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Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (368+ words) Published Feb 21, 2026 9:45 AM EST The AI industry's obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major strain on the electronics market. First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the roof....
3I/ATLAS Spraying Material as It Exits the Solar System
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (281+ words) Published Feb 21, 2026 6:00 AM EST Scientists have watched in fascination as interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, only the third of its kind spotted in the solar system so far, hurtled past several planets and made its closest pass of the Sun in October....
OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter's Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police
15+ hour, 14+ min ago (385+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 8:06 PM EST A grim scoop from the Wall Street Journal: an automated review system at OpenAI flagged disturbing conversations that a future mass shooter was having with the company's flagship AI ChatGPT " but, despite being urged by employees…...
OpenAI's Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe
19+ hour, 19+ min ago (553+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 4:01 PM EST Stuffing an AI chatbot into a consumer electronics device and turning out with a product people actually want has proven extremely difficult. We've come across creepy and widely-hated pendants designed to listen to everything you say,…...
Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them
20+ hour, 56+ min ago (454+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 9:24 AM EST Anthropic aired a spicy ad during this year's Super Bowl, skewering competitor OpenAI's decision to cram ChatGPT with ads for users who don't pay for a subscription. "Ads are coming to AI," the ad's tagline reads....
Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
20+ hour, 59+ min ago (432+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 2:21 PM EST Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block. Earlier this month, the company started laying off its staff as part of what Bloomberg characterized as an "efficiency…...
Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says
22+ hour, 18+ min ago (395+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 1:02 PM EST Depending on who you ask, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II is either the most sophisticated weapons platform ever built, or an $80 million disaster that's too fragile for rain and its namesake lightning. What it definitely is, Dutch…...
Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (340+ words) Published Feb 20, 2026 10:06 AM EST Eventually, it seems to turn out that every consumer product is killing you " from cooking utensils to menstrual care products, and literally the kitchen sink. Now, one of our most beloved creature comforts is getting its…...
Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (304+ words) Published Feb 19, 2026 12:04 PM EST Investors have been rattled by the enormous amount of money AI companies are committing to spend on infrastructure buildouts. Amazon alone saw its share price drop precipitously earlier this month after announcing that it's planning to…...
Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (314+ words) Published Feb 19, 2026 4:13 PM EST There's no love being lost between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. At India's AI Summit in New Delhi on Thursday, the respective CEOs of OpenAI and Athropic'shared the stage with roughly a dozen other industry and…...