OpenAI: A Decade of Quiet Innovation and Explosive Growth It’s hard to believe that OpenAI, the AI juggernaut now synonymous with generative intelligence, quietly emerged onto the tech scene just 10 years ago. Founded in December 2015 as a non-profit by a consortium of tech luminaries—including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman—OpenAI’s […]
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Shrugs Off Elon Musk’s “Cartoon Imitation” Grokopedia as AI Hallucinations Plague Accuracy In an era where the internet has become increasingly “enshittified,” Wikipedia remains a rare bastion of the web’s original egalitarian promise. Free, meticulously cited, and perpetually self-auditing, the open-source encyclopedia has been hailed as one of the digital world’s […]
The US Navy’s Next-Generation Flight Helmet: A Technological Marvel That Redefines Pilot Safety and Combat Effectiveness For decades, US Navy pilots have relied on the HGU-55P and HGU-68P helmets, dependable but largely unchanged since their introduction in the 1980s and 1990s. That era of static design has now ended with the Navy’s groundbreaking $22.6 million […]
Here’s the rewritten news article with a more engaging, viral tone and expanded content: Winter Olympics Coverage Channeling the Golden Age of Snowboarding Video Games As someone whose childhood holidays consisted of narrowboating along the Grand Union canal or wandering the harbor-side at Whitby looking for vampires, I have never been on a skiing break. […]
Microsoft’s Return-to-Office Mandate Kicks In Next Week: What It Means for Employees and Seattle’s Tech Landscape The countdown has officially begun. Microsoft’s controversial return-to-office mandate, announced last September, is set to take effect on Monday, February 23, marking a seismic shift in the company’s workplace culture and potentially reshaping the daily rhythms of Seattle’s tech […]
eBay Acquires Depop from Etsy in $1.2B Deal, Betting Big on Gen Z’s Love for Second-Hand Fashion In a strategic move that signals the explosive growth of the second-hand fashion market, eBay has announced its acquisition of Depop from Etsy for approximately $1.2 billion. The deal, expected to close in the second quarter of this […]
Cryptocurrency Markets Defy Gravity as Trump’s New 10% Global Tariff Lands—Bitcoin and Ethereum Hold Strong While Traders Stay Calm In a dramatic twist of economic policy and digital asset resilience, cryptocurrency markets have shown surprising stability in the face of President Donald Trump’s latest trade maneuver. Despite the announcement of a sweeping 10% universal tariff […]
Pope Leo XIV Issues Bold Directive: No AI in Sermons, No ‘Likes’ on TikTok In a striking and unexpected move that has sent ripples across both the tech and religious communities, Pope Leo XIV has issued a firm directive prohibiting Catholic priests from using artificial intelligence to compose homilies or from seeking viral attention on […]
Nevada Regulators Sue Kalshi Hours After Federal Appeals Court Denies Stay Request In a high-stakes legal showdown that could reshape the future of prediction markets and sports betting regulation, Nevada gaming authorities have filed a civil enforcement lawsuit against Kalshi, the federally-regulated derivatives exchange, just hours after a federal appeals court declined to pause the […]
Trump Escalates Tariff War: Global Rates Jump to 15% as Crypto Markets Defy the Chaos In a dramatic escalation of his ongoing trade war, President Donald Trump has announced a sharp increase in global tariff rates, raising them from 10% to 15% effective immediately. The move comes just days after the Supreme Court struck down […]