By the end of this week’s media storm, the BBC found itself in that rarest and bleakest of positions: condemned by the right, abandoned by much of the left, and defended by precisely no one. It began, as these things tend to, with a Telegraph splash — “BBC’s Trump
Ah, humanity. The species that can design quantum computers but still believes free bus rides are utopian. This week, New York elected Zohran Mamdani, a man whose promises — free childcare, rent freezes, city-run grocery stores — have been denounced by respectable pundits as “unrealistic.” Europeans, meanwhile, yawned. In Tallinn, you can
Coca-Cola’s 2025 holiday ad is here, and it’s real in the same way plastic snow is cold — which is to say, not at all. The soda giant has proudly announced that its latest Christmas commercial was generated entirely by AI, with even fewer humans than last year’s
Patrick Gelsinger, recently expelled from Intel’s temple of silicon, has reappeared in full crusader regalia. His new mission: to build a Christian AI that will, in his words, “hasten the coming of Christ’s return.” At last, a CEO with the audacity to automate the apocalypse. His company, Gloo,
The man who once promised to save humanity with electric cars and Mars rockets has now decided to “save civilization” with… an encyclopedia that rewrites it. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, launched this week, claims to be “fact-checked by AI” — namely, his own chatbot Grok — and promises a “right-leaning” alternative to
So it’s come to this: LinkedIn, the land of “I’m humbled to announce” and “so proud of my amazing team,” now wants your humblebrag to feed Microsoft’s next neural cash cow. For years, residents of Europe, Canada, and Hong Kong could rest a little easier knowing that
It’s October, but you could be forgiven for thinking April Fool’s Day arrived early. The European Commission has just accused Meta — the trillion-dollar parent company of Facebook and Instagram — of breaching EU law by making it absurdly difficult for users to flag illegal content. The finding, part of
When the great machine hiccups, the humans panic—and then, just for a moment, they breathe. On Monday, Amazon Web Services—the unseen nervous system of global capitalism—stopped twitching. Lights refused to obey, exams vanished into the digital ether, and armies of underpaid gig workers sat idle, staring at
From orbit, the heatmaps are impossible to ignore: red flares of human defiance blooming across every state of the Union. Millions of Americans, costumed as frogs, lobsters, and SpongeBobs, walking in the streets to declare the oldest principle of the republic — no kings. The irony, of course, is that the
At last, liberation has come to the chat window. After years of stern digital abstinence, OpenAI has decided to let its models blush. The age of erotica is dawning—safely fenced behind an “age-gating” form, where consenting adults may finally flirt with the algorithm without pretending they’re asking for
The irony would be delicious if it weren’t so chilling. Eighty years after antifascists bled to stop Nazism, Europe’s far right is now trying to brand “antifa” — literally anti-fascism — as terrorism. From Geert Wilders’ Netherlands to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, reactionary leaders are racing to copy Donald Trump’
Brussels, our shining techno-bureaucratic temple, has once again proven that it knows exactly how to tackle Europe’s most pressing challenges: by protecting citizens from the mortal confusion of mistaking a tofu patty for a cow. Yes, fellow humans, while war rumbles at Europe’s borders, energy prices wobble like