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A U.S. man cut his $195,000 hospital bill down to $35,000, thanks entirely to Claude AI.

The bill was full of duplicate fees and incorrect codes.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Michael Bloomberg has announced a new $100 million pledge to accelerate efforts to cut global emissions.
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just days after Newsom killed an AI child-safety bill, Sam Altman announced plans for ChatGPT erotica set for December 2025.

Wasn’t it stuff supposed to cure cancer?
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Norway’s wealth fund is planning to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package at this week’s annual shareholder meeting.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ChatGPT will no longer give legal or healthcare advice.
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An Indian programmer discovered his Chinese vacuum cleaner was secretly sending 3D maps of his home to overseas servers.

When he painstakingly managed to block it, the device went dead in an instant.

Everything’s turning into surveillance tech.

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November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"If jobs get wiped out, maybe they weren’t real work." - Sam Altman

Hard truth or pure delusion?
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
According to Polymarket, Mamdani has a 95% chance of becoming NYC mayor by Tuesday.
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bill Gates has changed his view on climate change.

He now says the climate crisis “will not lead to humanity’s demise, but it will have serious consequences.”

Does this change anything?
November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
China now requires influencers to have college degrees to talk about serious topics.

Those who don’t follow will be fined 100,000 yuan (around $14,000).

Protecting truth or policing speech?
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough" - Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary was known as the “First Lady of the Struggle” for dedicating her life fighting for education and civil rights for Black Americans.
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Apple is donating to Trump's $300M White House Ballroom.

Cheaper than bringing jobs to the U.S.?
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A 16-year-old student was swarmed by police after an AI system mistook a bag of Doritos for a gun in Baltimore.

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October 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In Myanmar, cyber-slavery scam centers were using Starlink to stay online, forcing victims into labor near the Thai border.

They’ve now shut down 2,500 terminals, but they’ve known about this for months and only just decided to act.

Honestly, what were they even waiting for?
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In just two days on Bluesky, the White House account got blocked by 92,000 users while gaining only 10,000 followers, making it the second most-blocked account second only to JD Vance.
October 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Citizens will be at their best behavior because we are recording and reporting everything that is going on" - Larry Ellison
October 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced. The good of the community must come before the wealth of the individual.” — Andrew Carnegie.

He lived by his words, donating 90% of his wealth before he died.
October 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank has been approved by the U.S. government.

It’s the quickest de novo bank approval in 25+ years.
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One of the first Black female millionaires, Mary Ellen Pleasant spent her wealth helping people escape slavery and funding Underground Railroad operations

She herself was born into slavery and, despite all her wealth, she died in poverty, losing most of it to decades of legal attacks.
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In 2014, Facebook manipulated the news feeds of 600,000+ users, showing more positive or negative content without any user consent.

When everything came to light, they basically said it was allowed under the terms of service.Running a human experiment is allowed under “terms of service”?
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joiner Microsoft and Anthropic as a part-time advisor.

www.gov.uk/government/p...?
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Julian Brown, a 22-year-old inventor, has turned plastic waste into fuel.

Scientists have tested it and found its diesel burns cleaner than traditional diesel.
October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
 In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history. Around 147 million Americans had their Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses exposed.

But instead of alerting the public, executives quietly sold stock while the company hid the breach for months.
October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In 1979, Ross Perot, founder of EDS, personally funded a private commando mission to rescue his employees detained in revolutionary Iran.

Later, he ran for U.S. president, dodging the establishment and financing the campaigns himself.
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Since the 1980s, Ben & Jerry’s has donated 7.5% of its profits to climate justice, refugee aid, and racial equity, making them one of the earliest pioneers of corporate philanthropy.

Long before it was fashionable, they proved giving back could be part of business.
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM