The dead internet theory has floated around internet forums since the 2010s, and the idea that the internet is dominated by non-human activity was often dismissed as a fringe conspiracy. Now it has become a measurable fact. Not only do…
Elon Musk wants the most advanced AI models to be reviewed before they’re released—but he doesn’t want the government to be the one reviewing them. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said the leading AI companies should work together to police…
Republican Steve Hilton launched his general election campaign for California governor Wednesday with a gambit to win over left-leaning voters who dominate the state: Even if they loathe President Donald Trump, he said, they should consider voting for him. During an event in Los…
The “Golden Age of Science” had no scientists. For nearly three centuries, discoverers like Darwin and Copernicus, still wrestling to break free from Greek thought, called themselves “natural philosophers.” They made discoveries based on their own curiosity. The purest of…
President Trump told a cheering crowd at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22 that “affordability” was a term invented by his political opponents, recounting the exact moment he says he first heard it: at his very first…
MoonPay says it has made a big advance in the nascent field of using AI agents for consumer purchases. On Thursday, the payments company unveiled Paybox, a new wallet tool that users can plug into their Claude or ChatGPT screens,…
C-suite executives from around the world could have been forgiven for reaching for the atlas when the former Mayor of Manchester (a smallish city 200 miles north of London) became the U.K.’s seventh prime minister in ten years. Andy Burnham is so keen to make the city he once ran the heart of…
For most of 2026, ServiceNow has been Exhibit A for the “SaaSpocalypse”—the fear that autonomous AI agents will let companies build their own workflows and gut demand for traditional enterprise software. The stock entered Wednesday down roughly a third for…
The U.S.-Iran war is not going fantastically well for either side. President Trump has been unable to conduct the negotiations he had hoped for and reach a final deal over the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran’s military infrastructure—and a great…
Good morning. Is the American Dream still about getting ahead, or just about not falling behind? Bill Ackman wants to get back to when success inspired rather than divided people. “When I grew up, if a guy in my neighborhood…