Meta Loses First-Ever Addiction Lawsuit as Section 230 Shield Cracks
A jury just punched through Section 230's shield and handed Meta and YouTube a $3 million negligence verdict for social media addiction.
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Iran Strike Sends Oil to $95 While AI Promises to Kill Demand
The world's biggest energy conference is running two movie screens at once, and nobody knows which one to watch. CERAWeek in Houston is split between Iran war volatility rattling oil markets and AI power demand reshaping the grid, with executives struggling to price both risks simultaneously.
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Meta President: America Needs 500,000 Electricians in Two Years or Loses AI Race
Meta's president just put a number on the AI infrastructure gap: half a million electricians, needed in two years, or America loses the race.
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Warner Tells AOC Her AI Data Center Ban Is "Idiocy
The Democratic Party just split wide open on AI infrastructure, and the fracture line runs straight through 2028. Sen. Mark Warner called a proposed AI data center moratorium "idiocy" at Axios' AI+DC Summit, directly rebutting Sanders-AOC legislation introduced the same day
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François Chollet's New Benchmark Exposes What AI Still Can't Do
François Chollet just dropped a benchmark that measures what AI actually can't do yet, and the timing couldn't be more pointed.
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OpenAI Kills Its TikTok Clone After Users Reject AI Slop
OpenAI just killed its TikTok clone after a few months because nobody wanted to scroll infinite AI fever dreams. OpenAI shut down Sora's social media platform, refocusing on enterprise services and coding tools after months of anemic growth
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Breaking News Clicks Surge 103% While AI Overviews Kill Everything Else
While AI overviews are eating media traffic alive, breaking news clicks are up 103%, and the reason reveals exactly where human journalism still wins. Global publisher traffic from Google dropped one-third last year, with organic search down 42% according to Define Media Group analysis
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Newsom Says Musk Handed America's EV Lead to China
The governor who made Elon Musk is calling him out for handing America's EV lead to China. California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Elon Musk "one of the great disappointments" of this era, accusing him of abandoning EVs for robotics while China now controls 70% of the global EV market
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Anthropic Ships the Mac AI Apple Can't
Anthropic just shipped what Apple promised a year ago and still hasn't delivered: an AI that can actually control your Mac. Claude now has "computer use" capability in research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, letting it point, click, and navigate your screen to complete tasks without setup.
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OpenAI Kills Sora After 8 Months of Burning Cash
OpenAI is killing Sora after eight months, and the corpse tells you everything about where AI money is flowing in 2026. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app, including the iOS app, API, and web experience, citing resource constraints and strategic focus.
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Microsoft's AI Red Team Has Been Breaking AI Since Before ChatGPT Existed
Microsoft's AI Red Team has been stress-testing models for jailbreaks and weaponization since 2018, and they're seeing attack techniques evolve faster than most people realize.
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Booz Allen Gets Sued After Employee Leaks Senator's Tax Returns
A senator is suing his way toward answering the quiet question every agency, contractor, and platform should be asking: who's actually liable when your people steal data?
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Fast Company Just Listed the Web4 Companies Without Knowing It
Fast Company's 2026 finance innovators list is actually a snapshot of Web4 infrastructure being built in plain sight. Fast Company's 2026 finance innovation honorees reveal AI agents (Ramp's expense approval automation) and tokenization plays (Robinhood's stock tokenization) as the dominant themes
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AI fluency will split America into two classes faster than college degrees did
The next class divide won't be about who has access to AI, it'll be about who knows how to make it work. Anthropic's new data shows experienced AI users get 10% better results than newcomers, regardless of task, location, or model used.
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WorkOS Cuts Auth Integration From 3 Days to One CLI Command
WorkOS just turned auth integration into a conversation with Claude instead of a three-day engineering sprint. WorkOS launched a CLI tool that uses an AI agent to read your codebase, detect your framework, and write complete auth integration code without requiring signup first
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Trump's AI Czar Wants Federal Override of All 50 State Laws
The White House wants to write one rulebook for AI and erase the other 50. The Trump administration asked Congress to preempt state AI laws, pushing a single federal framework it calls "One Rulebook" to replace what it sees as a patchwork of state regulations.
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Musk Building Texas Chip Factory After TSMC Proves Too Slow
Musk just announced he's building his own chip fab in Texas because TSMC and Samsung aren't moving fast enough for his AI ambitions. Musk unveiled Terafab, an Austin chip factory meant to supply SpaceX, xAI (which just merged), and presumably Tesla's robot push
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Teachers Deploy AI to 85% of Classrooms Without Safety Protocols
American classrooms are running a mass deployment experiment with AI, and nobody wrote the manual. 85% of K-12 teachers now use AI, mostly for curriculum development, while 86% of students have used AI tools, half for actual schoolwork.
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Pentagon 3D-Prints $200K Cruise Missiles That Cost $2M Yesterday
The Pentagon is 3D-printing cruise missiles for $200,000 that used to cost $2 million, and the factory doing it can switch to making McLaren parts with zero downtime.
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Google's Gemini Just Beat OpenAI on Every Benchmark That Matters
Sundar Pichai spent two years turning an embarrassment into a lead. Google's Gemini 3 models beat OpenAI and Anthropic across industry benchmarks, sometimes by dramatic margins, with Gemini 3 Pro and Flash already powering Search and other products.
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