Down the Drain Since Donald Trump's "official" meme coin hit eyebrow-raising heights just before his inauguration, its value has plummeted spectacularly. As CoinMarketCap's price-tracking shows, the value of the $TRUMP…
The AI industry is set to lose more than $1 trillion — yes, that's with a "t" — after an open-source Chinese AI company called DeepSeek's ChatGPT competitor skyrocketed in…
On Saturday, billionaire Elon Musk made a brief appearance at a rally for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — a growing, far-right nationalist contingency boasting ties to neo-Nazism and…
Massive Attack DeepSeek, an AI startup that's risen to fame in a matter of days and has Silicon Valley shaking in its boots, says it has been hit with a…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has made a huge splash with its ChatGPT competitor, claiming it developed a similarly-performing AI assistant at a fraction of the cost. It's a serious contender…
A Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek has rocketed to the top of the charts on Apple's App Store — beating the ever-popular ChatGPT, among other competitors. But what had Silicon…
A groundbreaking brain implant has allowed a paralyzed man to control a virtual drone and fly it through an obstacle course. The feat, as detailed in a study published in…
In a ginormous new study, researchers have begun mapping the manifold health benefits of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy beyond weight loss. Published in the journal Nature Medicine, this new study…
Little Friends We've heard of underground parties, but this is ridiculous. A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface…
Track Stars In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is quite literally ahead of the pack. As the South China Morning Post reports, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area…
Radio Star Astronomers say they've detected a mysterious type of signal known as a fast radio burst coming from an ancient, dead galaxy billions of light years away. Figuratively speaking,…
Amid his bizarre and expensive efforts to reverse aging or gain eternal life, tech founder-turned-biohacker Bryan Johnson is now — we wish we were making this up — comparing his…
Faltered Carbon The already formidable environmental toll of generative AI is even worse than it seems because businesses aren't being transparent about the emissions given off by their enormous new…
With Great Power Tufts University biotech researcher Marco Lo Presti made an astonishing discovery while investigating how silk and dopamine allow mussels to stick to rocky surfaces. "While using acetone…
Content warning: this story discusses suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit…
Never content to rest on their hoarded wealth, institutional power, and oligarchic control over our government, a growing number of moneyed right-wingers and their influential allies are now targeting the acclaimed…
Bait and Switch The fine print of a sweeping executive order seemingly grants Elon Musk — the wealthiest and arguably most powerful unelected figure in the world — and his…
President Donald Trump's behemoth $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate, may be doomed from the start. Trump made the sweeping announcement earlier this week, revealing that the ChatGPT maker,…
Rent Seeking As Trump hits the asphalt with a bevy of executive orders, it's becoming clearer what he and his tech bro buddies imagine for the future of US labor:…
UnitedHealthcare has just promoted one of its C-Suiters to CEO — and the dark humor is already pouring in. Six weeks after Brian Thompson was gunned down in the streets…