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Animator Jorge R. Gutierrez sparked outrage by comparing AI animation for Amazon's Punky Duck to "having sex and then they hand you the baby." The remark, amid Sora's shutdown and persistent hallucinations in generated footage, exposed deep industry rifts…

New Texas DMV data reveals Waymo operates 577 robotaxis while Tesla runs just 42, a 13-to-1 gap. The filings expose Tesla's slow progress against Musk's earlier promises and Waymo's established scale across multiple cities.…

Studies from Brookings, NBER and others show Trump's ICE enforcement surge caused 668,000 job losses across 86 cities, with 51,000 to 297,000 hitting American-born workers.…

Microsoft's threat to invoke its Digital Crimes Unit against researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public Windows zero-day disclosures has ignited fierce debate.…

Developers now decline assignments without AI coding tools, yet METR's controlled study found experienced programmers took 19% longer with them. Companies like Amazon and Uber see costs soar without productivity gains.…

Julia Stewart fixed Applebee’s, was denied the CEO role with a blunt “No, not ever,” then led IHOP to buy the chain for $2.3 billion and fired her former boss.…

Samuel Smith lost his guitar playing to Parkinson’s but used AI music generators like Suno after humming melodies to create demos for his new album. The process enabled collaboration with top session musicians and preserved his songwriting.…

A Waymo robotaxi accelerated to highway speeds through a construction zone while fleeing police, terrifying passengers who feared for their lives. The May incident prompted the company to suspend freeway operations in four major cities.…

Workers facing AI displacement experience grief-like emotions that erode professional identity and purpose long before layoffs occur. Clinical proposals like AIRD and rising reports of anxiety, depression and isolation reveal a psychological crisis…

Dogecoin hovers near $0.10 with over 170 billion tokens in circulation. As ETFs open institutional doors and developers push Layer-2 upgrades, analysts debate its place in a maturing market. Recent forecasts point to a 2026 range of $0.145-$0.249.…

One researcher released six Windows zero-day exploits in six weeks after a dispute with Microsoft. Three are already exploited in real intrusions. The feud now includes account bans, legal threats and promises of more severe drops.…

Nuclear energy has surged back as the preferred power source for AI data centers amid exploding electricity demand. Tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google have committed tens of billions to nuclear deals and small modular reactors.…

Code in the newest Apple Music Android beta reveals messages about skip limits and premium access, hinting at tiered plans. The discovery comes shortly after the service's VP called free tiers a terrible idea.…

DESKi's HeartFocus Link connects a tablet via HDMI to any cart-based ultrasound system, delivering real-time AI probe guidance and quality scoring for the 10 standard cardiac views.…

A FINRA panel ordered JPMorgan Chase to pay former Beverly Hills broker Brent Ryan Bodner $4.25 million after firing him over a disputed $642.50 deli platter for a pre-approved client meeting.…

GitHub Copilot switches to token-based billing via AI Credits on June 1, replacing flat-rate access with metered usage that has some developers projecting bills from $29 to $750 or higher.…

Voicing concerns about AI's environmental harm, copyright theft, job losses and disinformation carries a steep price in tech circles. Professionals face isolation, lost opportunities and severed relationships.…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues hyperscalers' AI capital spending, already near $700 billion this year, will climb toward trillions annually. Strong ROI, the shift to agentic systems, and 1,000x greater compute needs than classical systems drive continued…

Bitcoin Depot shuttered 9,700 ATMs after a 49% revenue drop and filed Chapter 11, joining miners like NFN8, BitRiver and Bitfarms that exited amid price weakness, high costs and regulatory pressure.…

SpaceX won a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites for President Trump’s Golden Dome system. The deal expands the company’s central role in a multi-layered defense architecture that blends sensors, interceptors and AI processing.…