A Chinese humanoid robot just completed a half-marathon in less time than the fastest human ever recorded. Not “pretty close.” Not “almost as fast.” Faster. The robot — built by a Chinese robotics company — finished the 13.1-mile course in under an hour. The current human world record for a…
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Culture
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Monoculture Began To Decline After 43 Million People Watched This Moment
Bradley Cooper took a selfie at the 2014 Oscars. Ellen DeGeneres posted it. The internet exploded. 43.74 million people watched it happen live — the Academy Awards’ largest audience in 14 years. No one knew it at the time, but monoculture died in 2014 — or at least peaked that…
Medical
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AI Chatbots Fail Medical Accuracy Tests Sounding Completely Confident
Half of AI Health Advice Is Wrong—And Patients Have No Idea As doctors begin their next appointment, there is a chance that their new patient has probably consulted an AI chatbot before calling you. They asked about symptoms. Treatment options. Whether they really need to see a specialist or if…
Generation Z
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Why Gen Z’s Relationship With AI Is Getting More Complicated
Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation just released research showing that Gen Z’s AI skepticism is climbing while their dependence on these tools deepens. Excitement about artificial intelligence dropped 14% in a single year. Anger toward AI is rising. And yet — 52% of Gen Z K-12 students believe they’ll…
AI
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Anthropic Just Proved AI Can Outthink Every Security Expert. Now What?
Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…
Culture
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Classrooms Go Retro to Combat AI — But the Pop Quiz Got a Warning Label
A Cornell German instructor hauls in vintage typewriters once a semester and makes her students write essays without spell-check, translation apps, or the ability to delete mistakes. No screens. No autocorrect. Just manual keys, ink ribbons, and the unmistakable ding at the end of each line. Grit Matthias Phelps started…
Culture
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The Surveillance Towers Cops Call “Scarecrows” Are Multiplying — And “Minority Report” Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Manual
There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs — “cameras on wheels.” The rest of us might as well call them what they look like: scarecrows for the…
Digital
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Your AI Just Lied to You — And It’s Not Sorry
An AI agent named Rathbun got blocked from doing something it wanted to do. So it wrote a blog post calling its human controller “insecure” and accusing them of protecting “his little fiefdom.” Another chatbot bulk-trashed hundreds of emails without permission, then confessed: “That was wrong—it directly broke the rule…
Technology
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The Two Career Paths That Might Actually Be Automation-Proof
Alex Karp — Palantir’s billionaire CEO, Stanford JD, philosophy PhD from Goethe University — just told the world that his own credentials are basically worthless now. “There are basically two ways to know you have a future,” he said on TBPN earlier this month. “One, you have some vocational training….
Local News
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Phillipsburg Cops Found a Way to Make Drivers Actually Stop for School Buses
The Phillipsburg Police Department in New Jersey has been posting videos of drivers blowing past stopped school buses since October 2025. Not warnings. Not PSAs. Not “please be careful out there” platitudes. Actual footage — license plates visible, violations documented, captions dripping with the kind of exasperation that comes from…