AI coding tools are shipping faster, worse software
The ‘ship it fast’ myth dominating AI coding culture A recognisable anti-pattern has spread across engineering teams adopting AI coding tools: generate barely-passable code, open a massive pull request, skip thorough review, merge. Call it “slop…
AI & Machine Learning
Google Preferred Sources: Who Really Benefits in AI Search
The Feature Explained: What ‘Preferred Sources’ Actually Does Google’s Preferred Sources feature has existed for standard…
Startups & Business
SpaceX IPO Filing: Why the $28T Market Claim Falls Short
The Numbers That Demand a Double-Take SpaceX’s S-1 filing opens with a number designed to stop…
Consumer Tech
Memorial Day Tech Deals 2026: Real vs. Fake Discounts
Not All Sales Are Created Equal: Why Memorial Day Still Matters Retail has a trust problem.…
Consumer Tech
Cosmic Voids Are Now Astronomy’s Most Valuable Tool
The Universe Is Mostly Nothing — And That’s the Point The old saying goes that nature…
Startups & Business
ClickUp Cut 22% of Staff and Called It an AI Upgrade
The Announcement: What Evans Said vs. What Actually Happened On a Thursday in mid-2025, ClickUp CEO…
AI & Machine Learning
KanBots Puts AI Agents Inside Your Kanban Board
What KanBots Actually Does — And Why It’s Different From Every Other Agent Tool Drag a…
Crypto & Fintech
VanEck’s BNB ETF Is Live — But Binance’s Past Complicates It
What Actually Launched — The Basics Without the Hype VanEck’s BNB ETF, trading under the ticker…
Startups & Business
Temu’s €200M EU Fine: What It Means for Online Shoppers
What Actually Happened — and What the Headline Misses The European Commission fined Temu €200 million…
AI & Machine Learning
Cognition’s $25B Valuation Tests AI Coding’s Real Limits
The Numbers Are Staggering — Even by AI Standards Cognition just raised more than $1 billion…
AI & Machine Learning
AI News Overload Is Now a Tech Story in Its Own Right
The Acknowledgment No One Is Talking About MIT Technology Review’s own Download newsletter recently did something…
Consumer Tech
Accidental Computer Access Built the Generation Behind the Web
The Accidental On-Ramp: When Parents Didn’t Know They Were Raising Technologists In 1992, an eight-year-old in…
AI & Machine Learning
AI Honesty Is Now a Feature You Have to Sell
The Diogenes Problem: Why AI Honesty Needs a Marketing Campaign Anthropic opened its Claude Opus 4.8…