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The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

AI super PACs are threatening to drown out the rest of politics.

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

Amazon Decided Profit Doesn’t Matter on Galaxy S25 Ultra, Zero-Margin Play Crushes iPhone 17 Pro

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Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger

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Chinese Robot Sets Guinness World Record With 66-Mile Walk

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

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Gizmodo’s Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Gaming Gear, and More

We reviewed a ton of gadgets this year. Here's our list of winners for everything that blew us away.

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Artificial Intelligence

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The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

AI super PACs are threatening to drown out the rest of politics.

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger

Chinese Robot Sets Guinness World Record With 66-Mile Walk

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

Congress Calls Anthropic CEO to Testify About AI Cyberattack Allegedly From China

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak

Commerce

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Verizon Begins Laying Off Thousands of Workers

Another tech giant commences with mass firings.

Commerce Lucas Ropek

Study Finds Around a Quarter of Polymarket Trades Are Fake

Commerce AJ Dellinger

October Layoffs Were the Worst in 22 Years and Hit Tech Workers Hard

Commerce Lucas Ropek

‘These Horrible Objects Are Illegal’: French Authorities Discover Alleged Child Sex Dolls on Shein

Commerce Mike Pearl

Agility Digit robot at an Amazon warehouse.

Leaked Amazon Plans Say Robots Will Help It Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers

Commerce Bruce Gil

Crime

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Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying About Astronaut Wife Accessing Her Bank Account From Space

Astronaut Anne McClain was accused of "identity fraud" while in space.

Crime Matt Novak

Crypto Bros’ Mistrial Was Such an ‘Emotional Burden’ for Deadlocked Jurors That ‘Half’ of Them Cried

Crime Mike Pearl

China Huai'an Guan Dan Card Game Players

The Obscure Tech at the Heart of the Bombshell NBA Gambling Scandal

Crime Lucas Ropek

Miami Has a New Cop on the Beat: A Drone-Launching Police Car That Can Drive Itself

Crime Lucas Ropek

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If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed

Crime Matt Novak

Cryptocurrencies

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U.S. Bank Calls Ability to Freeze Stablecoins ‘Appealing’ as Crypto Has Completely Lost the Plot

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Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey

President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on November 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Trump-Backed Crypto Company Promotes ‘Shit Piss Skin Can’ Coin

Cryptocurrencies Matt Novak

$11 Million Crypto Theft in Broad Daylight Is Latest in Increasingly Common $5 Wrench Attacks

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey

Digital Code On The Background Of A 100 Us Dollar Bill. Hacker Attacks

Crypto Founder Defends FBI Involvement After Developer Accidentally Causes Blockchain Split

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey

Insider Trading Suspicions and Shafted Token Holders at the Heart of Latest Coinbase Controversy

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey

Culture

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Letterboxd Is Launching Its Own Unique Take on a ‘Video Store’

You'll be able to watch—not just talk about—movies.

Culture Lucas Ropek

GQ's Katherine Stoeffel and actress Sydney Sweeney in screenshots that have gone viral.

Sydney Sweeney’s Transformation Into a Right-Wing Meme WasNot a ‘Total Aesthetic Victory’

Culture Matt Novak

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How to Stream the Movie ‘Wag the Dog’ For Free

Culture Matt Novak

Lina Khan Stays Remarkably on Message on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’

Culture AJ Dellinger

The MAHA Movement Has a New Misunderstood Hero: Elizabeth Holmes

Culture Lucas Ropek

Gadgets

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We Bullied Microsoft Into Making Its Handheld Feel More Like an Xbox

No console should make players adjust graphics settings per game to get a good experience.

Gadgets Kyle Barr

The Arms Dealer’s Nintendo 64 Will Be Fully Unveiled on Black Friday

Gadgets Kyle Barr

Where Is the Trump Phone?

Gadgets Lucas Ropek

You Shouldn’t Expect a Cheap Steam Machine

Gadgets Kyle Barr

We’re So Screwed: AI Is Making Every Gadget Cost More

Gadgets Kyle Barr

Internet

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Search Epstein’s Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible

It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.

Internet Matt Novak

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

Internet Ece Yildirim

The FBI Is Trying to Unmask the Registrar Behind Archive.Today

Internet Lucas Ropek

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Chegg Lays Off Hundreds, Replaces CEO, All Because of AI

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

Neato Robot Vacuums Return to Dumb Mode After Company Cuts Cloud Services

Internet AJ Dellinger

Politics

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The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

AI super PACs are threatening to drown out the rest of politics.

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

White House Hopes to Save Elon From Testifying in DOGE Lawsuit

Politics Lucas Ropek

First Lady Melania Trump looks on as US President Donald Trump pardons Gobble, one of the National Thanksgiving turkeys, during the White House turkey pardon ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on November 25, 2025.

Trump Questions Whether Turkeys He Pardoned Are Really MAHA Because They’re ‘Fat’

Politics Matt Novak

Tucker Carlson is Launching His Own Precious Metals Company

Politics Lucas Ropek

Howard Lutnick with President Donald Trump, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.

The Sons of Trump’s Commerce Secretary Are Making Money in the Data Center Biz

Politics Lucas Ropek

Privacy & Security

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Uk Regulator Says Porn Websites Must Introduce Stronger Age Verification Measures

Pornhub Begs Tech Giants to Verify User Ages on Their Device: Report

We're moving closer to digital IDs.

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger

A Waymo Robotaxi May Have Recorded Footage of a Deadly Shooting in San Francisco

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

A photo of the outside of the White House and the gate surrounding it. A sign reads "Restricted Area: Do Not Enter."

As Spyware Companies Get Chummy with White House, Apple and WhatsApp Say They’ll Protect Your Phone

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

European Countries Probing ‘Security Loophole’ in China-Made Electric Buses

Privacy & Security Bruce Gil

Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl

Social Media

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DHS Denies Its X Account Was Based in Israel as New Location Tracking Creates Chaos

Elon Musk's big change to X has caused an apocalypse for MAGA influencers, but it's not all good news.

Social Media Matt Novak

New X Feature Reveals Many MAGA Patriots on X Are Not Even Based in The U.S.

Social Media Ece Yildirim

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Meta Learns That Nothing Is a Monopoly If You Just Wait Long Enough

Social Media AJ Dellinger

Meta Loses Its Chief Revenue Officer as Zuckerberg Tries to Win the AI Race

Social Media Lucas Ropek

Rejoice! Jack Dorsey (Who Killed Vine) Is Resurrecting Vine

Social Media Lucas Ropek

Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve got the coolest video you’ll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. The video, titled “Right Up Our Alley,” was created by Sky Candy Studios and directed by Anthony Jaska. The…

Sploid Matt Novak

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Sploid Alyse Stanley

You’re Not Doing the Fourth of July Right If You’re Not Blowing Up the World’s Largest Fireworks Tank

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

A Tiny Drone Carrying a Deconstructed GoPro Captured This Incredible Dinosaur Museum Fly-Through

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

I Wasn’t Prepared for the Crushing Melancholy of Watching This Bull Pop His Toy Ball

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Tech Policy

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Settlement Reached That Limits Your Landlord’s Favorite Alleged Rent-Fixing Software

Per the settlement, the platform can no longer mix nonpublic data from competitors when setting prices.

Tech Policy Mike Pearl

Marc Andreessen-Backed Super-PAC Pours Millions Into Fighting State AI Regulations

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim

DOGE Is Officially Dead

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim

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Republicans and Europe Agree: It’s Time to Make Life Easier for AI Companies

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim

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Silicon Valley’s Plausible Path to the Designer Baby Business—Even Though It’s Illegal

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim

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Abrupt Exit of GM’s AI Chief Latest in Tough Times for Automakers

“Physical AI is just as exciting as LLMs,” Turovsky said while announcing that he's going to work on some new ideas.

Transportation Zac Estrada

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California Just Legalized Waymo in Some of the Nation’s Most Populous Areas

Transportation Mike Pearl

That Zoox Robotaxi Ride You’ve Been Clamoring for Is Now Available in San Francisco

Transportation Mike Pearl

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Tesla Diner Chef and Co-Operator Quits to Open a Jewish Deli

Politics Mike Pearl

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Tesla Is in Trouble with Travis County, Texas

Transportation Mike Pearl

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The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

Amazon Decided Profit Doesn’t Matter on Galaxy S25 Ultra, Zero-Margin Play Crushes iPhone 17 Pro

Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports

Chinese Robot Sets Guinness World Record With 66-Mile Walk

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video

Gizmodo’s Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Gaming Gear, and More

The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

Amazon Decided Profit Doesn’t Matter on Galaxy S25 Ultra, Zero-Margin Play Crushes iPhone 17 Pro

Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports

Chinese Robot Sets Guinness World Record With 66-Mile Walk

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video

Congress Calls Anthropic CEO to Testify About AI Cyberattack Allegedly From China

There’s an AI Industry Civil War Brewing in D.C.

U.S. Bank Calls Ability to Freeze Stablecoins ‘Appealing’ as Crypto Has Completely Lost the Plot

OpenAI Is Just $200 Billion Away From Still Losing Money, HSBC Says

Trump-Backed Crypto Company Promotes ‘Shit Piss Skin Can’ Coin

HP Joins List of Tech Companies Cutting Jobs and Pointing to AI

We Bullied Microsoft Into Making Its Handheld Feel More Like an Xbox

Abrupt Exit of GM’s AI Chief Latest in Tough Times for Automakers

OpenAI Court Filing Cites Adam Raine’s ChatGPT Rule Violations as Potential Cause of His Suicide

Settlement Reached That Limits Your Landlord’s Favorite Alleged Rent-Fixing Software

White House Hopes to Save Elon From Testifying in DOGE Lawsuit

A New Way to Ruin Thanksgiving: Making AI Slop Recipes

$11 Million Crypto Theft in Broad Daylight Is Latest in Increasingly Common $5 Wrench Attacks

Trump Questions Whether Turkeys He Pardoned Are Really MAHA Because They’re ‘Fat’

AI Teddy Bear That Talked Fetishes and Knives Is Back on the Market

The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports

Chinese Robot Sets Guinness World Record With 66-Mile Walk

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video

Congress Calls Anthropic CEO to Testify About AI Cyberattack Allegedly From China

Verizon Begins Laying Off Thousands of Workers

Study Finds Around a Quarter of Polymarket Trades Are Fake

October Layoffs Were the Worst in 22 Years and Hit Tech Workers Hard

‘These Horrible Objects Are Illegal’: French Authorities Discover Alleged Child Sex Dolls on Shein

Leaked Amazon Plans Say Robots Will Help It Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers

Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying About Astronaut Wife Accessing Her Bank Account From Space

Crypto Bros’ Mistrial Was Such an ‘Emotional Burden’ for Deadlocked Jurors That ‘Half’ of Them Cried

The Obscure Tech at the Heart of the Bombshell NBA Gambling Scandal

Miami Has a New Cop on the Beat: A Drone-Launching Police Car That Can Drive Itself

If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed

U.S. Bank Calls Ability to Freeze Stablecoins ‘Appealing’ as Crypto Has Completely Lost the Plot

Trump-Backed Crypto Company Promotes ‘Shit Piss Skin Can’ Coin

$11 Million Crypto Theft in Broad Daylight Is Latest in Increasingly Common $5 Wrench Attacks

Crypto Founder Defends FBI Involvement After Developer Accidentally Causes Blockchain Split

Insider Trading Suspicions and Shafted Token Holders at the Heart of Latest Coinbase Controversy

Letterboxd Is Launching Its Own Unique Take on a ‘Video Store’

Sydney Sweeney’s Transformation Into a Right-Wing Meme WasNot a ‘Total Aesthetic Victory’

How to Stream the Movie ‘Wag the Dog’ For Free

Lina Khan Stays Remarkably on Message on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’

The MAHA Movement Has a New Misunderstood Hero: Elizabeth Holmes

We Bullied Microsoft Into Making Its Handheld Feel More Like an Xbox

The Arms Dealer’s Nintendo 64 Will Be Fully Unveiled on Black Friday

Where Is the Trump Phone?

You Shouldn’t Expect a Cheap Steam Machine

We’re So Screwed: AI Is Making Every Gadget Cost More

Search Epstein’s Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

The FBI Is Trying to Unmask the Registrar Behind Archive.Today

Chegg Lays Off Hundreds, Replaces CEO, All Because of AI

Neato Robot Vacuums Return to Dumb Mode After Company Cuts Cloud Services

The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck

White House Hopes to Save Elon From Testifying in DOGE Lawsuit

Trump Questions Whether Turkeys He Pardoned Are Really MAHA Because They’re ‘Fat’

Tucker Carlson is Launching His Own Precious Metals Company

The Sons of Trump’s Commerce Secretary Are Making Money in the Data Center Biz

Pornhub Begs Tech Giants to Verify User Ages on Their Device: Report

A Waymo Robotaxi May Have Recorded Footage of a Deadly Shooting in San Francisco

As Spyware Companies Get Chummy with White House, Apple and WhatsApp Say They’ll Protect Your Phone

European Countries Probing ‘Security Loophole’ in China-Made Electric Buses

Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now

DHS Denies Its X Account Was Based in Israel as New Location Tracking Creates Chaos

New X Feature Reveals Many MAGA Patriots on X Are Not Even Based in The U.S.

Meta Learns That Nothing Is a Monopoly If You Just Wait Long Enough

Meta Loses Its Chief Revenue Officer as Zuckerberg Tries to Win the AI Race

Rejoice! Jack Dorsey (Who Killed Vine) Is Resurrecting Vine

This Drone in a Bowling Alley Is the Coolest Video You’ll See All Week

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man