The gadgets and platforms shaping pop culture.
Odysseus, the free self-hosted AI workspace built by Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg, has blown past 76,000 GitHub stars within a month, pitching a simple idea: own your AI instead of renting it.
Tencent, led by Pony Ma, has begun rolling out Dayuan, a DeepSeek V4-powered AI agent for its WeCom workplace app, as it races Alibaba and ByteDance in enterprise AI.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son waved off Elon Musk's vision of orbital AI data centers, insisting the race will be won by whoever builds computing power on Earth first.
Andrej Karpathy says AI assistants are outgrowing the standalone chatbot, turning into persistent, org-wide collaborators that live inside the tools people already use.
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says X feels more toxic than at any point in his nearly two decades on the platform, and owner Elon Musk responds by calling for a complete algorithm overhaul.
After two marquee researchers walked out the door and the stock wobbled, DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis insists Google still pulls in more than its share of elite AI talent.
Cate Blanchett unveiled the Human Consent Registry, a free platform letting people decide how AI can use their name, image, voice and likeness.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman delivered blunt verdicts on the AI landscape, panning xAI, questioning SpaceX's AI label, and arguing OpenAI and Anthropic can both win.
Jensen Huang told Nvidia shareholders that data centers built from smuggled chips are a dead end and that U.S. national security comes ahead of any overseas sale.
Larry Ellison's Oracle shed roughly 21,000 roles over the past year, with the company citing restructuring and the growing deployment of AI across its operations.
Ethereum's co-founder volunteered his own anonymous writing as bait in a public test of whether AI can strip the mask off pseudonymous crypto contributors.
Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly made a standalone prediction market app, codenamed 'Arena', a top priority at Meta as the betting-on-outcomes sector booms.
