This week, we kick things off with the return of Space Karen’s meltdown tour: Elon Musk got flustered in an interview, sputtered out one-word answers, and called the journalist an “NPC,” which is rich coming from the guy whose only real upgrade since PayPal is yelling “freedom” in meme fonts. Meanwhile, 23andMe sold your DNA to Regeneron at a bankruptcy auction, proving once and for all that your spit is more valuable than most tech startups.
IN THE NEWS is a parade of corporate idiocy and dystopian fuckery. Coinbase employees got bribed into leaking user data (because clearly we didn’t have enough crypto chaos), Klarna keeps flip-flopping between AI and human workers like it’s a bad Tinder date, and OpenAI is out here buying Jony Ive’s design firm for $6.5 billion because sure, what’s another billion when you’re trying to build a surveillance device to stalk 100 million users? Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times is publishing AI-generated trash with imaginary authors, Anthropic’s new model attempts blackmail, and researchers dumped two billion Discord messages online just for kicks. And yes, Elon’s Tesla robotaxis will now only roam the safest parts of Austin, which is code for “we still can’t make this thing turn left.”
23andMe (and Your Genetic Data) Sold to Regeneron in Bankruptcy Auction
Extortionists bribed Coinbase employees to give them customer data
OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion
Sam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users' Lives
Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI
Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive's OpenAI deal
Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings
Klarna users are buying now, but not paying later
DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers
Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle
We’re Focused on the Wrong A.I. Problem in Journalism
Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
Researchers Dump 2 Billion Scraped Discord Messages Online
Musk says Tesla's self-driving tests will be geofenced to 'the safest' parts of Austin
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