Katie Notopoulos
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Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture.
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One of my favorite thing to tell normal people is "Sam Altman also runs a failing business were he scans the eyeballs of people in poorer countries with a device called "the Orb" and puts the data on the blockchain" and watch their heads spin
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Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup wants to hit a billion users. It's less than 2% of the way there.
Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, wants its Orb to scan a billion irises to create a "World ID." Regulators worldwide are sounding the alarm.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-orb-eye-scanning-startup-billion-user-goal-viability-2025-11
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I went out and bought the new Taco Bell mountain dew Baja Blast pie because I love neon food (it was good!) and also I need to test out my Mr Beast thumbnail face
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Taco Bell's new Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie is part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. I tried it.
Taco Bell's bright green Mountain Dew Baja Blast pie looks disgusting. But it's part of a strategy to reach Gen Z. And it's surprisingly good.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-mountain-dew-baja-blast-pie-review-photos-2025-11
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don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going
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I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now
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How 'boomerslop' is taking over Meta AI's video feed
Meta's stand-alone AI app has a video feed called Vibes. It's being taken over by Donald Trump memes and political stuff. I'm calling it "boomerslop."
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibes-app-videos-trump-slop-boomer-2025-11
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One thing about Dick Cheney is that he had zero rizz. No one, not even Republicans, liked him. Now you can do all sorts of evil stuff as a politician, but you have to have memetic charm. Really the last of his kind.
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This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter
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The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/?gift=KnPEUGay_6wcqYyilJ5WULrtiP78Ib2xWNAoPUmW_KI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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NEW! I'm doing a video podcast (vodcast? It's literally not even available as audio lol) about my favorite thing to talk about: ~consumerism~
@emilystewart.bsky.social
and I talked about rEaL eStaTe for the first episode. Check it out!
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Wikipedia's traffic is down, due to Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. I think AI will continue to cut into Wikipedia traffic -- but only to a point. There's something Wikipedia offers that is more than just a quick answer
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AI answers are taking a bite of Wikipedia's traffic. Should we be worried for the site?
Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with its new Grokipedia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-traffic-down-ai-answers-elon-musk-grokipedia-wikimedia-2025-10
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12 days ago
big story that should get more attention from bayliss, who as always is the GOAT:
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Even though I've heard "Golden" 300,000 times (at minimum), I didn't realize that EJAE was the co-writer of the song, not just the vocalist. Great interview, she seems fascinating
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How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Star EJAE Topped the Charts
Kids everywhere know her voice—if not her name. WIRED talks to the former SM trainee about her rise to global superstardom with her hit song “Golden.”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-k-pop-demon-hunters-star-ejae-topped-the-charts/
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"These nice young people don't like phones!" is the nytimes version of boomerbait that's the same as the Fox News "litterboxes in high schools" story. Same story over and over, zero skepticism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
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They’ve Come to Free the ‘iPad Babies’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html
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This is long but truly one of the most fun things I've read online in a long long time
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/
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Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT:
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People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
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Sora doesn't allow nudity, but it's full of niche fetishists who make videos of women as centaurs, giantesses (or miniature), feet vids, pregnancy, belly inflation, etc... Who could have guessed!! Ihttps://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
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OpenAI might have a 'creeper problem' on its hands with Sora
Sora lets you make videos using other people's faces. Great! Except when your face is used in a "fetish" video, like one about feet or pregnancy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
22 days ago
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This story rules
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27 days ago
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
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This is a great article because the “common item from 2007” is a never opened iPhone 1 in sealed packaging — something people definitely have lying around a junk drawer
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Check your junk drawer — this common item from 2007 could soon be worth $50,000: expert
Old gadget, new money.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/lifestyle/check-your-junk-drawer-this-common-item-from-2007-could-soon-be-worth-50000-expert/?utm_campaign=nypost&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwZnRzaANaP7pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmaM3w1ZYUiSh22CyrZmP28V8RPvFxx_-j5b6NwRfuUfa3dVo0GGjdGxWGvj_aem_aYwBe2e8PVyu9ZJCWYgxzw
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The biggest problem with Sora as a social platform isn't the copyright or misinfo. It's that it's full of Jake Paul fans
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Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.
Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-openai-content-moderation-celebrities-teens-boys-girls-2025-10
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I've been having SO MUCH FUN messing around on Sora 2, which is kind of a watershed moment: an AI app that's actually fun to use -- but also brings with it all the horrible things we've worried about for the last few years
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Playing with Sora 2 is pure joy — until you realize how dangerous it could be
Sora 2 is a breakthrough. It makes AI fun — and the key is the ability to see ourselves and friends. But it comes with a terrifying side.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-app-openai-pros-cons-explained-why-2025-10
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
@katienotopoulos.bsky.social
hacked my phone and has threatening to publicize a private video. I am posting it here to show I’m not afraid of blackmail
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RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world
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Marissa Mayer is throwing in the towel on her AI-based photo-sharing app. Now she's focused on an AI personal assistant.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's photo-sharing app never really caught on. So she's reportedly moving on — to a new AI personal assistant.
https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-ai-startup-sunshine-shutting-down-dazzle-2025-9
about 1 month ago
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The best thing I can say about the new Meta AI Vibes feed is that it replaces the old "Discover" feed, which was where boomers accidentally publicly posted their chatbot conversations. Better slop than privacy disaster!
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We get fresh AI slop from Meta's new 'Vibes' feed. Thanks, Zuck!
A Meta feed of random AI video clips is exactly what no one asked for. Let's explore it together.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-vibes-feed-ai-slop-2025-9
about 2 months ago
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The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training
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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon-the-no-2-social-app-on-the-apple-app-store-pays-users-to-record-their-phone-calls-and-sells-data-to-ai-firms/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
the
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mural is complete! tag us if you see us in bushwick and scan the QR code on the mural to start reading about wtf happened to silicon valley and trump, gamechangers, and what this means for your future:
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about 2 months ago
This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda.
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She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.
As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/09/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-boyfriends-dating-romance-intimacy.html
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NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/
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to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event
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Researchers tested AI's sycophancy by putting in a bunch of r/AITA posts and seeing if AI would agree that people were jerks. They found 42% of the time, AI got it wrong. I tested this out myself, nearly every time, AI couldn't catch the verified Asshole
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Am I the jerk? Redditors say yes — but ChatGPT and other bots say no.
ChatGPT and other AI bots tell posters from Reddit's "AITA" board that, actually, they're not the jerks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-chatbots-chatgpt-jerks-sycophant-2025-9
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I wish I could remember where -- a Tiktok perhaps? an X post? -- where someone made a prediction that the Savanah Bananas would be canceled soon, and I wish I could remember and link them to give them credit
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The Official Charity Of The Savannah Bananas Has A Hard Time Explaining How Its Money Is Spent | Defector
Bananas Foster describes itself as “the official non-profit of Banana Ball,” the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the Savannah Bananas. Its mission, per executive director Jolie Chabala, is “ce...
https://defector.com/the-official-charity-of-the-savannah-bananas-has-a-hard-time-explaining-how-its-money-is-spent
about 2 months ago
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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
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Most important news of the day: my investigation into why kids yell "SIX SEVEN"
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Gen Alpha is yelling out '6-7' and "41." It makes no sense — and that's the point
Gen Zers are yelling out numbers like "6-7" and "41." But, why? Do they mean anything? It's all part of a much larger memeworld of "brainrot."
https://www.businessinsider.com/six-seven-forty-one-gen-alpha-slang-meme-brainrot-ai-2025-9
2 months ago
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People have focused so much on the predator problem on Roblox (which is honestly fairly solvable by utilizing parental controls/blocking chat) that they've missed the forest for the trees: it's all junky games laden with in-app purchases, pay-to-win, and dark patterns
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The Brain-Rotting Dystopia of Roblox
What if the world’s most beloved video-game app is turning children into mindless hyperconsumers?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-is-roblox-video-game-app-metaverse-safe-children-ban.html
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I talked to the CEO of Yondr (the magnetic phone pouches used in schools). What surprised me was how much he really eats his own dogfood -- he uses a flip phone himself and bans AI tools for his employees. He HATES social media!
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Yondr makes pouches for phone-free zones, like schools and concerts. Its CEO uses a flip phone.
Yondr makes the zippered pouches for phone-free zones, like schools and concerts. We asked the CEO about social media — and why he uses a flip phone.
https://www.businessinsider.com/yondr-ceo-graham-dugoni-phone-pouch-2025-9
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I have to admit, I would find it truly astounding if it's really true that they were losing talent because people kept wanting to leave to go to in-office jobs instead
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Klarna dials back remote work and says it's losing top talent to companies with stronger in-office culture as IPO nears
As Klarna prepares to IPO next week, it announced a return-to-office policy, partly blaming losing talent to firms that prioritize in-person work.
https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-office-return-draft-policy-employee-slack-rto-2024-10
2 months ago
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meta ai trying to figure it out
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One IP I refuse to know the origins of is “Annie”. Musical first? Movie? Was it a comic strip? Actually from the 1930s or 70s? I simply refuse to ever know, do NOT tell me
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Suddenly, I kept hearing parents talking about the Tin Can phone, a landline for kids. I talked to the co-founder about how it’s blown up in the last month or so (currently backordered until December)
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Tin Can is a 'landline' for kids. It comes as more parents are trying to keep their kids from cellphones.
Tin Can is a kid-friendly WiFi phone that replicates an old-fashioned landline. It's aimed at parents who want to delay giving their kids a cellphone.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tin-can-landline-kids-cellphone-cell-alternative-how-2025-9
2 months ago
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I found the AI meeting transcript for the morning standup for the product team that makes all the school apps for parents
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Thrilled to see that these two have made a lifelong commitment to maximizing shareholder value
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Swifties Fan Army Inc. issues upbeat forecast after Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce proposal
The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce merger creates synergies for a strong Q4 2025 growth outlook. Swifties Fan Army Inc. congratulates the couple.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-brand-merger-shareholder-value-2025-8
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Bullish on Bic and Ticonderoga
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Labubus are on track to make $1billion this year. This is definitely going to last
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Labubus are set to hit $1 billion in sales. They're a bubble waiting to burst.
Labubus could rack up a billion dollars in sales this year. I don't have to tell you they're all the rage. But trends are fickle. Will the bubble pop?
https://www.businessinsider.com/labubu-trend-bubble-burst-cost-why-popmart-2025-8
3 months ago
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3 months ago
the woke elites hate when you find a flash drive on the ground and plug it into your work computer while on company wifi
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GIVE ME THE SHRIMP
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Please let me eat the radioactive shrimp from Walmart
The FDA warns that a shipment of frozen shrimp meant for Walmart tested positive for radioactive poisoning.
https://www.businessinsider.com/radioactive-shrimp-fda-walmart-2025-8
3 months ago
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I saw this headline and was like, wow, rough. Then I realized it was by a 22yo and I smiled
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Opinion | ‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre
For financial freedom by age 30, optimize ruthlessly during your peak physical and cognitive years.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/work-life-balance-will-keep-you-mediocre-25bdf073?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
3 months ago
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@amandahoover.bsky.social
nails "Brain rot summer"
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OpenAI stopped having certain public ChatGPT posts be indexed by Google after people complained. Meta AI? They'll keep doing it!
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Your chats with Meta's AI might end up on Google — just like ChatGPT until it turned them off
Meta lets you share your chats with its AI bot to a public feed. Google can index that feed — and make your searchable and public.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chat-google-search-openai-chatgpt-2025-8
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damn daniel. back at it with the white vans
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I think what's most interesting here is the idea that there are people -- many, potentially -- who are perfectly delighted to watch an AI version of a podcast host pretend to interview an AI version of Richard Branson
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'The Diary of a CEO' star Steven Bartlett is using AI to make new podcasts hosted by a virtual version of himself
The execs behind "Diary of a CEO" podcaster Steven Bartlett's company describe how he's using AI to build franchises.
https://www.businessinsider.com/diary-of-a-ceo-steven-bartlett-ai-cloning-new-podcasts-2025-7
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