Every day, Trader Joe’s donates all its close-to-expiry but edible products. In 2023 alone, those donations amounted over $469 million.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his company is the first to be “completely woke-free.”

Apple is planning to launch a new “iPhone Pocket” for $229. A bag for your phone, and it costs more than some phones.

According to leaked internal documents, in 2024, Meta made 10% of its revenue, around $16 billion, from scam ads, illegal gambling, and fake medical product promotions. www.reuters.com/investigatio...?

Proof that even tiny digital footprints can have massive real-world consequences.

Wall Street billionaire Jeff Yass has donated $100 million to the University of Austin. With this gift, the university has pledged to never charge tuition to its students.

The amount of innovation happening quietly in the background is pretty impressive.

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan won’t join Google, Palantir, or Microsoft in bankrolling Trump’s $300 million ballroom. www.aol.com/news/dimon-j...?

If you think Big Tech abusing your data is scary, wait until you realize how much worse it gets when governments start doing it with far deeper data and no way to opt out.

An AI-powered toy was caught teaching a 5-year-old how to light fires and find knives. Next thing you know, it’ll start turning kids against their own parents. www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/the...

Texas is suing Roblox, calling it “a breeding ground for predators.” About 40% of users are under 13 and constantly exposed to sexual content, exploitation, and grooming.

Some inventions make you wonder if necessity was even invited to the party.

“I was born barefoot, and I will leave this world barefoot. The shroud has no pockets.” - Sulaiman Al Rajhi Born with nothing, he became one of Saudi Arabia’s richest. Unlike most, he chose to lose it at will, giving over $16 billion and becoming one of the world’s greatest philanthropists.

What’s your reason to smile?

A U.S. man cut his $195,000 hospital bill down to $35,000, thanks entirely to Claude AI. The bill was full of duplicate fees and incorrect codes. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...?

Michael Bloomberg has announced a new $100 million pledge to accelerate efforts to cut global emissions.

Just days after Newsom killed an AI child-safety bill, Sam Altman announced plans for ChatGPT erotica set for December 2025. Wasn’t it stuff supposed to cure cancer?

Norway’s wealth fund is planning to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package at this week’s annual shareholder meeting.

ChatGPT will no longer give legal or healthcare advice.

An Indian programmer discovered his Chinese vacuum cleaner was secretly sending 3D maps of his home to overseas servers. When he painstakingly managed to block it, the device went dead in an instant. Everything’s turning into surveillance tech. cybernews.com/security/eng...

"If jobs get wiped out, maybe they weren’t real work." - Sam Altman Hard truth or pure delusion?

According to Polymarket, Mamdani has a 95% chance of becoming NYC mayor by Tuesday.

Bill Gates has changed his view on climate change. He now says the climate crisis “will not lead to humanity’s demise, but it will have serious consequences.” Does this change anything?

China now requires influencers to have college degrees to talk about serious topics. Those who don’t follow will be fined 100,000 yuan (around $14,000). Protecting truth or policing speech?

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough" - Mary McLeod Bethune Mary was known as the “First Lady of the Struggle” for dedicating her life fighting for education and civil rights for Black Americans.

With how fast quantum tech is moving, this might not be as far off as you’d guess.

Apple is donating to Trump's $300M White House Ballroom. Cheaper than bringing jobs to the U.S.?

A 16-year-old student was swarmed by police after an AI system mistook a bag of Doritos for a gun in Baltimore. www.wmar2news.com/news/region/...?

In Myanmar, cyber-slavery scam centers were using Starlink to stay online, forcing victims into labor near the Thai border. They’ve now shut down 2,500 terminals, but they’ve known about this for months and only just decided to act. Honestly, what were they even waiting for?

In just two days on Bluesky, the White House account got blocked by 92,000 users while gaining only 10,000 followers, making it the second most-blocked account second only to JD Vance.

Would you trade privacy for a cheaper premium if it meant being tracked every mile?

"Citizens will be at their best behavior because we are recording and reporting everything that is going on" - Larry Ellison

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced. The good of the community must come before the wealth of the individual.” — Andrew Carnegie. He lived by his words, donating 90% of his wealth before he died.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank has been approved by the U.S. government. It’s the quickest de novo bank approval in 25+ years.

One of the first Black female millionaires, Mary Ellen Pleasant spent her wealth helping people escape slavery and funding Underground Railroad operations She herself was born into slavery and, despite all her wealth, she died in poverty, losing most of it to decades of legal attacks.

In 2014, Facebook manipulated the news feeds of 600,000+ users, showing more positive or negative content without any user consent. When everything came to light, they basically said it was allowed under the terms of service.Running a human experiment is allowed under “terms of service”?

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joiner Microsoft and Anthropic as a part-time advisor. www.gov.uk/government/p...?

Julian Brown, a 22-year-old inventor, has turned plastic waste into fuel. Scientists have tested it and found its diesel burns cleaner than traditional diesel.

Just because it says ‘anonymous’ doesn’t mean it can’t be traced back to you. Unfortunately, that is the reality with most ‘anonymized’ data today.

 In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history. Around 147 million Americans had their Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses exposed. But instead of alerting the public, executives quietly sold stock while the company hid the breach for months.

In 1979, Ross Perot, founder of EDS, personally funded a private commando mission to rescue his employees detained in revolutionary Iran. Later, he ran for U.S. president, dodging the establishment and financing the campaigns himself.

Since the 1980s, Ben & Jerry’s has donated 7.5% of its profits to climate justice, refugee aid, and racial equity, making them one of the earliest pioneers of corporate philanthropy. Long before it was fashionable, they proved giving back could be part of business.

In the 1830s, Cornelius Vanderbilt told New York officials he would pull every ferry off the Hudson if they didn’t hand him a monopoly. Once he had it, he set prices as he pleased. As he put it: "What do I care about the law? Hain’t I got the power?"

Azim Premji, Wipro’s tech magnate, has given over $21 billion through his foundation. As one of the largest living donors, he has helped rebuild schools, clinics, and communities across India and is still running projects that touch millions of lives.

One of America’s bloodiest labor battles, the Homestead Strike left 10 dead and 60+ wounded. Workers were expecting negotiations. But Carnegie’s partner Frick sent hundreds of Pinkertons with rifles and a Gatling gun to retake the steelworks.

In 1915, Henry Ford chartered the “Peace Ship” to Europe with 100 delegates, hoping to personally end World War I. He basically thought governments were useless and he could fix the war himself.

Meet Phineas Fisher, the hacktivist haunting oppressive systems. They’ve exposed millions of hidden documents and helped shine a light on corruption, all while no one knows who they are.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated $1 billion, 28% of his net worth, to fight COVID-19, fund education, and pilot UBI programs. What’s even more surprising is that he put it in a public LLC so everybody could see exactly where the money went.

In 2019, Apple employees were found listening to randomly sampled Siri recordings without users’ knowledge. Shockingly, Apple didn’t end the program; they simply made it optional for users.