The people building the machines think we should lose to them on purpose. An invite-only symposium in New York brought together AI successionists who believe AI should replace humanity as Earth's dominant species, not serve it.
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The world's smallest biometric sensor just got funding to go public — and it knows more about your sleep than you do. Oura launched Ring 5, 40% smaller than Ring 4, at 2.28mm thick with extended battery life, tracking sleep, stress, readiness, and heart health
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When a private tech company's experimental model makes a better hurricane forecast than the National Weather Service's entire infrastructure, we're not talking about incremental improvement—we're talking about a sovereignty shift in critical infrastructure.
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Roku waited 13 years to follow everyone else into content-first home screens, and that patience might be the whole point. Roku is replacing its 13-year-old grid of app tiles with a content-recommendation-first home screen, rolling out to 100 million U.S. households now, international later
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The gender gap in AI adoption isn't a bug—it's a feature worth studying before we automate ourselves into a corner. Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says student skepticism about AI—especially among women—reflects legitimate concerns about energy use, errors, and tech concentration
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The guy who taught startups to pivot is now telling them the entire foundation of corporate capitalism needs one.
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The person who built the tool eating software jobs says the feast is just starting. Boris Cherny, lead engineer behind Claude Code at Anthropic, predicts major software engineering job losses from AI automation while also forecasting new job creation in areas humans still dominate.
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The first American Pope just told Silicon Valley it's building a digital slave economy, and he invited Anthropic to the announcement. Pope Leo XIV released *Magnifica Humanitas*, his first encyclical, calling for AI development to slow while society builds moral guardrails and democratic oversight
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The world's smartest AI companies are quietly admitting something their pitch decks don't: intelligence isn't plug-and-play yet. OpenAI launched a "Deployment Company" to embed engineers inside customer organizations. Anthropic and Google are hiring similar roles. This is not a coincidence.
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The companies building the infrastructure for AI agents are all controlled by the same five people—and now they're about to own tradable stakes in each other's empires.
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The same sensors tracking an NHL captain's comeback are sitting in insoles at your gym right now—quantified performance just went from clipboard to commodity.
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Spotify just decided the best defense against AI music is more AI music, and labeled everything else "slop." Spotify launched an AI remix feature for Premium users that lets them create covers and remixes using music from participating artists, built through a deal with Universal Music Group
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The biggest IPO in history is a space company—and the valuation has almost nothing to do with rockets. SpaceX is raising $75 billion at a $1.75-2 trillion valuation, the largest IPO ever attempted. The company controls 51% of global orbital launches and 85% of satellites deployed in 2025.
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The Vatican just told Silicon Valley to slow down, and unlike your average AI ethics board, this one claims 2,000 years of moral authority.
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Scotland wrote its "green datacenter" playbook in 2022—before anyone knew AI would eat the grid for breakfast. Scotland's national policy defines "green datacentres" using 2022 standards—pre-ChatGPT, pre-AI boom
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The robots aren't coming for your job — they're making you do more of it. Dan Shipper argues AI won't eliminate work but will create "abundant, tedious work" — more outputs requiring more human oversight, refinement, and judgment calls
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The world's most powerful AI companies just watched the White House blink first. Trump scrapped a planned executive order requiring government safety reviews of new AI models hours before signing, citing competition with China as justification
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The picks-and-shovels trade just revealed its own shovel might be made of debt. Oracle's stock has plunged 43% since its September 2025 peak, erasing gains from its $300 billion OpenAI deal that briefly made Larry Ellison the world's richest man.
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The fight over who gets to decide how AI watches London just became a very public test of whether local officials can say no to surveillance tech once the cops say yes.
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The man building Google's brain just put a date on when machines match humans—and he's more worried about the journey than the destination.
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