Robot wars – what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future
After Ukraine’s President Zelensky said territory had been captured using just robots and drones, what is the future of unmanned warfare?
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Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools
You might think the big story out of Match Group’s first-quarter earnings is Tinder’s turnaround. The dating app’s revenue is slightly up again after quarter-after-quarter of declines. But we’d like to point to a comment the chief financial officer made about how the company is slowing its hiring right now because it needs more money…
Uber and Disney are seeing the same remarkable dynamic in this economy. Both stocks are surging
Higher gasoline prices and mounting geopolitical tensions are doing little to slow the American consumer — at least judging by the latest results and commentary from Uber Technologies and The Walt Disney Company. The two companies pointed to a remarkably resilient spending backdrop, with consumers continuing to shell out for rides, food delivery, vacations and…
Howard Lutnick to answer questions from US House over Jeffrey Epstein ties | Jeffrey Epstein
The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, will appear before the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday to answer questions over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick agreed in March to sit for a transcribed interview with the committee following the justice department’s release of millions of documents related to Epstein, which included documents…
Maury Povich Just Brought Back His Show for an AI Ad
Maury Povich has gone full 2010 James Franco lately, revisiting his 1990’s on-air paternity-test days with Ricki Lake on his new podcast a few weeks ago and then one-upping the meta-ness with an appearance last week as himself — serving up a lie-director test to settle a Pinky-Phaedra argument — on The Real Housewives of Atlanta….
OPEC Output Falls to New 36-Year Low on Iran War, Survey Shows
OPEC’s crude production fell to a new 36-year low last month as the Iran war continued to choke off exports from the Persian Gulf and forced further shut-ins, according to a Bloomberg survey.
CNN founder Ted Turner dead at 87 | News
No cause of death disclosed for media mogul who revolutionised news broadcasting. Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026 Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included the groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reports, citing a press release from Turner Enterprises. He was…
Greatest science books: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is still a vital science read, 13 years after it was first published For Indigenous peoples, Western science has rarely been a neutral enterprise. Its history is entangled with colonialism, dispossession and extraction, and with institutions that converted knowledge into power, wealth and policy. Fifteen years after the United…
Chrome Downloads A 4GB AI File Without User Consent, Researcher Alleges
If you’ve paid any attention to Google lately, you know that it wants us using its AI tools. So much so that Chrome apparently downloads a 4GB file containing details for running Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device LLM. Computer scientist Alexander Hanff published the details earlier this week on his website The Privacy Guy and goes…
Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded
New research suggests glacier melt driven by climate change is increasing the risk of giant waves.