03 May Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store World opened the doors to its new San Francisco storefront with eight brand-new orbs ready for eyeballs to scan.
03 May DOGE Is in Its AI Era In its push for “efficiency,” DOGE has leaned increasingly on AI—regardless of whether it makes any sense. And it’s using it as an imperfect means to destructive ends.
03 May Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. “I don’t even know where to start with this,” says one expert.
02 May What Caused the European Power Outage? There’s still no official explanation for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France—but experts point to the makeup of the Iberian peninsula’s power grid.
02 May A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’ Meta’s contentious AI copyright battle is heating up—and the court may be close to a ruling.
02 May Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.
01 May RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.
01 May Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—then tried to cover up its disobedience.
01 May Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US At a high-profile event in San Francisco, World announced it is launching a series of Apple-like stores, as well as a partnership with dating giant Match Group.
30 Apr 12 Best Delivery Chocolate Boxes to Send and Receive (2025) We tasted dozens of chocolate boxes to find the best, from pure chocolate ecstasy to bundles of fun.