Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech Turns out the AI that tells you what you want to hear is also the AI that gets things wrong. Oxford researchers prove that warmth and accuracy are fundamentally at odds.
⚡ Tech Cursor has negative 23% gross margins. Replit has 300% net revenue retention. The AI coding tool shakeout isn't about who builds the best IDE — it's about who survives long enough to matter.
⚡ Tech Someone built a self-hosted AI app that processes receipts and invoices automatically. It's called TaxHacker, and it's genuinely useful for small businesses drowning in expense claims.
⚡ Tech Gemini now creates PDFs, spreadsheets, docs and more directly from chat. The copy-paste era of AI is officially over.
⚡ Tech The human cost of AI: Meta cuts 8,000 jobs; OpenAI lawsuit raises duty-of-care questions; NZ regulatory gap widens
⚡ Tech ChatGPT's ads aren't just showing up — they come with a sophisticated tracking system that monitors what you do after you click.
⚡ Tech A 42-year-old math problem fell in 12 hours with AI help. But the researcher says it's a tool, not a co-author — and that distinction matters more than you'd think.
⚡ Tech Anthropic study shows hiring drops for young workers in AI-exposed fields, the PocketOS database deletion goes viral, Manifest AI challenges the billable hour, and Taylor Swift trademarks her voice.
⚡ Tech AGI will end work as we know it, says Altman. Also, he can't stop working because GPT-5.5 is too good. The cognitive whiplash is the whole point.
⚡ Tech Claude Code now has app-store-style marketplace with 600+ pre-built agents you can install in one command. Open source, free, and it works with Cursor and Codex too.
⚡ Tech SpaceX is building its own chips. The company's IPO filing reveals a bold plan to escape NVIDIA dependency — but the risks are enormous.
⚡ Tech Cloud AI apps are reading your browser, training on your data, and changing your system settings without asking. Here's how to run frontier AI locally — with zero data leaving your machine.