, competing with Anthropic's Claude in the race to replace human-computer interaction.