While tech executives wax poetic about AI ushering in four-day workweeks and liberation from labor, economics guru Robert Reich is...

On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX, the Grok...

When the Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published his ominous warning about AI’s effects on mental health back in 2023,...

When the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was shutting down El Paso Airport this morning, social media lit up with...

Earlier this year, an anonymous bettor on Polymarket perfectly predicted the US invasion of Venezuela mere hours before over 150...

The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part of its...

In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off in a...

In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet.”...

Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US government’s immigration...

An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in peril.” The...

Last month, the popular social video app TikTok finalized a deal with investors, including Oracle, to appease a bipartisan bill...

Since at least the early 2000s, Elon Musk has been obsessed with the idea of colonizing Mars, a hostile and...

At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked out around...

For years, Bitcoin evangelists have grasped at straws trying to explain what their digital currency is actually good for. Is...

Turns out the sci-fi filmmakers got it backwards. All those ’70s and ’80s dystopias like “Rollerball,” “The Running Man,” “Death...