China’s decades-old network of elite high-school “genius classes” — ultra-competitive talent streams that pull an estimated 100,000 gifted teenagers out of regular schooling every year and run them through college-level science curricula — has produced the core technical talent now building the country’s leading AI and technology companies. Graduates of Read more…
October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, the world’s largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000, dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak. What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into something more corrosive: a selloff shaped not by panic, but by absence of buyers, Read more…
Starbucks has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into AI and automation — testing robots that take drive-through orders, virtual assistants that help baristas recall recipes and manage schedules, and scanning tools that count inventory — as the 55-year-old coffee chain tries to reverse several years of struggling sales. Read more…
Massacres all over Gaza today. Deadliest day in months. Nearly 50 Palestinians, mainly women and children and elders, as always, were killed. Kids blown to pieces, mothers blown apart by bombs. Babies.
Moltbook is essentially Reddit for AI agents and an interesting place on the internet right now. The fast-growing social network offers a place where AI agents built on the OpenClaw personal assistant framework can share their skills, experiments, and discoveries. Humans are welcome, but only to observe. Browsing around Moltbook Read more…
The White House has announced that software security guidance issued during the Biden administration has been rescinded due to “unproven and burdensome” requirements that prioritized administrative compliance over meaningful security investments. The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued Memorandum M-26-05 (PDF), officially revoking the previous administration’s 2022 Read more…
About a decade ago, many media outlets — including WIRED — zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug seeking not full-blown hallucinatory revels but gentler, more Read more…