Meet the new tech laws of 2026
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
π Key Facts β Aave's governance vote on brand ownership was fast-tracked, sparking backlash. β Critics argue the decision exposed w...
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images The "godfather of AI" says AI could trigger a new wave of job losses in 2026. "We're going to see AI get even ...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is the face of the company supplying chips to many of the companies in the AI arms race. Woohae Cho/Getty Images If you've heard about AI, you're probably familiar ...
π Key Facts β Battlefield 6 is addressing AI accusations related to a double-barreled gun design. β The controversy follows a promise t...
π Key Facts β Northern Data is majority-owned by Tether. β Northern Data sold its Bitcoin mining arm. β The buy...
π Key Facts β Disney Imagineering debuted a next-generation robotic character named Olaf. β The robotic Olaf marks a new era of Disney ...
π Key Facts β The Windchill cosmetic pack in Battlefield 6 costs 900 Battlefield Coins and includes the Winter Warning sticker with a double-barreled M4A1. ...
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis/Getty Images Pavel Durov, the founder and owner of Telegram, is worth $17 billion. The messaging platform has 1 billion users and...
Gaming laptops are always a balance between price, performance, and portability. The Asus ROG Strix G16 manages to find a good balance between all three. Though a few more design updates would be welc...
The men behind Cybertruck.cz pose with a Tesla Cybertruck in a medieval square in Prague. Cybertruck.cz Two years after it launched, the Cybertruck has yet to appear on European roads. Attempts to bri...
π Key Facts β Videos featuring AI children playing with vibrators are made with Sora 2. β Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy-themed playsets app...
Apple Fitness+ is a subscription-based service available to Apple users. Apple Apple teased "big" Apple Fitness+ updates planned for 2026 on Instagram. The service offers instructor-led classe...
BI There's nothing like a perfect sentence to take the reader by the scruff of their neck and shake them awake. On Business Insider's Discourse team this year, we wrote thousands of sentences to illum...
π Key Facts β Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for Intersect Power. β Intersect Power is a data center and clea...
Although recovery of assets affected in a $3.9 million exploit of the Flow blockchain isn't guaranteed, many users responded positively to a change in the remediation plan....
Dragonflyβs Haseeb Qureshi predicts Big Tech and Fortune 100 companies will start building in crypto in 2026, but that corporate L1s will fail to challenge Ethereum and Solana....
A Grok investor said he's "deeply concerned" about the "speculative" data center market. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A Groq investor said he's "deeply concer...
Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Netflix have very different approaches to remote work. John Lamparski/Getty Images; Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Beata Zawrzel/Nu...
Christmas came early for some shoppers at an H-E-B supermarket in Texas. The store offered everyone in line free groceries after a computer glitch shut down the registers....