After dumping over $80 billion into the Metaverse, Meta says it is officially ending the project.

The Trump administration is expected to get about $10 billion for brokering TikTok’s U.S. deal.

Instagram is ending its end-to-end encrypted messaging feature on May 8, 2026. They said the feature was rarely used, and ending it means the platform can access more message content for "safety checks".

Google is investing $1 million in an AI animation studio to create kids’ content for YouTube. Just one month ago, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan announced a crackdown on “AI slop.”

Meta contractors in Kenya say they are reviewing intimate footage from Ray-Ban AI glasses, including people undressing, using bathrooms, and filming sex. Workers say Meta’s automatic face anonymization often fails so faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. (1/2)

Gas prices in Europe jump 50% after QatarEnergy stops LNG production due to attacks on its facilities.

Claude is down after Iranian missile strikes hit AWS data centers in the UAE.

Anthropic’s Claude rises to #1 on the App Store.

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. is set to cut more than 4,000 positions, saying AI allows fewer people to do the same work. Just last September, the company reportedly spent $68M on a single party.

Iran has officially closed the Strait of Hormuz. The shutdown immediately blocks nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply.

IRS has reportedly broken the law around 42,695 times by sharing confidential data with ICE. It violated one of the strictest US statutes by disclosing taxpayers’ last known addresses without verification.

Elon Musk : "Anthropic hates Western Civilization"

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its models on classified systems.

Minnesota is moving to outlaw crypto kiosks after an increase in fraud affecting older residents.

Anthropic says no to the Pentagon’s last offer for unrestricted military access to its AI.

Netflix has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros. The company said increasing the bid would make the deal “no longer financially attractive.”

Pope Leo XIV has instructed priests to stop using ChatGPT or any AI to write their sermons. He said a true homily is about sharing faith, something AI can never do.

In recent high stakes war game simulations run by researchers, top AI systems used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of scenarios. None of the models ever chose to back down.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, says he is beginning to see echoes of the pre-2008 financial turmoil. “I see a couple of people doing some dumb (or foolish) things. They’re just doing dumb things to create net interest income.”

UK regulators have penalized Reddit £14 million after the platform failed to protect children’s private information.

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

Mark Zuckerberg says Instagram was never designed to get young people addicted. Last week, Instagram CEO said that using social media for 16 hours a day isn’t addiction.

NEW: The United States is developing an online portal called “freedom.gov” that will allow people worldwide to access content banned by their governments.

Ireland has opened a formal investigation into X over explicit images generated by Grok.

NEW: The DOJ is pressuring Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord to share the personal details of users who criticize ICE

Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but he hasn’t seen them. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.”

Instagram CEO says using social media 16 hours a day is not an addiction. Funny how that lines up with Meta profits.

$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday.

OpenAI forecasts a $14 BILLION loss in 2026. Is the AI hype bubble starting to crack?

Searches for “Discord alternatives” have increased by 10,000% overnight after Discord announced global age verification starting in March 2026.

The Olympic Games are getting slammed for using “AI slop” to promote the Winter Games.

An open-source tool called EpsteIn allows users to cross-check LinkedIn connections with publicly released Epstein court documents.

NEW: Federal judge bars ICE and DHS from using taxpayer data for immigration enforcement

BREAKING: Over $1 trillion has been wiped off the crypto market cap since January 14.

Following the Paris office raid, UK regulators have also opened a probe into X over AI imagery.

Spain to block social media access for children under 16

France and Europol have raided Elon Musk’s X office in Paris.

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement following allegations that it recorded private conversations. The company denies any wrongdoing but said it opted to settle rather than face the risks and uncertainty of a full trial.

New Epstein files reveal Elon Musk was emailing Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, years after Epstein’s conviction as a pedophile.

Elon Musk’s X has been fined €45 million by the European Union after authorities said users could be misled into thinking “Dunk Donald” was a real individual.

Apple has bought Israeli startup Qai, an AI firm developing technology to read “silent speech.” The deal is reportedly valued at nearly $2 billion, making it one of Apple’s largest acquisitions ever.

TikTok uninstalls have increased by 150% since Larry Ellison took over the platform in the U.S.

Breaking: A lawsuit against Meta claims WhatsApp can access virtually all of its 3 billion users’ supposedly “private” communications.

Head of US cyber defense agency CISA Madhu Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive documents into public ChatGPT, prompting a DHS investigation. Unreal levels of incompetence.

BREAKING: Meta whistleblowers claim that WhatsApp private chats can be accessed by the company, despite repeated promises of full end-to-end encryption. A US lawsuit alleges Meta misled billions of users worldwide about the true level of privacy. Business as usual at Meta: lie, deny, repeat.

This is how customer protection actually works. An 80-year-old retiree, Olga Panorovsky, was targeted by an online investment scam after clicking a misleading ad. Over the next 5 months, she made around 30 large withdrawals from her Chase Bank account totaling more than $1.3 million. (1/5)

In 2025, TikTok was fined the second largest GDPR penalty ever of $530 million after the company was found to be systematically transferring EU user data to China while assuring regulators it stayed in Europe. At least the EU did something, in most countries, this would be business as usual.

If you think Facebook’s rise came just from user engagement, think again.

Billionaire Larry Ellison once named his German yacht Izanami after a Shinto goddess, but people noticed the name spelled backward. He then quickly renamed it Ronin and later sold it. Coincidence?

ICE's surveillance has shown people just how bad data misuse can get. But it's not only your medical records or apps; everyday gadgets in your home are tracking more than you realize. Every device is a potential doorway into your life, and right now, that door is wide open.