The tide has seemingly turned on one of the biggest Hollywood deals in recent memory. While Netflix had been positioned as the most likely company to take over Warner Bros., the persistence of Paramount has apparently paid off. On the heels of Paramount submitting a higher bid—one that the Warner Bros. Discovery board deemed a...
Anthropic is holding the line. At least for now. The Pentagon approached Anthropic this week with a demand that it remove guardrails in its AI model Claude to prohibit mass domestic surveillance and fully automated weapons. But Anthropic is refusing to do that, according to a new statement from CEO Dario Amodei, who writes, “we...
It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t stopped researchers from trying. One longstanding theory suggests that glacial melt could actually help slow climate change by feeding algae, but a new study just dumped cold water on the idea. The findings, published in the journal Nature...
The parent company of brands like Jeep, Ram, and Alfa Romeo already reported it would spend billions to reboot its electric vehicle strategy amid dismal sales and a new regulatory environment. Now, however, it’s reporting just how much that transition weighed down the company last year. Stellantis reported on Thursday a net loss of $26.3...
Apple TV has proven itself as the streamer to beat for sci-fi series, producing the likes of To many, Severance, Silo, Sugar, Dark Matter, Invasion, Foundation, Monarch: Legacy of Monstersand For All Mankind. And now it’s breaking containment by launching spin-offs of some of those shows, the first of which, the For All Mankind expansion...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully delivered two national security satellites to orbit earlier this month but suffered an anomaly that caused one of the boosters to emit an unusual plume of debris. Now, the U.S. Space Force has paused all military launches aboard the rocket until the issue is resolved. The...
If you’re only just crawling out of the mountain of snow piled onto the U.S. eastern seaboard, you may be wondering where the month of February went. If this is your first time seeing the sun in weeks, we have the best gadgets from the last 28 days for you to peruse so you can...
President Donald Trump unleashed an all-caps screed against Anthropic on Friday, threatening criminal consequences for the AI company if it didn’t comply with his demands. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed up with his own tweet making clear that Anthropic will be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a designation that means any contractor with the U.S....
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have actively courted people who have insider information to place bets on their platforms, claiming that it serves as a “signal” in the noise. Turns out the companies from which that inside information is extracted are less thrilled with the idea. According to Wired, OpenAI has fired an employee...
Whenever a new sci-fi work drops—especially in animation—it’s almost guaranteed to get stacked against the canon. Whether that’s mapping it onto Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runneror whatever other giants loom overhead, the new is reduced to a collage of influences by fans in the know rather than letting it wholly stand on its...
