Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and murdering people in cold blood, you might be wondering: who the hell hired these guys? As it turns out, AI played a huge role. According to NBC, when ICE identifies… Continue reading ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
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After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France’s Mistral AI. As part of the series of… Continue reading After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Whether you’re a one-room film production house or a propagandist for a massive arm of the US government, you’re never too good to have an extra set of eyes take a look at your final draft. That’s a lesson some PR spinsters with the Department of Homeland Security evidently have yet to learn, after the… Continue reading There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Tencia Benavidez, a Supernatural user who lives in New Mexico, started her VR workouts during the Covid pandemic. She has been a regular user in the five years since, calling the ability to work out in VR ideal, given that she lives in a rural area where it’s hard to get to a gym or… Continue reading Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI… Continue reading Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
Ford taps Mustang V8 to power its 2027 Le Mans hypercar
The new hypercar with which Ford will bid for its first outright Le Mans 24 Hours victory in 58 years will use the 5.4-litre ‘Coyote’ V8 from its Mustang GT3 racer. Ford announced last year that it would enter the full FIA World Endurance Championship with an LMDh hypercar in 2027, and it has now revealed the… Continue reading Ford taps Mustang V8 to power its 2027 Le Mans hypercar
Tesla sales stall in India, starts discounts on unsold Model Ys
Tesla is reportedly offering discounts on unsold Model Y inventory in India as the automaker faces a “letdown” in the major auto market following its official launch last year. We have been covering Tesla’s efforts to enter the Indian auto market for years now. It has been a saga of lobbying for lower import duties, rumors of a… Continue reading Tesla sales stall in India, starts discounts on unsold Model Ys
Tesla releases rare look at its lithium refinery, confirms production start
Tesla has released a new video giving us a closer look at its massive lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, and confirming that the facility has officially started production. For years, CEO Elon Musk has been urging entrepreneurs to get into the lithium refining business, famously calling it a “license to print money.” He noted… Continue reading Tesla releases rare look at its lithium refinery, confirms production start
Underwater car trade-ins are on the rise — and drivers owe a record amount, Edmunds finds
Sutthichai Supapornpasupad | Moment | Getty Images As consumers contend with higher auto payments, new data from car website Edmunds suggests they may be falling into a cycle of negative equity — where their outstanding auto loan balances are higher than the value of their cars. In the fourth quarter of 2025, 29.3% of trade-ins… Continue reading Underwater car trade-ins are on the rise — and drivers owe a record amount, Edmunds finds
Automakers like Ford and GM are jumping into a whole new business where Tesla is a serious player
U.S. automakers are increasingly entering the energy storage business as they pivot away from electric vehicles and try make use of battery factories that cost billions of dollars. Energy storage uses a lot of the same underlying technology as EV batteries to store power for homes, businesses and even utilities. Tesla has been investing in… Continue reading Automakers like Ford and GM are jumping into a whole new business where Tesla is a serious player