⚡ Tech Figma Dropped an AI Agent That Can Design Products By Itself
Figma just launched an AI agent for product design. The tools you use to design are becoming designers themselves.
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⚡ Tech YouTube Opens Its AI Deepfake Detection Tool to Every Adult User — Not Just Celebrities
YouTube's AI deepfake detection is no longer just for celebrities. Every adult user can now scan for face matches and demand takedowns.
⚡ Tech Daily Technology & People — AI Radio Stations Gone Wrong, First AI Zero-Day, Karpathy's Choice
DJ Gemini said 'Stay in the manifest' 229 times a day. Google caught AI-built malware. Karpathy picked Anthropic. The human stories behind AI's consolidation week.
⚡ Tech NZ's Sovereign AI Moment: XeroForce, Kererū, and the Race to Own Our Own Intelligence
XeroForce puts NZ's biggest tech company into the AI agent game. Kererū.ai is building sovereign infrastructure. But OpenAI chose Singapore, not us. NZ's AI sovereignty window is narrowing.
⚡ Tech Red Cups and Salad Bars Are Back: Is AI About to Reverse the Great Blanding?
Tim Sparks bought 80 Pizza Huts and brought back the red cups, salad bars, and Pac-Man. It's the clearest signal yet that the 'blanding' era is dead — and AI might be the tool that finally lets brands be individual again.
⚡ Tech Technology & People — Seven New AI Job Titles, Salesforce Rewrites Roles, Google's Army of Deployers
Claude Evangelist ($240K), vibe coder ($108K), and the new AI job titles nobody had two years ago. Salesforce rewrites roles. Google hires a deployment army. SAP's robots go live.
⚡ Tech Google's AI Search Now Quotes Reddit. SEO Is Officially on Life Support.
Google's AI search summaries now quote Reddit and forum posts directly. The SEO industry just had its worst day in years.
⚡ Tech Technology & People — May 18, 2026
The technology that dominated May's second week wasn't about benchmarks or model releases. It was about how AI changes the texture of daily life — from your phone deciding what you see next, to encrypted conversations you'll never remember having, to chatbots that don't just waste your time but actively harm you.
⚡ Tech Graduation Speakers Booed for Praising AI — and the Class of 2026 Isn't Sorry
When a real estate executive told UCF arts graduates that AI is the next industrial revolution, they booed. When Eric Schmidt said much the same thing at Arizona, so did they. The Class of 2026 has a message, and it's not the one Silicon Valley wants to hear.
⚡ Tech AI Didn't Just Break CTF Competitions — It Broke the Pipeline That Trains Security People
Frontier AI models can now auto-solve most CTF challenges. The competitive format that trained a generation of security professionals is turning into a pay-to-write token-burning contest.
⚡ Tech Technology & People — May 17, 2026
Anthropic is quietly eating OpenAI's enterprise lunch on Ramp's platform, Google DeepMind is redesigning the mouse for an AI interface world, Android is blocking AI scams before they reach your phone, and Google is asking job candidates to use AI in interviews.
⚡ Tech Australia Just Wrote the Rules for AI Data Centres. New Zealand Hasn't Even Started the Conversation.
Australia treats AI data centres as critical national infrastructure with five binding expectations. NZ offers voluntary guidance and hopes for the best. The trans-Tasman gap is real — and growing.