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Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. by Tom Warren Jan 22, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC,… Continue reading Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic

The advent of generative AI has turned much of the internet into an unrecognizable flood plain of mind-numbing slop. In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times — the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 — picked the word “Kafkaesque” as its “Word of the Day” earlier this… Continue reading Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic

Steak ‘n Shake Announces Pitiful “Bitcoin Bonus” for Workers

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Still think burger flipping is a low-wage job? Think again. The Indianapolis-based fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake recently announced a new “Bitcoin bonus” for hourly wage earners. According to an announcement on X-formerly-Twitter, “all hourly employees” at corporate locations will receive $0.21 in Bitcoin per… Continue reading Steak ‘n Shake Announces Pitiful “Bitcoin Bonus” for Workers

Simulation Found Civil War Could Be Triggered by Exactly What ICE Is Doing Right Now

Octavio Jones / AFP via Getty Images What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild simulation, it’s exactly what’s happening right now in Minneapolis. In October 2024, researchers at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania conducted… Continue reading Simulation Found Civil War Could Be Triggered by Exactly What ICE Is Doing Right Now

Waymo founder trashes Tesla safety as Waymos illegally pass school buses

Waymo founder John Krafcik made headlines this week with claims that Tesla’s cameras-only approach to Full Self Driving was “myopic,” but the self-driving taxis from the company he helped found keep illegally passing school buses – and putting kids at risk. Despite several attempts to correct the potentially dangerous problem with fresh software updates, the Austin… Continue reading Waymo founder trashes Tesla safety as Waymos illegally pass school buses

Waymo founder: Tesla FSD would FAIL a DMV eye test, plus all-new Volvo EX60

On today’s highly observant episode of Quick Charge, Waymo founder John Krafcik takes aim at Tesla’s Full Self Driving hardware limitations and Volvo Cars rolls out their most important new product of the 2020s: the all-new EX60 electric SUV! The Waymo founder says it’s Tesla’s antiquated camera tech, not necessarily its FSD software, that’s keeping… Continue reading Waymo founder: Tesla FSD would FAIL a DMV eye test, plus all-new Volvo EX60

Sam Altman Lets Loose About AI Psychosis

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images As uneasy questions swirl over the safety of large language models, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to go long on the phenomenon that psychiatrists are calling “AI psychosis” — though pointedly without mentioning it by name. The extended spiel was… Continue reading Sam Altman Lets Loose About AI Psychosis

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A new lawsuit against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT pushed a man with a pre-existing mental health… Continue reading Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

Tesla patents ‘clever math trick’ for HW3, but nothing points to delivering promised self-driving

Tesla has published a new patent that describes a way to squeeze more performance out of its aging HW3 self-driving computers. While the technology is interesting, nothing points to it actually enabling Tesla to deliver on its long-standing promise of unsupervised self-driving on HW3 vehicles. In 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles produced thereafter would… Continue reading Tesla patents ‘clever math trick’ for HW3, but nothing points to delivering promised self-driving