At the beginning of the year, The Cut kicked off a brief discourse cycle by declaring a new lifestyle trend: “friction-maxxing.” The idea, in a nutshell, is that people have overconvenienced themselves with apps, AI, and other means of near-instant gratification—and would be better off with increased friction in... Read more

For years, the “last mile” of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals.  Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic AI arrives, companies face a double-edged sword:... Read more

Iowa lawmakers have signed off on a far-reaching gambling bill that tightens enforcement rules and changes how certain winnings are taxed. Senate File 2289 cleared the Iowa Senate on Monday (February 23), moving forward with a package aimed squarely at how betting is regulated across the state. The proposal... Read more

Here is a gif of a video teaser Samsung released for its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung Samsung announced on Tuesday that it will hold an event on Feb. 25 in San Francisco. While the company didn’t say for sure what will be announced, we assume it will be... Read more

A former candidate in the 2026 race for governor of California and a popular YouTuber have been kicked off Kalshi’s platform for alleged violations related to insider trading, the popular prediction market revealed Wednesday. In a blog post detailing the cases, Kalshi’s head of enforcement Robert DeNault noted that... Read more

On Tuesday, Anthropic published tools that let Claude read, analyze and translate legacy COBOL into modern languages like Java and Python. By the end of the trading day, investors had wiped roughly $40 billion from IBM’s market cap — the company’s biggest single-day drop in 25 years — pricing... Read more

Tennessee lawmakers are moving closer to tightening the reins on illegal online gambling and sweepstakes after a Senate committee gave its backing to Senate Bill 2136 this week. The measure cleared the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee without a single dissenting vote, pushing it further along in the legislative... Read more

Among countertop appliances, few have such a singular purpose built right into their name as the rice cooker. Easiest way to cook rice? A rice cooker, obviously. Unlike other handy countertop kitchen appliances such as air fryers, blenders and slow cookers, the rice cooker tells you not only what... Read more

But in the worst worst-case scenario, we don’t have any control. Instead, the station will crack through the atmosphere. Sure, many pieces will likely end up in the ocean, but some might hit people, possibly in a town or a city. The station could break apart across thousands of... Read more

Anthropic opened its virtual “Briefing: Enterprise Agents” event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company’s head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in 2025 “turned out to be mostly premature,” with many pilots failing to reach production. “It wasn’t a failure of... Read more