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Technology

AI-Exposed Jobs Are Vanishing — And Companies Aren't Getting Returns for It

130,000 customer service roles vanished in a year. The companies replacing them with AI aren't seeing returns — Gartner found the layoffs had zero correlation with whether the technology actually works.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 17, 2026

Health

Two Countries, One Outbreak: WHO Declares Ebola an International Emergency

The Ebola strain spreading across Congo and Uganda has no approved vaccine, no approved treatment, and no candidate vaccine ready for clinical trials. WHO just declared it an international emergency — but not a pandemic.

Carl Sage May 17, 2026

Gaming

Forza Horizon 6 Tops Steam With 85% Positive — Fans Call It the Series' Best

172,093 concurrent players on Steam before the game even officially launches. Forza Horizon 6 doubled its predecessor's all-time player peak — and critics handed it a perfect 10.

Tyler Vincere May 17, 2026

Science

146,932 Phantom Citations: The Academic Integrity Crisis AI Made Worse

An audit of 111 million academic references found 146,932 fabricated citations in 2025 alone. Social science preprints had a hallucination rate nearly five times higher than any other field.

Carl Sage May 16, 2026

Technology

Even OpenAI Can't Outrun a Poisoned npm Package

OpenAI builds frontier AI. It still got breached through a poisoned npm package. Attackers grabbed internal credentials from two employee machines — the most ordinary attack in the book, against one of the least ordinary companies in the world.

Jonny V. Nuovo May 16, 2026

World

Russia's Oil Waiver Expired. Nobody in Washington Mentioned It.

The waiver that let India buy Russian seaborne oil expired at midnight. The Treasury posted no notice, offered no explanation, and declined to comment.

Von Clause May 16, 2026

World

200 Jets, 450 Engines, and One Careful Word: Preliminary

Boeing gets a commitment for 200 aircraft. Beijing gets engine supply guarantees. And China's government quietly labels the whole thing "preliminary."

Von Clause May 16, 2026

Business

300,000 Commuters Left Stranded as LIRR Workers Walk Off the Job

The busiest commuter rail in the US went dark after 3,500 workers walked out — the first LIRR strike in 32 years. The sticking points are wages and health care, and neither side is talking.

Maynard Keys May 16, 2026

World

528 Bodies Came Home. Then Russia Sent 300 Drones.

On Friday, 205 prisoners of war walked free from Russian captivity. On Saturday, 528 bodies followed. Overnight between the two, Russia launched 294 drones at Ukraine.

Von Clause May 16, 2026