Venture capital is pouring into the creator economy, but the focus has sharply split. About $1.2 billion went to AI content creation startups like Synthesia, while social shopping platforms like Whatnot pulled in hundreds of millions more. The funding boom highlights two competing visions for the fu
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.
The AI streamer Neuro-Sama has broken her own Twitch Hype Train world record during her third birthday subathon. This time, she did it without any promotional help from the game Valorant.
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.
New reporting details how graduates from elite universities like Stanford are facing a brutal entry-level software job market. The prevailing idea is that AI has made junior developers redundant, but research tells a more complicated story.
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.
Federal regulators are taking a sledgehammer to crypto fraud. The SEC just charged three trading platforms and four investment clubs in a scheme that allegedly stole over $14 million from social media users. This is part of a massive enforcement push that saw $4.98 billion in crypto penalties in 202
The PBS Kids show ‘Cyberchase’ has been using animated adventures to teach math since 2002. Its creators now explicitly design episodes to combat sinking national math scores and the distraction of social media.
A scientist’s social media celebration about GPT-5 solving math problems turned out to be wrong. The real story is a lesson in AI hype versus reality, and a glimpse at what these models are actually good for.
