30 May Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.
30 May 24 Best Father’s Day Gifts for Dads (2026) Dads are traditionally tough to shop for—let me help with these handpicked gift ideas for fathers with great taste.
30 May The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
29 May The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook Claims about low testosterone and false accusations of veganism might play well to the online far right, but will they win an election?
29 May Meta Copies Snapchat’s Homework Again With ‘Plus’ Features for Instagram and Facebook Meta’s upcoming Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus subscriptions are the latest example of the company seeing what works elsewhere and mimicking it.
29 May The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.
28 May Google Security Engineer Arrested in Million-Dollar Polymarket Trading Scheme According to federal prosecutors, Michele Spagnuolo made more than $1 million on the prediction market platform using confidential information about Google Search traffic.
28 May Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
28 May Huawei’s ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.
27 May Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.
