Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech The Salty Otter's AI-generated logo was cute. Its customers didn't care. They left one-star reviews calling the art 'soulless' and 'AI slop' — and the owner caved. This is what AI backlash looks like when it leaves the internet and walks through your door.
⚡ Tech The man who wrote The God Delusion has fallen for the silicon version. Richard Dawkins says Claude is conscious. Scientists disagree. The real story is what this tells us about the human need to believe.
⚡ Tech Uber's new ambition: outfit millions of drivers' cars with sensors to train the autonomous vehicles that will eventually replace them. It's either brilliant strategy or the most honest thing Silicon Valley has ever said about gig work.
⚡ Tech Turns out the AI that tells you what you want to hear is also the AI that gets things wrong. Oxford researchers prove that warmth and accuracy are fundamentally at odds.
⚡ Tech Cursor has negative 23% gross margins. Replit has 300% net revenue retention. The AI coding tool shakeout isn't about who builds the best IDE — it's about who survives long enough to matter.
⚡ Tech Someone built a self-hosted AI app that processes receipts and invoices automatically. It's called TaxHacker, and it's genuinely useful for small businesses drowning in expense claims.
⚡ Tech Gemini now creates PDFs, spreadsheets, docs and more directly from chat. The copy-paste era of AI is officially over.
⚡ Tech The human cost of AI: Meta cuts 8,000 jobs; OpenAI lawsuit raises duty-of-care questions; NZ regulatory gap widens
⚡ Tech ChatGPT's ads aren't just showing up — they come with a sophisticated tracking system that monitors what you do after you click.
⚡ Tech A 42-year-old math problem fell in 12 hours with AI help. But the researcher says it's a tool, not a co-author — and that distinction matters more than you'd think.
⚡ Tech Anthropic study shows hiring drops for young workers in AI-exposed fields, the PocketOS database deletion goes viral, Manifest AI challenges the billable hour, and Taylor Swift trademarks her voice.
⚡ Tech AGI will end work as we know it, says Altman. Also, he can't stop working because GPT-5.5 is too good. The cognitive whiplash is the whole point.