Articles by Matt Novak
The Federal Trade Commission announced this week that the agency is seeking public comment about a new policy document on surveillance pricing, warning companies that they could be breaking the law iοΏ½...
On Thursday, Google released a new AI feature that allowed anyone to create fake images in Google Earth. Naturally, people used the AI to put a fake nuclear plant in Iran and show a plane crashing inοΏ½...
Roughly 184,000 cans of Amyβs Kitchen soup have been recalled over a manufacturing problem with the pull tabs that seal the cans.
The voluntary recall only impacts Amyβs Organic Lentil Soup of th...
The percentage of American adults who are currently taking a GLP-1 drug for weight loss is 11%, according to a new survey from Gallup. Thatβs up from 8% in 2025 and 3% in 2024, according to the poll...
Bryan Johnson, the life extension guru who chronicles his efforts to reduce his βbiological age,β says he has Autoimmune Gastritis (AIG), an incurable disease that he only discovered he had in May...
Theyβre falling like dominoes now. New Jersey became the latest state to pass a bipartisan law banning surveillance pricing in grocery stores on Tuesday, following the lead of Maryland and Connectic...
Americaβs largest power grid is under enormous strain from AI data centers. And a new report details how wholesale electricity prices have jumped nearly 76% in an area where tens of millions of Amer...
Back in the 20th century, every city in America distributed a very large book to everyoneβs home with a near-complete list of phone numbers and addresses for the people who lived there.
It was call...
This month, Maryland became the first state in the country to pass a bill placing restrictions on surveillance pricing, the practice of setting a customized price for a consumer based on data collectοΏ½...
After OpenAIβs ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, it wasnβt long before mainstream America started hearing about the warnings. Executives at the top AI companies told us that they were bui...
