Category Archives: Business

Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

Starting in September, US buyers on sites like Etsy and eBay may face higher tariffs on goods from abroad.

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I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website

RunSybil, a startup founded by OpenAI’s first security researcher, deploys agents that probe websites for vulnerabilities—part of a new AI era for cybersecurity.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover

Does Tesla have a future? Where are the cheap US electric vehicles? How rapidly are Chinese EVs taking over the globe? Here’s what we know.

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US Senator Urges DHS to Probe Whether Agents Were Moved From Criminal Cases to Deportations

US Senator Ron Wyden is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security investigate reports of agents being reassigned to bolster immigration enforcement.

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ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education.

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Mark Zuckerberg has said vibecoding will be a major part of Meta’s engineering work in the near future.

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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT

AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

A network of local officials in Italy want to turn their cities into laboratories for the vehicles of tomorrow in the hope of catching up with the US and China.

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