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A decade ago, young adults were flocking to vaunted tech giants like Google and Apple in pursuit of exciting jobs on the cutting edge of tech.In 2026, however, the status quo of young people who are uncritically enamored with the tech industry and its billionaire overlords has gone completely out the window.A new survey conducted by CNBC‘s Generation Labs asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34 to share their thoughts on politics, AI, and the country’s economy.A particularly interesting branch of questions polled participants on their views of nine executives overseeing AI companies, and the results were…
What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids? A great recipe for violent extremism, it turns out.A new analysis by researchers at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) argues that the AI-generated fruit videos infesting our feeds is a font for covertly spreading “violent and extremist content.”Most of these reels seem inconsequential, featuring brainrot storylines of colorful — if sometimes pornographic — fruit characters navigating dramatic situations like love triangles, job loss, and brotherhood. Yet the GNET analysts observed that a rising number of fruitslop reels are verging…
Electric vehicles offer plenty of benefits. There’s the instant torque, savings on fuel — and, of course, they’re much kinder to mother Earth.Yet compared to vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, EVs come with a key disadvantage drivers hope they never have to experience: they’re much more dangerous when they catch on fire. (An important caveat, though, is that they catch on fire less often than gas-powered vehicles.)When they go up in flames, the lithium-ion batteries in EVs are much more difficult for emergency responders to extinguish than standard combustion engines. That’s thanks to a phenomenon known as thermal runaway,…
A macabre community is thriving on Reddit, united by one core feeling: massive regret over having brought children into the world.The community, called r/RegretfulParents, is basically an anonymous forum for remorseful moms and dads to vent their darkest frustrations.It bills itself as a “safe place for parents who think they shouldn’t have become parents to rant, confess, and get things off their chest about their kids, partners, families, etc,” safeguarded by a critical rule: “no judgment or bullying allowed.”A particularly grim motif is parents wishing they had a time machine so they could choose never to procreate. One such father…
When far-right white nationalist Jake Lang rolled up to a peaceful religious procession in Dearborn, Michigan earlier this month with a sign calling to “deport 100 million” Muslims, he clearly didn’t plan on making any friends.Predictably, the repeat-agitator of Michigan’s Arab-American community — who served four years in prison for his role in the January 6 insurrection — got into a scuffle with a small but angry crowd, resulting in three arrests.In other words, he came looking for a fight, and he got one. But for Lang and his supporters on the far right, the fracas was proof positive of…
There are alarmingly few degrees of separation between moral paragon of the AI industry Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Jeffrey Epstein.According to a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal, Amodei’s wife Cami Clark communicated with Epstein for several years while trying to get the deceased sex criminal and accused sex trafficker to invest in her women-focused porn company.In March 2011, Clark reached out to Epstein after being introduced to him by John Brockman, a literary agent who helped connect Epstein with scientists and tech figures, emails released by the Justice Department showed.“Hello Jeffrey! We would love to have dinner…
Nuclear holocaust isn’t a scenario to be taken lightly. In the unlikely event that nuclear war ever breaks out, it’s a safe bet that the world as we all know it will cease to exist, and any unlucky survivors will be ushered into a new kind of living hell.That’s where “Amble” comes in, a health startup selling boutique pharmaceutical solutions to 21st century problems. One of those solutions, spotted by writer Sean Morrow on X-formerly-Twitter, is an “Oh Sh*t Bag,” a millennial-coded sack of pills meant to keep you healthy — relatively speaking — in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear…
Local journalism in the US has spent the better part of two decades on life support. First came widespread digitization, which guttered subscriptions and left newspapers and magazines in shambles. Then private equity swooped in, snapping up publications like candy and turning them into digital ad farms run by skeleton crews.Add to this a steady erosion of trust in journalism and a drop-off in literacy overall, and the industry looks to be in worse than perhaps ever before. Yet, as the saying goes, things can always get worse — and one media company seems determined to drive the final nail…
Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it.Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at their pearls, after Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, potentially exposing anyone who wants to get away with using the tech without detection.The announcement has caused a meltdown in AI circles.“This watermark is the dumbest f*cking thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Are they going to ask you to provide an ID so you can write non-watermarked text?” seethed…
All is not well in the fourth estate.On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain.“AI has become my reading buddy,” began Nicholas Johnston, who formerly served as the news site’s editor-in-chief.According to Johnston, the tedious process of actually reading a book “makes it easy to lose the thread.” James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” for example, was “too dense” for “casual vacation reading.” So instead, he typed in a prompt.