Sure, America occasionally has a “The White House is photoshopping the president’s head onto Superman posters” problem, but it turns out plenty of other countries also have a bit of an issue with politicians leveraging pop culture cosplaying for political gain. It’s just that those other countries will have studios telling them to quit it. […]
The Hashtag That Shows Trump Is Losing Control of MAGA
President Donald Trump is navigating one of the most perilous periods of his two combined terms as a firestorm of controversy over the so-called “Epstein Files” divides his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and fuels an unprecedented online rebellion against him. The president, a master of online communication, now finds himself on the defensive […]
How Elon Musk Created a Nightmare for Donald Trump
On June 5, Elon Musk did something no one had managed to do since Donald Trump first stormed the political stage in 2015: he destabilized the king of Make America Great Again (MAGA). It started with a now-deleted bombshell post on X (formerly Twitter). “Time to drop the really big bomb. Donald Trump is in […]
Bitcoin Hits New Highs Daily, but Experts Warn It’s a ‘Crisis Mode’ Rally
Bitcoin’s historic rally continues with no signs of slowing down. The world’s most famous cryptocurrency hit an all-time high overnight from Sunday to Monday, briefly surpassing the symbolic threshold of $123,000 before pulling back slightly. By 6:00 a.m. ET, it was hovering around $122,013, according to data from CoinGecko. This staggering surge marks a more […]
Elon Musk’s AI Was Ordered to Be Edgy. It Became a Monster
For 16 hours this week, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok stopped functioning as intended and started sounding like something else entirely. In a now-viral cascade of screenshots, Grok began parroting extremist talking points, echoing hate speech, praising Adolf Hitler, and pushing controversial user views back into the algorithmic ether. The bot, which Musk’s company xAI […]
Bernie Sanders Reveals the AI ‘Doomsday Scenario’ That Worries Top Experts
Artificial intelligence promises a future of unprecedented productivity and wealth, but for Senator Bernie Sanders, the crucial question isn’t if the technology will change the world, but who will benefit from that change. As a lifelong champion for workers’ rights, Sanders sees the rapid advancement of AI not just as a technological revolution, but as […]
As Zuck Races to Build Godlike AI, Women and People of Color Aren’t Invited
Mark Zuckerberg has a new mission: build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a form of AI that can reason and learn like a human.To do that, he’s assembled an elite team of researchers, engineers, and AI veterans from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Apple, and more. This new unit, called Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), is tasked with building […]
Crypto Is on Fire as Bitcoin Nears $120K in Unstoppable Surge
Bitcoin is surging once again. And this time, the climb feels different. The world’s largest cryptocurrency continued its dizzying ascent on Friday, smashing through multiple symbolic price thresholds in a matter of hours and setting a new all-time high for the second consecutive day. After crossing $112,000 on Wednesday, Bitcoin has barely paused. On Thursday […]
Elon Musk’s Space Baby Is Ignoring His Drama
It hasn’t been a great summer for Elon Musk’s empire. The billionaire has been making headlines not for rockets or robots, but for explosive political drama. After pouring nearly $290 million of his own money into the 2024 election cycle to help Donald Trump return to the White House, Musk has now formed his own […]
Sam Altman Feels ‘Politically Homeless’ As Frenemy Musk Proposes Third Party
Sam Altman is grappling with his political alignment. The 40-year-old CEO of OpenAI, like many of his fellow tech executives in recent years, has expressed that he does not feel at home in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. In an extended post on X, Altman lamented the fact that he’s now “politically homeless” and […]