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The tech industry’s standing in the eyes of the US public has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last few years. Where Americans were once excited for new tech products and industry ideas, they’re now exhausted by the sector’s intrusions into their lives, whether with AI-generated slop or the data centers that power it.Pretty much everyone has received that message loud and clear: political strategists are issuing frenzied memos about the data center backlash, while tech financiers are now forced to consider the financial cost of AI hatred.At this point, there’s just one group that hasn’t caught on, and it’s…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is struggling to keep his ahead above water.With the backlash against his company’s AI-powered surveillance network reaching a boiling point, Langley tried to reason with his critics by calling for a “compromise.”“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said in a recent Fox News interview, as spotted by TechCrunch. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”It’s the latest attempt from the Flock CEO to save the company’s image as…
As the bipartisan hate for data centers continues to grow, Texas governor Greg Abbott is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune.During a Sunday interview with ABC, Abbott said that AI companies have “basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”His comments indicate that it’s not just blue states growing wary of data centers. It’s a particularly noteworthy new take for Abbott, who mere months ago was an outspoken supporter of the massive facilities powering the AI boom. Just in November, he gloated that Texas was the…
Under the Trump administration, the federal government is sending wild horses straight into the meat grinder.An investigation by the New York Times found that the Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of these free-roaming animals and selling them to private buyers for pennies on the dollars, who then sell the horses to slaughterhouses at a huge profit. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the investigation found that the agency is exploiting a legal loophole to offload the animals so it can save it millions of dollars it’d have to spend taking care of them.“The BLM is saying to the…
A fashion tech entrepreneur has been ordered to serve time in prison after her ridiculous excuse for defrauding investors crumpled in court.On Thursday, Christine Hunsicker, former CEO of the “clothing-as-a-service” startup CaaStle was sentenced to five years in prison for committing nearly $300 million in fraud, the Financial Times reports.As part of Hunsicker’s defense, her lawyers tried to argue that the fraud stemmed from a traumatic brain injury after a “thirty-pound” mirror fell on her head. During the trial, a doctor testified on the CEO’s behalf that had she not been injured, she would “not have engaged in the fraud.”On…
Derek Chadwick, the cofounder of the new gay dating app Goose, has suddenly quit the company after the platform was exposed for tricking men into signing up using fake, AI generated influencers, the magazine Out reports.Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post.“Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve stepped away from Goose,” Chadwick wrote. “This was not a decision I made lightly. Building something for our community has been one of the most meaningful things I’ve gotten to do, and I’m proud to have…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that pending home sales in the US had dropped to their lowest level in three years. That coincided with a sharp drop in construction of new homes, which plummeted to the lowest level in over three and a half years in July — two signs that things are not so sunny for the country’s housing market.While complicated factors like unchecked inflation and stagnant wages are surely having an effect on both weak housing supply and demand, there’s at least one novel factor contributing to the financial morass: AI data centers.According to policy publication the Center…
Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market. In a June 2026 report, the resume service Resume Builder surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 20 and 28 who graduated with a bachelor’s degree within the past year. Some 34 percent of them said they had a job offer that was yanked out of their hands after it was accepted. Of that contingent, 13 percent said it happened to them multiple times.Radio silence from employers was even…
A new prediction market has entered the fold, seemingly determined to give the rampant insider trading that its competitors have become known for a run for its money.Called “CRSHMARKET,” the platform purportedly allows users to bet on potentially any event that happens in a livestream. Gamers playing on Twitch and weird “IRL streamers” that film themselves being a public nuisance on Kick are now effectively fodder for gamblers.“What if any livestream could become a prediction market?” the company asked in a post on X that recently went viral, which included a brief video ad. “Will her Uber arrive in under…
A Texas woman ran outside to witness the future of delivery services. There, hovering above her property, was a large Amazon Prime Air drone that had just descended from the heavens to dispense her package.But in a video she recorded of this encounter recently shared by ABC7 News, all did not go as planned. The advanced flying machine took its time, lined up its shot, and plunked her parcel straight into her swimming pool — which landed with all the ceremony of a giant turd hitting the bottom of a toilet bowl.“Oh my god, oh my god,” she said in…