In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

So what changed? It was not immediately clear why. A NASA spokesperson in Washington, DC, offered no comment on the ...
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Roundtables: Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet

Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies ...
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Reddit vs. Wall Street: the latest in the GameStop saga

It hasn’t been a good day for WallStreetBets, as GameStop’s stock has plummeted today. AMC, the community’s other bet, dropped ...
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Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE

Before Trump was inaugurated, the USDS administrator was Mina Hsiang. After she left, Ted Carstensen was the highest-ranking legacy USDS ...
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Tesla Targeted With Worldwide Protests, Vandalism

Around the world, folks angry at Elon Musk’s new turn as an unelected White House wrecker are taking it out ...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know

After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed ...
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What is DeepSeek AI? Is it safe? Here’s everything you need to know

Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Just weeks into its new-found fame, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is moving at breakneck speed, toppling competitors and ...
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Investors Are Once Again Rapidly Minting Early-Stage Startups As Unicorns

Through the past couple years, investors have talked about how the calming of the venture market was good, allowing more ...
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Evolving Intelligent Life May Not Have Been as Unlikely as Many Scientists Predicted

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial ...
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