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Sam Altman against a pixelated wall of fire.

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

Predictions about an AI-triggered apocalypse have become a meme over the past two weeks. But tech CEOs have been making them for much longer.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Sep 19

Tilly Norwood, the AI character, is a brunette skinny white woman

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview

Artificial Intelligence Tom McKay Sep 18

A stand presents Google Gemini at the launch of the new Google AI Center Berlin on March 05, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

Artificial Intelligence Tom McKay Sep 18

U.S. forces interdict a sanctioned stateless vessel MT DAVINA located in the Indian Ocean within the INDOPACOM area of responsibility, June 4, 2026.

‘Almost Started a War’: US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak Sep 18

FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Sep 18

Artificial Intelligence

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The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

Predictions about an AI-triggered apocalypse have become a meme over the past two weeks. But tech CEOs have been making them for much longer.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Sep 19

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview

Artificial Intelligence Tom McKay Sep 18

Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

Artificial Intelligence Tom McKay Sep 18

‘Almost Started a War’: US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak Sep 18

After Threatening Character.AI With Legal Action, Disney Puts Its CEO in Charge of Tech

Artificial Intelligence Bruce Gil Sep 18

Commerce

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Pretty Soon, the Only Thing Between You and the Next E. Coli Outbreak Will Be Palantir

Maybe stick to Qdoba.

Commerce AJ Dellinger Sep 16

Photo: Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images

Expect to See a Lot More Amazon Products Promoted on YouTube

Commerce Bruce Gil Sep 1

Kalshi Teams Up With the Weather Co. on Markets That Are Nearly Impossible to Insider Trade

Commerce Bruce Gil Aug 27

Tesla Is Pulling the Plug on Its Solar Roof Tiles

Commerce Bruce Gil Aug 21

Apple Wants to Settle Its Long-Running Legal Battle With Epic Games

Commerce Bruce Gil Aug 14

Crime

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A man dressed as Darth Vader speaks in favor of Flock Safety surveillance at a City Council meeting in San Diego, California, on Aug. 19, 2026.

‘The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock’: Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting

"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.

Crime Matt Novak Aug 20

An electric shock glove as it appeared in the September 1935 issue of Popular Science magazine.

This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to ‘Incite Fear’

Crime Matt Novak Aug 20

61-Year-Old Japanese Man Arrested After Decade of Rocking Too Hard

Crime Tom Hawking Jul 31

Clicking On 1 Of 100 Web Button On Website

How a Single Typo in a Username Cost an Innocent Man 18 Months of His Life

Crime Tom Hawking Jul 29

EBay and Former Execs Will Pay $56 Million to Couple They Tormented With Bloody Pig Masks

Crime Ece Yildirim Jul 28

Cryptocurrencies

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Mr. Robot’s Ecoin Comes to Life Via Wall Street’s New Blockchain

Circle’s new Arc blockchain puts its USDC stablecoin at the center of a permissioned network secured by BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and other Wall Street fixtures.

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 18

Nonprofit Stand With Crypto, Which Was Set Up By The Cryptocurrency Company Coinbase, Holds A Get Out The Vote Rally In Hollywood, Featuring The Rapper Nas

The Crypto Industry Wasn’t Able to Buy Congress After All

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 16

Bitcoin’s Network Hashrate Is 50% Below Trend as Miners Shift to AI

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 16

An image of someone with a credit card in front of a computer.

Crypto’s Latest Stablecoin Innovation? Chargebacks.

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 14

‘White Hat’ Liquid Network Crypto Hackers Are Now Grandstanding and Demanding a 10% Bounty

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Sep 10

Custom hardware maker Tru Narla is transforming a hobby invented by cyberpunks cosplaying dystopia into an artistic vision for how humanity can live in blissed-out harmony with the technology it creates.

Culture Matthew Phelan Sep 18

An illustration of the future done by Tina Kambitsis at the John F. Kennedy High school in New York, published in the Tricentennial Report time capsule.

Kids of 2026 Make Futuristic Predictions That Are Very Similar to the Kids of 50 Years Ago

Culture Matt Novak Sep 15

Big Tech Destroyed the Bookshop. But Never Fear, Big Tech Is Reinventing the Bookshop!

Culture Tom Hawking Sep 11

PlayStation Cancels Deal With Hideo Kojima, Burns the Last of Its Gamer Good Will

Culture Tom Hawking Sep 10

Elizabeth Holmes as seen in the film 'You Can See Everything'

Tech CEOs Are This Fall’s Favorite Movie Villains

Culture AJ Dellinger Sep 8

Gadgets

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Dyson’s Latest Robovac Is Ideal for People Who Don’t Care About Mop-Bots

The R1 Nurovi Dry is vacuum-only but has all the bells and whistles of premium mop-bots for a way lower price.

Gadgets Wes Davis Sep 18

Snap’s Do or Die Moment in AR Has Arrived

Gadgets James Pero Sep 18

Govee Wallwasher Smart Table Lamp standing next to a smart phone.

Govee’s New Table Lamp Spews Color All Over Your Wall

Gadgets Wes Davis Sep 18

Screenless Wearables Forecast a Minimalist Health-Tracking Future

Gadgets Ian Carlos Campbell Sep 18

Demystifying the iPhone 18 Pro’s Variable Aperture

Gadgets Tom Hawking Sep 17

Internet

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Viral Horny Pumpkin Song Not That Horny, Insists Horny Guy Who Wrote It

Jack-off-latern.

Internet AJ Dellinger Sep 17

The World Would Be Psychedelic as Hell If the Speed of Light Was Way Slower

Internet Tom Hawking Sep 16

Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

Internet Bruce Gil Sep 8

Bill Simmons sits in front of a wall of flames.

Bill Simmons’ Cozy Relationship With Tech Companies Is Blowing Up in His Face

Internet AJ Dellinger Sep 2

Millions of Comcast WiFi Routers Can Now Tell When You’re Moving Around the House

Internet Bruce Gil Aug 19

Politics

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An Elon Musk sign sits in a bush the federal courthouse during proceedings in the trial over Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI in Oakland, California, on April 30, 2026.

Universal Reportedly Looking to Shelve the Elon Musk Documentary

Failure to launch.

Politics AJ Dellinger Sep 17

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook during a meeting with business leaders at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence on October 28, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tim Apple Rides Again

Artificial Intelligence Bruce Gil Sep 17

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference following Federal Open Market Committee meetings at Federal Reserve Headquarters on September 16, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Trump Flips Out on Truth Social as Fed Hikes Interest Rates

Politics Matt Novak Sep 16

Trump Decides Now Would Be a Great Time to Support Flock Cameras

Politics Bruce Gil Sep 14

A U.S. National Park Service employee uses a vacuum pump to clean algae off the bottom of the newly repainted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall on June 16, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Contractor Admits They, Not Imaginary Antifa Vandals, Wrecked the Reflecting Pool

Politics Tom McKay Sep 11

Privacy & Security

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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Sep 18

A Flock camera monitors passing traffic on September 02, 2026 in Miami, Florida.

Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week

Privacy & Security Matt Novak Sep 18

Elon Musk Reportedly Seeking Customer Data From Dead Startups to Train AI

Privacy & Security Ece Yildirim Sep 17

Several credit cards with the U.S. dollar in the background

Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping

Privacy & Security Ece Yildirim Sep 17

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Photos App Apple Reference Image 260909

Apple Explains How Its New iPhone 18 Photo Verification Actually Works

Privacy & Security Bruce Gil Sep 16

Robots

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New Humanoid Worker Bot Seems to Cower When It Encounters Humans

Finally, flesh and blood get some damn respect.

Robots Mike Pearl Sep 15

This New Dreame Robomower’s Side Piece Seems Great at Edging

Gadgets Wes Davis Sep 3

Hugging Face Wants You to Stop Worrying and Love This Adorable Robot Duck

Robots AJ Dellinger Aug 27

Humanoid robot collides with an obstacle and caught fire at the end of the 100 meter race during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at National Speed Skating Oval on August 25, 2026 in Beijing, China.

The Best Robot Fails From the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games

Robots Matt Novak Aug 25

A Tesla Optimus robot scoops popcorn and waves at attendees during the opening of the Tesla Diner and Drive-In restaurant and Supercharger on Santa Monica Blvd in the Hollywood neighborhood Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2025.

Elon Musk: No One Gets Free Bread Until I Have Replaced Every Worker With a Robot

Robots Matt Novak Aug 25

Social Media

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Meta Is Hoping You’ll Pay for More AI Features on Instagram

The tech giant is launching a paid subscription for more AI usage on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.

Social Media Ece Yildirim Sep 15

Tom Cruise in the trailer for the upcoming film Digger.

The Internet Is Convinced That Tom Cruise’s Latest Movie is Secretly a Musical

Social Media Matt Novak Sep 13

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lights the Empire State Building in celebration of America 250 at The Empire State Building on July 04, 2026 in New York City.

Zohran Mamdani Is So Popular He Offers Influencers Something More Valuable Than Money: Clout

Social Media AJ Dellinger Sep 4

TikTok Is Supercharging Comments With Voice, Photo Carousels, and Polls

Social Media Ece Yildirim Sep 3

GoPro Shares Skyrocket After YouTuber Markiplier Becomes Biggest Shareholder

Social Media Ece Yildirim Aug 31

Sploid

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This Drone in a Bowling Alley Is the Coolest Video You’ll See All Week

Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve got the coolest video you’ll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. The video, titled “Right Up Our Alley,” was created by Sky Candy Studios and directed by Anthony Jaska. The…

Sploid Matt Novak Mar 10 '21

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Sploid Alyse Stanley Feb 17 '20

You’re Not Doing the Fourth of July Right If You’re Not Blowing Up the World’s Largest Fireworks Tank

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 4 '19

A Tiny Drone Carrying a Deconstructed GoPro Captured This Incredible Dinosaur Museum Fly-Through

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jun 4 '19

I Wasn’t Prepared for the Crushing Melancholy of Watching This Bull Pop His Toy Ball

Sploid Rhett Jones Mar 1 '19

Tech Policy

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United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2026.

Don’t Give AI Companies What They Want, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tells Lawmakers

“The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate.”

Tech Policy Webb Wright Sep 16

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

The European Union Sets Limits on Teen Social Media Use. Video Games and AI Chatbots Might Be Next

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim Sep 16

Newsom Signs AI Industry-Approved AI Regulation Bills Into Law in California

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Sep 9

Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim Sep 8

Google-Backed Nuclear Plant Gets Nearly $2 Billion Loan From the Energy Department

Tech Policy Bruce Gil Sep 8

Transportation

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An AI image from Reddit promoting a truckers' strike (left) and a screenshot of a video from Red Pill Patriot 1776 that went viral on Instagram.

Are Truckers Really Going on Strike Oct. 1?

There's a lot of chatter online, but is it just talk?

Transportation Matt Novak Sep 18

NHTSA Orders Tesla to Prove Its Cybercab Meets Federal Safety Standards

Transportation Bruce Gil Sep 16

Jet fuel is transported by a tank truck to a Eurowings aircraft at the airport in Duesseldorf, western Germany on May 21, 2026.

You Really Should Book Your Holiday Flights Right Now

Transportation Matt Novak Sep 14

President Donald Trump mimics firing a gun as he speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC.

Say Hello to $6 Diesel

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 10

Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, during a news conference in Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025.

Ford’s China Ties Spark a Very Public Fight With the Trump Administration

Transportation Bruce Gil Sep 9

Tech News

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview

Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

‘Almost Started a War’: US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI

FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview

Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

‘Almost Started a War’: US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI

FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

After Threatening Character.AI With Legal Action, Disney Puts Its CEO in Charge of Tech

OpenAI Researcher Warns Air-Gapped Computers Can Talk Through Heat. Technically, He’s Right

Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week

Dyson’s Latest Robovac Is Ideal for People Who Don’t Care About Mop-Bots

Mr. Robot’s Ecoin Comes to Life Via Wall Street’s New Blockchain

Napster Is Now Making AI-Powered ‘Digital Twins’ of Teachers

Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours

Snap’s Do or Die Moment in AR Has Arrived

Govee’s New Table Lamp Spews Color All Over Your Wall

Are Truckers Really Going on Strike Oct. 1?

Screenless Wearables Forecast a Minimalist Health-Tracking Future

This DIY Creator Is Building a Compass That Only Points to Taco Bell

Pessimism Reigns Over AI and Jobs, Pew Poll Finds

OpenAI Reportedly Trying to Solve Hodge Conjecture Amid Feud With Math Community

Pangram Can Now Check Your Gmail for AI Slop

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview

Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It’s Only Admitting That Now

‘Almost Started a War’: US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI

After Threatening Character.AI With Legal Action, Disney Puts Its CEO in Charge of Tech

Pretty Soon, the Only Thing Between You and the Next E. Coli Outbreak Will Be Palantir

Expect to See a Lot More Amazon Products Promoted on YouTube

Kalshi Teams Up With the Weather Co. on Markets That Are Nearly Impossible to Insider Trade

Tesla Is Pulling the Plug on Its Solar Roof Tiles

Apple Wants to Settle Its Long-Running Legal Battle With Epic Games

‘The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock’: Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting

This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to ‘Incite Fear’

61-Year-Old Japanese Man Arrested After Decade of Rocking Too Hard

How a Single Typo in a Username Cost an Innocent Man 18 Months of His Life

EBay and Former Execs Will Pay $56 Million to Couple They Tormented With Bloody Pig Masks

Mr. Robot’s Ecoin Comes to Life Via Wall Street’s New Blockchain

The Crypto Industry Wasn’t Able to Buy Congress After All

Bitcoin’s Network Hashrate Is 50% Below Trend as Miners Shift to AI

Crypto’s Latest Stablecoin Innovation? Chargebacks.

‘White Hat’ Liquid Network Crypto Hackers Are Now Grandstanding and Demanding a 10% Bounty

This DIY Creator Is Building a Compass That Only Points to Taco Bell

Kids of 2026 Make Futuristic Predictions That Are Very Similar to the Kids of 50 Years Ago

Big Tech Destroyed the Bookshop. But Never Fear, Big Tech Is Reinventing the Bookshop!

PlayStation Cancels Deal With Hideo Kojima, Burns the Last of Its Gamer Good Will

Tech CEOs Are This Fall’s Favorite Movie Villains

Dyson’s Latest Robovac Is Ideal for People Who Don’t Care About Mop-Bots

Snap’s Do or Die Moment in AR Has Arrived

Govee’s New Table Lamp Spews Color All Over Your Wall

Screenless Wearables Forecast a Minimalist Health-Tracking Future

Demystifying the iPhone 18 Pro’s Variable Aperture

Viral Horny Pumpkin Song Not That Horny, Insists Horny Guy Who Wrote It

The World Would Be Psychedelic as Hell If the Speed of Light Was Way Slower

Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

Bill Simmons’ Cozy Relationship With Tech Companies Is Blowing Up in His Face

Millions of Comcast WiFi Routers Can Now Tell When You’re Moving Around the House

Universal Reportedly Looking to Shelve the Elon Musk Documentary

Tim Apple Rides Again

Trump Flips Out on Truth Social as Fed Hikes Interest Rates

Trump Decides Now Would Be a Great Time to Support Flock Cameras

Contractor Admits They, Not Imaginary Antifa Vandals, Wrecked the Reflecting Pool

FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them

Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO’s Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week

Elon Musk Reportedly Seeking Customer Data From Dead Startups to Train AI

Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping

Apple Explains How Its New iPhone 18 Photo Verification Actually Works

New Humanoid Worker Bot Seems to Cower When It Encounters Humans

This New Dreame Robomower’s Side Piece Seems Great at Edging

Hugging Face Wants You to Stop Worrying and Love This Adorable Robot Duck

The Best Robot Fails From the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games

Elon Musk: No One Gets Free Bread Until I Have Replaced Every Worker With a Robot

Meta Is Hoping You’ll Pay for More AI Features on Instagram

The Internet Is Convinced That Tom Cruise’s Latest Movie is Secretly a Musical

Zohran Mamdani Is So Popular He Offers Influencers Something More Valuable Than Money: Clout

TikTok Is Supercharging Comments With Voice, Photo Carousels, and Polls