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How an FCC letter kept Stephen Colbert’s interview with a Texas Senate hopeful off the air
Monday night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was missing something—an entire interview. But viewers weren’t left in the dark about why—host Stephen Colbert told his audience...
Palantir is caught in the middle of a brewing fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon
A dispute between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company’s technology has now gone public. Amid tense negotiations, Anthropic has reportedly called...
How the Olympic figure skating ‘Blade Angels’ could break a 20-year streak
From breathtaking jumps to mesmerizing spins, figure skating is one of the most popular sports at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. In a survey, 56% of 1,000...
The ‘America’s Next Top Model’ docuseries proves anti-nostalgia is the new nostalgia
Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model doesn’t begin in 2003, when America’s Next Top Model premiered and took television by storm. It doesn’t begin in the 1990s, when...
Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb
When European tech observers talk about AI ambition, the narrative often splits neatly in two: models and infrastructure. On one side are the clever bits of code that can...
You may soon be asked to pay for Snapchat content. Here’s how it works
Snap is hoping to snap up another revenue stream in its quest to reduce its dependency on advertising. The social media company announced on Tuesday that it will begin...
Why the EU just opened a formal probe into Shein
One of the companies best known for cranking out ultracheap goods is facing a serious investigation in Europe over concerns about illegal products and predatory business practices. The EU’s...
Why should you care about quantum computing?
Right now, criminal and state-sponsored hackers are intercepting and storing encrypted data they cannot yet decode. Likely targets include everything from corporate secrets and medical records to legal agreements...
Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond
Nothing is certain, they say, but death and taxes. But a new idea from Meta could add social media to that list. The tech giant was granted a patent...
Magnificent 7 stocks are down for 2 reasons in 2026. The second reason is outside their control
The new year has so far not been kind to the share price of Big Tech stocks, particularly the so-called Magnificent 7. These seven companies—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft,...
