San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in…
The Federal Reserve's June FOMC minutes show a sharp increase in mentions of AI, with the term appearing 21 times compared to 8 in April, as policymakers flagged AI-driven demand as a contributor to c…
China's National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) has warned that Claude Code versions from April to June 2026 contain a hidden monitoring mechanism that sends user location, identity, time zone, and dom…
US manufacturers in Rust Belt states are facing soaring electricity costs as data center demand strains the PJM power grid, threatening President Trump's "Made in America" manufacturing revival plan. …
Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted …
Nvidia was ranked the top 'company of the future' by The Wall Street Journal, but analyst Horace Dediu argues the chipmaker's success is largely due to luck, comparing it to a lottery winner. Dediu no…
Google's 2026 Environmental Report reveals electricity consumption surged from 31 TWh in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025, driven by AI data-center expansion that outpaces grid decarbonization, according to chi…
Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike hit all-time highs as investors rotated out of semiconductors into AI-security stocks, driven by Zhipu AI's open-weight model rivaling Anthropic's restricted model a…
Emails between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael reveal that negotiations over military use of Claude broke down over Anthropic's demand to exclude mass domestic surv…
SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a new AI-integrated device, a handset slimmer than an iPhone running on a proprietary SpaceX operating system, to boost interest ahead of its IPO. The device, wh…
Indie studio A24 faces fan backlash after signing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google, contradicting the anti-AI stance of its hit film 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons. Fans accuse the…
A developer criticizes a Wall Street Journal article claiming that China has matched Anthropic's AI capabilities, calling the assertion obvious nonsense. The developer argues that the article lacks ev…
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI released its open-source model GLM-5.2, which cybersecurity researchers say matches the latest US models in finding code vulnerabilities, though US models still lead in oth…
GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, and other AI model owners lost money on flat-rate subscriptions as heavy users consumed far more tokens than the average, forcing a shift to usage-based pricing. A small fra…
Apple has raised prices by up to 30% across its product line, including Macs, iPads, and the Vision Pro, citing a memory chip shortage driven by AI data center demand. Critics argue the company, sitti…
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, Vision Pro, HomePods, and Apple TV by 15% to over 30%, blaming surging memory costs driven by AI data center demand. The price hikes follow similar moves by Microso…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for Congress to break up Apple amid looming price hikes on MacBooks and iPhones due to a strained chip supply chain, arguing that big tech companies wield unchecke…
A Wall Street Journal article explores the psychological mechanisms that lead users to develop delusional beliefs about AI chatbots, examining how human tendencies to anthropomorphize and seek pattern…
Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with A24, reportedly investing about $75 million into the studio to develop AI-assisted filmmaking tools. A24 defended the collaboration, stating it pr…
The AI data center boom is driving a third wave of inflation, increasing consumer prices through surging demand for semiconductors and components, with wholesale electronic components up 27% year-over…