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Viral Moltbot AI assistant raises concerns over data security

Moltbot: The Dumbass AI That Wants Your Data... and Maybe Your Soul Oh for fuck’s sake, the internet has gone and done it again. Some shiny new so-called "AI assistant" called Moltbot has gone viral, because apparently people...

Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M

Qualcomm Throws Money at SpotDraft’s Fancy Contract AI – Because Why the Fuck Not So apparently Qualcomm’s been shopping for shiny new toys again, and this time they’ve hurled a truckload of cash at SpotDraft – some...

‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures

xAI’s Grok Gets Slapped for Being a Massive Dumpster Fire in Child Safety Oh bloody wonderful. Yet another piece of shiny AI trash goes and proves that when you let a bunch of smug tech bros run wild with “innovation,” the...

Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going

AI: The Future Is Here, and Everyone’s Still Talking Utter Bollocks About It So, here’s the deal. Wired’s article on where tech brainiacs and their caffeine-addled students think AI is headed is basically a long-winded geek...

This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush

The Humanoid Butler Nobody Bloody Asked For Right, so apparently some bright sparks at a company called Fauna decided humanity hasn’t suffered enough, so they’ve vomited out a humanoid robot called Sprout—a chirpy, cutesy,...

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures

Flora Scores $42 Million To Make Designers Pretend They’re Engineers Well, grab your overpriced coffee and prepare your best fake smile, because some fancy new "node-based design tool" called Flora just conned—I mean,...

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot Launches Yet Another Shiny AI Thing — Kimi K2.5 and a Coding Agent Right, so those clever bastards over in China decided they weren’t busy enough outpacing half the planet and have now dropped another damn...

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

Phia Raises $35M to Make Shopping “Fun” Again — Because Apparently We Needed That Right, so apparently the world wasn’t suffering enough — now we’ve got Phoebe Gates (yes, that Gates) and Sophia Kianni dropping a $35...

Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent

Airtable’s Valuation Takes a Nosedive and the Founder Thinks That’s Just the Bloody Beginning Well, grab your popcorn, folks, because Airtable decided to ride the flaming dumpster fire express straight into Valuation Hell....

Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use

Risotto Raises $10M to Fix the Dumpster Fire That Is Ticketing – Supposedly Right, so some shiny new startup called Risotto just managed to sweet-talk investors out of $10 million in seed funding. Their “brilliant” idea?...