China Just Trained a Frontier AI Model Without a Single Nvidia Chip - And the Implications Are Enormous
Meituan, China's food delivery giant, open-sourced LongCat-2.0: a 1.6 trillion-parameter model trained entire…
Joe Manning
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An AI Just Executed a Ransomware Attack By Itself. Here's Exactly What Happened - and Why It Changes Everything.
On June 30, 2026, a production database was encrypted by ransomware executed almost entirely by an autonomous…
The $600 Billion Gap: Why AI's Biggest Problem Has Nothing to Do With the Technology
The five largest tech companies are spending $700–$900 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Actual AI reve…
How to Actually Monetise a Website in 2026: An Honest Guide for Every Stage of Growth
Which ad network you should be on depends almost entirely on where you are in your traffic growth — not on wh…
The AI Data Center Building Boom Has Hit a Wall Nobody Saw Coming
The capital is committed, the announcements are made - and yet roughly half of planned US AI data center proj…
A German Court Just Ruled Google's AI Overviews Are Google's Own Words - And the Reasoning Could Reach Every AI Answer Engine on Earth
A Munich court ruled Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overview generated about two publisher…
Google's AI Overviews Are Quietly Strangling Website Traffic - Here's the Data, and Here's What Actually Still Works
AI Overviews now appear in 60% of US Google searches. For the sites that used to get those clicks, Ahrefs put…
The Most Popular Digital Payment Methods in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows
Digital wallets now account for the majority of global eCommerce transaction value. Here is what the actual d…
Handheld Gaming PCs Just Had Their Best Month Ever - Here's Why 2026 Is the Year They Stopped Being a Compromise
Computex 2026 was the moment handheld gaming PCs stopped asking buyers to forgive their limitations. Better b…
Samsung Galaxy S23 Green Line After One UI 8.5: What's Happening and What To Do
Galaxy S23 owners are waking up to green or pink vertical lines after installing One UI 8.5. Here's what's ca…
The UK Just Banned Social Media for Under-16s - Here's Why It Probably Won't Work
The UK has announced a full ban on social media for anyone under 16. The political impulse is genuine and the…
The Apps Everyone Is Quietly Deleting in 2026 - And What They're Using Instead
ChatGPT just became the most downloaded app on the planet, overtaking TikTok. A look at the news apps, to-do …