Binance loses $6.3 billion in the biggest crypto theft ever. Analysts blame North Korea.
Most of the money left the world's largest exchange in about 20 minutes. Half has been frozen, Binance says it will cover every loss, and the questions about how one breach reached billions are only starting.
Perplexity wants AI to be your coworker, not your tool. The line between assistant and employee just got blurrier.
The search startup's new 'teammates' feature lets AI agents handle daily work tasks autonomously, raising fresh questions about what jobs actually need humans.
The American labor market refuses to break. That's a problem for anyone hoping the Fed blinks.
October's 165,000-job gain—more than double expectations—hands the central bank all the cover it needs to keep tightening into year-end.
Paraguay's President Resigns Over a Bank Collapse He Helped Create. It's a Textbook Case of Regulatory Capture.
Santiago Peña's administration greenlit Ueno Bank's reckless expansion before it froze millions of depositors' savings, triggering the fastest presidential exit in South American history.
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Palo Alto Networks is paying nearly six times last valuation for a startup that barely exists. The AI agent security gold rush has officially begun.
The $500 million bid for Clutch signals that enterprise cybersecurity giants see autonomous AI systems as the next great attack surface—and are willing to overpay dramatically to own the defense layer.
Asian markets suffer worst day in eighteen months. The AI reckoning has gone global.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 crashed below 60,000 for the first time since May while Seoul's Kospi breached 5,000 to the downside, as investors digest the prospect of a newly empowered Democratic Congress scrutinizing data-center expansion and AI spending.
Silicon Valley's Trump bet just came due. The bill is steep.
Tech billionaires who aligned themselves with the president now face a hostile Congress, energized regulators, and a public that voted decisively against their patron.
Pepe is trending again. The frog that refuses to die tells us something uncomfortable about crypto's political moment.
As institutional capital floods into Bitcoin and Ethereum following the Democratic midterm sweep, retail traders are quietly rotating back into the meme coin that launched a thousand imitators.
A federal judge just handed the NCAA another eligibility defeat. Robbie Avila will play his fifth season at Saint Louis.
The Atlantic 10 Player of the Year's successful injunction underscores how powerless the NCAA has become in policing its own transfer and eligibility rules.
Lola Teller Got Married Barefoot in an Ibizan Pine Grove. The Fashion Dynasty's Quiet Rebellion Against Wedding Industrial Complex Excess.
When your parents are Juergen Teller and Venetia Scott, a barefoot ceremony with lace and dancing till dawn reads less as bohemian whimsy and more as a pointed statement about what luxury actually means.
Perplexity wants AI to be your coworker, not your tool. The line between assistant and employee just got blurrier.
The search startup's new 'teammates' feature lets AI agents handle daily work tasks autonomously, raising fresh questions about what jobs actually need humans.
AIPalo Alto Networks is paying nearly six times last valuation for a startup that barely exists. The AI agent security gold rush has officially begun.
The $500 million bid for Clutch signals that enterprise cybersecurity giants see autonomous AI systems as the next great attack surface—and are willing to overpay dramatically to own the defense layer.
AISilicon Valley's Trump bet blew up in its face. Now the industry is scrambling for a new political playbook.
The midterm results have left AI executives who aligned with the former president politically homeless and commercially exposed, forcing a rapid recalculation of how tech engages with Washington.
AIDario Amodei is the most important person in AI you've never heard of. His bet is that doom can be profitable.
As OpenAI stumbles and regulators circle, the Anthropic CEO's peculiar blend of existential dread and commercial ambition is reshaping the industry's center of gravity.
Economy
See all Economy →The American labor market refuses to break. That's a problem for anyone hoping the Fed blinks.
October's 165,000-job gain—more than double expectations—hands the central bank all the cover it needs to keep tightening into year-end.
EconomyAsian markets suffer worst day in eighteen months. The AI reckoning has gone global.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 crashed below 60,000 for the first time since May while Seoul's Kospi breached 5,000 to the downside, as investors digest the prospect of a newly empowered Democratic Congress scrutinizing data-center expansion and AI spending.
EconomyAirbnb is betting its future on an AI concierge. The travel industry should be terrified.
The company's plan to launch an AI agent that plans and books entire trips by mid-2027 threatens to collapse the $200 billion travel-services sector into a single interface.
EconomyThe AI trade just had its reckoning. Wall Street's post-midterm euphoria lasted exactly 48 hours.
A brutal tech selloff erased the Democratic-sweep rally and forced investors to confront an uncomfortable question: what if the AI buildout was always more hype than substance?
Politics
See all Politics →Paraguay's President Resigns Over a Bank Collapse He Helped Create. It's a Textbook Case of Regulatory Capture.
Santiago Peña's administration greenlit Ueno Bank's reckless expansion before it froze millions of depositors' savings, triggering the fastest presidential exit in South American history.
PoliticsSilicon Valley's Trump bet just came due. The bill is steep.
Tech billionaires who aligned themselves with the president now face a hostile Congress, energized regulators, and a public that voted decisively against their patron.
PoliticsBlack Southerners delivered the Democratic wave. The party finally gave them a reason to show up.
Anger over redistricting, federal program cuts, and attacks on Black history drove turnout in a region Democrats had largely written off.
PoliticsAlaska Appears Ready to Hand Democrats Another Senate Seat. The Last Frontier Just Became the Party's Final Frontier.
Mary Peltola's likely defeat of Dan Sullivan would cap the most punishing midterm rebuke of a sitting president since Watergate and leave Republicans with just 43 Senate seats.
Crypto
See all Crypto →Pepe is trending again. The frog that refuses to die tells us something uncomfortable about crypto's political moment.
As institutional capital floods into Bitcoin and Ethereum following the Democratic midterm sweep, retail traders are quietly rotating back into the meme coin that launched a thousand imitators.
CryptoZcash crosses $1,200 as privacy coins command a fear premium. The asset class regulators love to hate is having its moment.
While most altcoins bleed against Bitcoin's post-midterm surge, zero-knowledge privacy tokens are quietly outperforming on a thesis that financial surveillance will only intensify.
CryptoHedera's enterprise dream is fading. The hashgraph network faces an existential question about who it's actually for.
Down more than 60% over the past year while competitors rally, the Google-backed blockchain must decide whether its corporate pedigree is an asset or an anchor.
CryptoVenice Token is the privacy-AI play crypto didn't know it wanted. The timing is no accident.
As regulators tighten the screws on both artificial intelligence and digital assets, a token promising uncensored AI inference is catching a bid from those who want neither Washington nor Silicon Valley watching.
Sports
See all Sports →A federal judge just handed the NCAA another eligibility defeat. Robbie Avila will play his fifth season at Saint Louis.
The Atlantic 10 Player of the Year's successful injunction underscores how powerless the NCAA has become in policing its own transfer and eligibility rules.
SportsMichigan stuns UConn in a top-five clash that announces the new order. The Huskies' aura of invincibility is officially gone.
The Wolverines' 77-66 victory at Crisler Center marks the highest-ranked win in program history and signals that Geno Auriemma's dynasty now faces genuine peer competition.
SportsJapan's Kozo Tashima will challenge Gianni Infantino for FIFA presidency. The real question is whether anyone else will follow.
A second challenger has emerged for world football's top job, but unseating the incumbent will require far more than symbolic opposition.
SportsAlan Jones, the man who made Williams a dynasty, is dead at 80. Formula One has lost its last link to the sport's cowboy era.
The Australian who delivered Frank Williams his first world championship and defined an age of fearless, unfiltered racing has died following a brief illness.
Lifestyle
See all Lifestyle →Lola Teller Got Married Barefoot in an Ibizan Pine Grove. The Fashion Dynasty's Quiet Rebellion Against Wedding Industrial Complex Excess.
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LifestyleTikTok has diagnosed itself with 'ferritin face.' The platform's latest wellness fixation reveals something darker than iron deficiency.
After cortisol face and Ozempic face, the beauty internet has found a new medical condition to pathologize perfectly normal features — and a new supplement to sell.
LifestylePamela Abdy resurfaces after Warner Bros. ouster. Her first public words are a quiet indictment of Hollywood's woman problem.
The former co-film chief's appearance at Women in Film Honors—and her pointed remarks about the industry's shrinking female leadership—arrives as the Paramount-Skydance merger continues to reshape studio power structures.
LifestyleSalon.com is dead after 31 years. The early internet's promise of smart, accessible cultural commentary dies with it.
The pioneering website that proved serious writing could thrive online finally succumbed to the ad-revenue collapse and platform shift that claimed so many of its peers.