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A close-up 85mm portrait of a tech visionary speaking at a podium in a dimly lit, high-end venture capital office. Dramatic rim lighting, 4K HDR fashion photography.
A close-up 85mm portrait of a tech visionary speaking at a podium in a dimly lit, high-end venture capital office. Dramatic rim lighting, 4K HDR fashion photography.

Articles #

A close-up 85mm portrait of a tech visionary speaking at a podium in a dimly lit, high-end venture capital office. Dramatic rim lighting, 4K HDR fashion photography.

VIBE CODING CREATOR CALLS HIS OWN TREND GROSS #

Andrej Karpathy stood before a crowd of velvet-vested investors at Sequoia Capital on Wednesday. He held the microphone with the practiced ease of a man who once led Tesla's AI dreams. Then he called the future "gross." The man who coined the term "vibe coding" in February 2025 has turned on his own creation. He told the room that AI-written code is "bloaty" and "brittle." For those who thought prompting was the new path to easy wealth, the architect of…

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HOLLYWOOD STARS SECURE THE BIOLOGICAL VELVET ROPE #

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued a decree on Saturday that felt like a biological fortress. They announced that only performances "demonstrably performed by humans" will ever touch a gold statue. This comes as the SAG-AFTRA union, led by Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, finalized a deal to make AI…

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IRANIAN PROXIES BRING THE GULF WAR TO LONDON #

Essa Suleiman walked onto a north London street on Wednesday carrying a blade and a heavy history. The 45-year-old Somali-born man is now charged with attempted murder after two Jewish men were left bleeding on the pavement. A shadowy group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI) immediately claimed the credit.…

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CARTEL BLOOD THREATENS THE WORLD CUP SPECTACLE #

11 people lay dead in the dust of a Nayarit highway on Friday after a tourist bus careened into the void. The wreckage sat near the town of Amatlan de…

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AMAZON SELLS THE METABOLIC DIVIDE BY SUBSCRIPTION #

One Medical centers are now offering a "GLP-1 Management Program" for those who prefer their weight loss with a corporate seal of approval. The program treats obesity as a chronic…

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In Brief #

GOLD LAUNDRY AT THE MINT

The U.S. Mint is buying gold from Colombian drug cartel mines, according to a New York Times investigation. Federico Rios photographed the rectangular bars of gold held in the palms of illegal miners.

MALI FALLS TO SHARIA CHECKPOINTS

Al Qaeda-linked insurgents have seized a northern town and set up checkpoints around the capital of Bamako. The militants are calling on Malians to rise up and transition to Sharia law.

GITHUB BUG EXPOSES GLOBAL TECH

A high-severity bug in the GitHub Enterprise Server was unearths by security researchers at Wiz using AI tools. 88% of instances remained vulnerable at the time of the disclosure.