Researchers Replicate OpenAI’s Hot New AI Tool in 24 Hours

AI developer Hugging Face says it’s created an open-source AI research agent that can trade blows with OpenAI’s latest Deep Research feature — in just 24 hours. The Sam Altman-led company released the agent, which “uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you,” over the weekend. Simply… Continue reading Researchers Replicate OpenAI’s Hot New AI Tool in 24 Hours

Scheme That Allows Crypto Bros to Buy Ownership of Apartments Leads to Black Mold, Evictions

It’s a tale as old as time. A tenant moves into a place with lower-than-average rent, only to discover some undisclosed horror that takes an indifferent landlord weeks to fix. Now imagine if instead of one landlord, you had hundreds, and in order to get them to fix your hot water problem, you had to look… Continue reading Scheme That Allows Crypto Bros to Buy Ownership of Apartments Leads to Black Mold, Evictions

Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs

Image by SDI Productions / Getty Images Amid his quest to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget, Elon Musk has set his sights on the Department of Veterans Affairs — but not, of course, the military that necessitates such post-service care. In a statement to Military.com, a VA spokesperson confirmed that one of the young… Continue reading Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs

OpenAI Seems to Be Low Key Panicking

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shocked the tech industry with its extremely cost-effective AI model, trained at a fraction of the cost of its far more resource-intensive rivals in the US. DeepSeek turned out to be a force to be reckoned with, triggering a more than $1 trillion selloff, with spooked investors wondering whether they had… Continue reading OpenAI Seems to Be Low Key Panicking

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis

Explosive. On New Years morning this year, US Army Master Sergeant Matthew Livelsberger rolled his rental cybertruck up near the front doors of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. Levelsberger then armed a device which would soon detonate a collection of gas canisters and explosive fireworks, blowing the windows out of the hotel and injuring seven… Continue reading The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis

Paranoid Elon Musk Says That USAID Has Been Constructing a False Reality Around Us

Elon Musk is making a wild new claim: that USAID — and untold other regions of the American federal government, apparently — has constructed a false, “Truman Show”-esque reality around us. Keyword: saying. It means nothing, and Musk — who’s currently knee-deep in a digitally-driven power grab within the federal government — has offered no proof… Continue reading Paranoid Elon Musk Says That USAID Has Been Constructing a False Reality Around Us

Scientists Grow Living “Replacement Teeth” for Dental Implants

Image by Glow Images / Getty Images Like something out of “Repo! The Genetic Opera,” scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig’s mouth, in a harbinger of weird new frontiers for dentistry. As the MIT Technology Review explains, researchers at Tufts bioengineered this fascinating monstrosity… Continue reading Scientists Grow Living “Replacement Teeth” for Dental Implants

Elon Musk’s DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending

Billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is ripping through the federal government’s agencies at a breakneck pace — to the horror of many, but perhaps particularly IT professionals and cybersecurity experts. As part of their efforts to analyze huge swaths of sensitive data, Wired reports, DOGE is training a custom AI chatbot for… Continue reading Elon Musk’s DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending

Virtually Everybody Who’s Ever Bought Trump’s Meme Coin Has Lost Money On It

Donald Trump’s brand may be built on a perception of “winning,” but buyers of his spectacularly shady TRUMP coin are experiencing the exact opposite. Soon after Trump launched his memecoin days before his second inauguration, its value plummeted from its all-time high of $78 as hyped-up crypto bros raced to cash out. It currently sits… Continue reading Virtually Everybody Who’s Ever Bought Trump’s Meme Coin Has Lost Money On It

One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets

A teenage member of billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE boys — a youthful entourage currently slicing its way through the federal government — was previously fired from an internship after being accused of leaking sensitive data to a competitor. The 19-year-old high school grad Edward Coristine, also known by the online moniker “Big Balls,” was “terminated… Continue reading One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets