According to a science journalist, we consistently misread science fiction by either fetishizing its dystopian tech or treating it as a literal blueprint. Both mistakes blind us to the genre’s real power: to question the world as it is.
Mill, the food waste startup from Nest’s founders, just locked in a major deal with Whole Foods. Starting in 2027, every store will get a commercial Mill bin. The strategy? Sell to executives at home first.
A major custom PC company is now letting customers mail in their own RAM kits for new builds. This bizarre workaround highlights a severe, multi-year shortage that’s sending memory prices through the roof and scrambling the entire industry.
The CEO of software giant Databricks isn’t mincing words about the current AI investment craze. Ali Ghodsi calls the trend of funding companies with zero revenue “clearly a bubble” and “insane,” predicting the situation will deteriorate over the next 12 months.
Samsung’s chip fabrication business is on a serious hot streak. After landing deals with Apple and Tesla, it’s now reportedly in talks to manufacture Google’s most powerful AI chips. This could be a game-changer for the semiconductor industry’s balance of power.
Samsung is pushing to make India a core manufacturing hub, not just for phones but for critical components like displays. The move leverages government incentive schemes and could reshape global supply chains.
Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI chief and OpenAI cofounder, published his 2025 year-in-review for LLMs. He doubled down on his prediction that “vibe coding,” a term he coined in February, will “terraform software and alter job descriptions.”
Seekr and advisory firm Stephano Slack have developed AI agents to automate financial data extraction. The tech reduces manual work from 50 hours to just two for certain audits. It’s part of a push to bring scalable AI to middle-market firms.
Apple has been hit with a €93 million ($115.4M) fine by Italy’s competition authority. The regulator says Apple abused its App Store dominance to force restrictive privacy rules on third-party developers, harming their revenue.
The tech industry has seen over 122,000 layoffs in 2025 so far, with AI increasingly cited as a direct reason for job cuts. Companies like Amazon, Salesforce, and IBM are using automation to replace functions, while economic policy shifts add to the uncertainty.
