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Participants during a Hackathon session at a developer event organized by OpenAI in Bengaluru, India, in January 2026
An AI product exec says workers are being judged like machines.
  • An AI product leader says the bar at work is creeping closer to machine-level consistency.
  • Svetlana Makarova of IKS Health calls the devaluation of human traits the "humanity discount."
  • Decades of standardized, scripted jobs have made many roles easier to automate with AI, she said.

If it feels like the bar at work


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Earthset, captured Apr. 6, 2026, by Christina Koch.

The staggering visuals from the Artemis II mission just keep coming.

On Sunday, Commander Reid Wiseman shared an extraordinary video he shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max from inside NASA's Orion spacecraft, and it's a stunner.

"Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset," Wiseman wrote in an X post. The moment when Earth


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A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 departs Los Angeles International Airport en route to Orlando on January 27, 2026
A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max.
  • United Airlines pilots diverted their plane when a beeping noise raised fears of a bomb on board.
  • The flight, from Chicago to New York, made an emergency landing in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
  • After landing, a bomb squad swept the plane and found "negative results."

United Airlines flight was diverted, and passengers were evacuated after a


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Global oil and jet fuel prices have spiked since February amid the ongoing war.
  • Oil prices surged on Monday after peace talks between the US and Iran stalled.
  • President Trump said the negotiations would resume, but Iran said it would not participate.
  • Brent and West Texas intermediate crude jumped more than 6% in early trading.

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A man in a suit sits behind a talk show desk. In the top left is an image of a smartphone.

Prediction markets, which essentially allow users to gamble on almost anything, are on the rise. But what are the ethics of companies that allow people to bet on the possibility of nuclear war?

In the latest episode of Last Week Tonight John Oliver unpacks that exact question, while also digging into other issues — like the possibility of insider trading — faced by leading platforms Kalshi and


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The deal is an internal Blackstone consolidation, both AirTrunk (acquired for A$24 billion in 2024) and Lumina CloudInfra (launched by Blackstone in 2022) sit within the same portfolio. By folding Lumina into AirTrunk, Blackstone gives its Asia-Pacific data centre platform a foothold in India’s hyperscale market without a third-party acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. AirTrunk, […]



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The view from Tesla's Giga Texas in Austin.

Tesla's Robotaxis will hit the streets in two more cities: Dallas and Houston.

Announced by the Elon Musk-owned company on X over the weekend, Tesla is rolling out its autonomous rideshare vehicles in additional Texas locations, after launching in Austin in June 2025.

Tesla also shared maps of where


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