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China’s ByteDance could be forced to sell TikTok U.S., but its quiet lead in AI will help it survive
Tiktok’s logo was all over the October Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, perhaps the region’s most important diplomatic…
Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore, and they’re debating it in the comments of TikTok home tours
The comment sections of TikTok’s “middle-class house tours” feature thousands of Americans arguing about what qualifies as middle class in…
A new X update is pulling back the curtain on MAGA influencers, revealing many are operating from abroad
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X revealed a potentially awkward truth about some of the loudest right-wing voices on…
Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial
A verified fashion brand with a black-and-white bunny logo called @forbiddenclothes, with a little under half a million followers, is…
This 26-year-old was laid off from his ‘dream job’ at PwC building AI agents. He’s worried the tech he built has led to more job cuts
Titans of industry like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Intel have all been slashing staff, and employees are hand-wringing about being next…
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman just dropped a four-word dating tip — and the internet is going crazy over it
Somewhere in Stanford, California, an undergrad is telling his roommates that he landed a Friday night date because he tried…
Both clinical wisdom and empirical research agree that the more we fixate on happiness, the more elusive it becomes. In…
For Gen Z, quiet luxury is dead—they’re packing lunch at home while shelling out on conspicuous consumption
When economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” in 1899, he was describing a new kind of social display: one…
This holiday season, a new obsession is sweeping through American homes: the “Ralph Lauren Christmas.” But it’s not just luxury…
Just like humans, AI can get ‘brain rot’ from low-quality text and the effects appear to linger, pre-print study says
Studies suggest humans experience shorter attention spans, distorted memories, and shifts in self-esteem due to “brain rot,” or a dependence…












