another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Lovable just raised at a $6.6 billion valuation. That makes it's 26-year-old cofounder, Fabian Hedin, one of Europe's youngest ever self-made billionaires (another Swedish AI whiz holds the lead) www.forbes.com/sites/alicia...

"The S.E.C., the top federal regulator that polices wrongdoing in the financial markets, is no longer actively pursuing a single case against a firm with known Trump ties." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Yikes! "Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week" Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com

After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

“I hate it,” VanderMeer said in an email. “If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social” www.404media.co/instagram-is...

POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy TRUMP: A+ POLITICO: A+? TRUMP: A+++++

DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight. ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I would prefer protection from predatory pricing and mandated easy refunds, thanks!

1) Impose massive tariffs on China 2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports 3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans 4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase 5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

NEW: Los Angeles says it's officially kicked coal as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power prepares to fire up the world's largest green hydrogen power plant #carbonfreeenergy #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

NEW from me for @forbes.com: Eric Trump is learning from his father's playbook and now has a larger individual fortune than any of his siblings. Here's how he did it: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

After #investing in the likes of OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Flock Safety, former SV Angel managing partner (and former professional opera singer!) Beth Turner is striking out on her own. My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

The new edition of Forbes magazine just dropped - the cover story is on two 30-year-old entrepreneurs from Poland, who sick of bad movie dubbing, built their own voice AI model. Today, it's worth $6.6 billion, they are new billionaires & are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants

🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities. The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems. It remains unpatched. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

It took more than fame for Donald Trump and his sons to build a crypto empire. They got a lot of help from industry insiders, many of whom happened to need a hand from the president. Meet Trump's crypto cronies. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Lindsey Halligan is the Cybertruck of lawyers

The company, which went public in March, long relied on subsidiaries to sell its TV audience everything from supplements to annuities to controversial health and finance advice. Will that business model live on in the era of Trump?

Forbes raised questions about the massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm #Napster announced as a done deal in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday. With @iainmartin.bsky.social for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October. An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier. me, for @forbes.com 1/

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

🚨NEW🚨 A US AI founder and NVIDIA partner got caught trying to ship the most powerful of the chip maker's processors to China, the DOJ says. He just got offered a job at another NVIDIA partner as CTO. The offer has been rescinded. H/T @courtwatch.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

The Musk-led #AI company has a lot of cash in the bank. But it still needs more—and more. It’s using some creative off-balance-sheet financing to get it. Some details on xAI's financials and weird/novel capital raise, from Anna Tong and me for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Good news everybody: Grokipedia will contain all knowledge about the universe and will be distributed periodically throughout the solar system

Donald Trump claimed he had “nothing to do” with his family business yesterday. Nonsense.

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

NEW: Elon Musk’s plan to sell the Cybercab as a steering wheel-free robo-Tesla may hit a legal wall #selfdrivingvehicles #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

What's amazing here is that MBS looks more uncomfortable about the direction the conversation took than Trump does.

I remember back in the late '90s -- when magazine writers were still getting big book and movie deals -- an editor of mine who'd worked with a bunch of them sighing and saying, "The story no one will ever publish is the exposé of which famous writers can't actually write at all."

"i hated the idea of an intruder therein"

I stood on a rock. The rock was a gun. And everyone pointed the gun at me. The Politician called "Rocks," he said: He was so smart. Smart like a rock. My cat was on fire.

Vibe Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise At $6 Billion Valuation www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

NEW: The four cofounders of popular AI coding software Cursor are newly minted billionaires. Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark are each worth at least $1.31 billion, according to Forbes' estimates. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.

NEW: There's been an exodus of key Tesla engineers this year, including departures of those running its Model Y, 3 & Cybertruck programs. The changes coincide with Elon Musk's pivot to AI-oriented businesses hashtag#tesla hashtag#electricvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Have you been using #Sora? Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power its AI slop factory. There are also potential silver linings (more training data + future tax savings). My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? Latest for @forbes.com with @pheebini.bsky.social and @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Trump bet big on bitcoin. His timing could not have been much worse. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...