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The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

Policy, Politics, Report /

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the “Tech Corps,” threatens to unravel the agency’s original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI – many of which […]

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Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

AI, Analysis, Entertainment, Film, Report, TV Shows /

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we’ve seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips’ star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise)

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Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

Antitrust, Entertainment, Policy, Politics, Report /

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer – just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year’s biggest anti-monopoly cases in court. Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly, via a post on her personal X account. But to those who follow the agency closely, it

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Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is

Analysis, Entertainment, Gaming, Report, Xbox /

The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious future for gaming that looks a lot like Netflix. And while its subscription service Game Pass started out as a good deal for gamers (although now not so much),

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If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, it wouldn’t be drowning us in it

AI, Creators, Report, Social Media, Tech /

Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the

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Stellantis is in a crisis of its own making

Cars, Electric Cars, Report, Transportation /

Antonio Filosa attends the presentation of the new Fiat 500 Hybrid at the Stellantis FIAT Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, in November of 2025. | Elisa Marchina/NurPhoto via Getty Images Demand for EVs has gone glacial, and one automaker after another is running aground: General Motors threw $7.6 billion overboard. Ford washed $19.5 billion off

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Trump Mobile is just Liberty Mobile in gold foil

Gadgets, Mobile, Phones, Policy, Report, Tech /

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. This week, we explain how the presidential phone company connects to an older company that’s really running the show. We’ve long known that Trump Mobile was linked to Liberty Mobile, a carrier that’s traded for years using freedom-themed branding to sell cheap

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Nintendo turned its biggest flop into an expensive, uncomfortable novelty

Analysis, Entertainment, Gaming, Nintendo, Report /

I’ve written about a lot of different video game hardware over the years, from new consoles to retro gadgets to whatever you want to call the Playdate. But I can’t remember ever being perpetually sore from testing a device; such are the joys of the Virtual Boy. Nintendo has turned its biggest flop into an

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The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

Law, Meta, Policy, Report, Social Media, Tech /

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram – despite the risks. Boland’s testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the

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