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I am sure you have already heard about the AI Bubble we are in.  The self-dealing between tech companies with nVidia at the center of it all.  It’s clear that it is just a matter of time till it pops. Enough other people that are smarter about finance than me have already gone deep on just how much this is …

The tech billionaires are still doomsday prepping. And as the BBC reports, it seems that AI is making some of them more paranoid than ever that society as we know it might soon crumble. For years now, reports of the wealthiest bracing for the end of the world have dominated headlines. In 2023, Wired reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg …

Less than 10 years after dropping out of New York University and then starting what would become the prediction market Polymarket in the bathroom of his Lower East Side apartment, Shayne Coplan has been crowned the youngest ever self-made billionaire by capitalizing on Gen Z’s readiness to bet on anything. On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental …

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gestures as he speaks at the main panel of Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin, Italy October 3, 2025. Remo Casilli | Reuters TURIN, Italy — Artificial intelligence is currently in an “industrial bubble” but the technology is “real” and will bring big benefits to society, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos said on Friday. The term bubble …

Kara Kennedy’s major investigation into the Free Birth Society shed light onto an organization that some former members are calling a “death cult.” I spoke with Kara about the group, which encourages women to give birth entirely without medical assistance—which some free birthers say includes sonograms, blood tests, and pregnancy tests. She shared storie… Source link

Image credits: Getty Images One of the most common forms of cancer diagnosed in the United States, colorectal cancer is estimated to be diagnosed in 154,270 people, with 52,900 expected to die due to it, according to the National Cancer Institute. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, over a quarter of Americans are not up to date on …

(SmileStudioAP) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on people and society. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,023 adults from June 9 to 15, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of …

Mount Tabor must have a better publicist, because Rocky Butte is really Portland’s more important and influential extinct volcano. The Rocky Butte Preservation Society is doing its best to promote its mountain’s reputation with a slew of informative newsletters, history walks and trash cleanups. The society will host what its organizers say is the the first concert inside Rocky Butte’s …

Move over, Food Babe. There’s a new food influencer in town and she is no mere “babe.” This one hangs out on Mount Olympus. Much like a superhero, she has an origin story. At age 19, the woman who would later adopt the moniker of Glucose Goddess broke her back while jumping off a waterfall. In the wake of the …

People keep throwing dildos onto the court at WNBA games, which is an incredibly wack trend even before you hear who is taking credit for it: Crypto bros. On Wednesday, a powerful loser and crypto enthusiast who calls himself Lt. Daldo Raine—you may have just instinctively reached for a blunt object—spoke to ESPN’s Katie Barnes and claimed that he and …