Country music has a new chart-topping star, except, well, he doesn’t actually exist. Meet Breaking Rust, the latest “artist” to hit number one on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart with a track called Walk My Walk. The song has racked…
Wikipedia wants AI to stop mooching (and maybe pay up a little)
Wikipedia has a message for the robots: if you’re going to gorge on our knowledge buffet, at least leave a tip. In a Monday blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit brain behind everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia, unveiled its plan to…
OpenAI wants Trump administration help fund $1.4 trillion AI dream
OpenAI has some big plans (like “rebuild-the-internet-and-the-power-grid” big) and now it’s politely asking the US government for a little help footing the bill. In a recently surfaced letter to the White House, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, pitched the…
Elon Musk celebrates $1 trillion Tesla win with AI love video
Elon Musk is having quite a weekend, and in true Elon fashion, it’s equal parts tech demo, internet chaos, and existential cringe. Fresh off Tesla shareholders approving a trillion-dollar compensation package, Musk decided to celebrate not with champagne, but with some…
Landlords are using AI to catfish renters with fake apartment photos
Landlords have leveled up their deception game: suddenly, those drab, grim apartments online glow with sunlight and sport furniture that looks straight out of a Silicon Valley startup’s lounge. But spoiler alert, what you see is almost never what you get….
Meta has a $16 billion scam problem (or revenue)
Meta would really like you to believe it’s the hero of the internet, bravely battling misinformation, bots, and bad vibes. But according to a new Reuters report, there’s another booming business on Facebook and Instagram, scams, and Meta is making billions…
Gemini AI gets permission to raid your entire Google workspace
Google’s Gemini AI can now rummage through your private email threads, Docs, Drive files, and even Chat logs to fuel its “deep research” mode, merging web info with whatever productivity clutter you’ve got lying around your workspace. According to The Verge,…
Anthropic thinks it’ll be swimming in $70 billion by 2028
Anthropic just looked into its crystal ball (or spreadsheet) and says it’s on track to make up to $70 billion in revenue by 2028, plus a casual $17 billion in cash flow. Yes, billion with a B. The forecast comes from The…
Sora lands on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions
OpenAI’s TikTok-meets-Hollywood AI video toy, Sora, has finally arrived on Android, specifically in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. After debuting on iOS in September and instantly zooming to the top of the App Store with a million…
Amazon boots Perplexity AI’s shopping bot for breaking rules
Amazon has officially told Perplexity AI to take its shopping bot and kindly exit the world’s biggest digital mall. The drama, because of course there’s drama, went public on Tuesday after both companies confirmed that Amazon had kicked Perplexity’s “Comet” shopping…