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👨‍💻 SoftBank CEO Calls AI Bubble Talk "Absurd" By 2040, AI could account for around 20% of global GDP, and annual spending on the infrastructure needed to support it could reach $5 trillion , according to Masayoshi Son. On that scale, he says, calling AI a bubble makes no sense. ✏️ Son has long been one of the tech industry's most outspoken AI optimists . SoftBank is investing heavily in OpenAI —…

🚀 Five Sci-fi Games Of 2026 Worth Checking Out Our roundup includes underwater survival, a lunar base run by hostile AI, an anime RPG with factory-building, and one atmospheric indie metroidvania. Some of these games are still in early access. 1️⃣ Subnautica 2 , survival in the ocean of an alien planet. One of the biggest sci-fi hits of the first half of 2026. Players once again find themselves i…

🚀 Reflect Orbital's "Sunlight on Demand"—Even at Night Reflect Orbital plans to launch a satellite with an 18×18-meter thin-film mirror by the end of the year. From a 625 km orbit, the craft is designed to reflect sunlight onto a 5-6 km patch of Earth. Reflect Orbital wants to extend the operating hours of solar farms and light up construction sites, fields, disaster areas, and search-and-rescue…

🔥 Someone Else's Fries Really Do Taste Better Valentin Skryabin, a researcher at the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology, conducted an experiment. A total of 120 participants tasted French fries four times: from their own portion, "gifted," snuck from the plate of a friendly person, and from the plate of a "stern observer." And even though the fries were identical every time, the…

👨 AI Clones Are Stealing Creators' Faces, Followers, and Money One day, Josephine , a 21-year-old TikTok creator from Sierra Leone, saw her own dance in someone else's video. Almost everything was identical: the movements, transitions, and camera angles. But it wasn't her dancing—it was an AI-generated model. The copy received far more views than Josephine's original video, which she had posted n…

👨 In China, Game Accounts and Skins Can Now Be Inherited Chinese courts have started recognizing digital assets as legitimate property. The logic is simple: if an asset has a price and can be sold, it's no different from any other property. Inheritable assets include game accounts, in-game items, Bitcoin, domain names, and the rights to run monetized social media accounts. Private messages, howev…

🤖 iPhone Can Now Run a Model on Par with Qwen3.6 27B PrismML has released Bonsai 27B , built on top of the open-source Qwen3.6 27B . It's the first model of this size to run on a smartphone . The standard Qwen3.6 27B weighs around 54 GB —impossible to run on a phone. 💻 The developers found a way to compress the model to 3.9 GB without significant quality loss. Instead of standard weight rounding,…

🚀 Living Kidney and Liver Tissue Printed Aboard the ISS Scientists already use 3D bioprinters to create cartilage, skin, and small sections of blood vessels for research. But printing more complex organs on Earth is much harder because of gravity . Organs like the liver and kidneys contain many different cell types, blood vessels, and tiny tubules packed closely together. Every component has to e…

📱 EU Regulators Want Instagram and Facebook to Get Rid of Infinite Scrolling The European Commission believes the apps' design may violate the EU's Digital Services Act . Infinite scrolling, autoplay videos, and nonstop notifications make it harder for users to stop using the apps . The Commission is proposing that these features be turned off by default , that mandatory break reminders be introd…

✈️ Roost: The App Where Your Texts Fly at Pigeon Speed On Roost , birds carry your messages. Each one travels across a real map at the speed of the "messenger" you pick—delivery takes hours, sometimes days. A falcon beats a hummingbird, and if you want conversation at its most meditative, you can send your letter by snail or turtle. The farther away your friend is, the longer the trip, and you ca…

🔍 Scientists Explain How Deep Sleep Affects Metabolism, Muscles, and Brain Function Researchers from California have identified the brain circuit linking deep sleep to growth hormone release—and explained why poor sleep interferes not only with muscle recovery, but also with metabolism and brain function. It has long been established that growth hormone is released during sleep. That's why athlet…

❗️ Terrorist Groups Have Created Dedicated "AI Units" A research program at the University of Cambridge studying the use of AI in political contexts has found that militants from two factions of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorist organizations are systematically using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek. According to former members of the groups, these AI systems are used not only fo…