Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly alleges the companies are selling off-brand versions of its best-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro and Zepbound.
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He Built Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun. Did He Make a Small Fortune Dumping His Own Shitcoins as a Teen?
Long before Dylan Kerler developed memecoin launchpad Pump.Fun, somebody going by the same name made tens of thousands of dollars “rug-pulling” crypto coins that they created.
Investors Worry Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause a ‘World of Hurt’ for Startups
Donald Trump’s unpredictable tariff policies have unsettled the venture capital world, further darkening an already gloomy outlook for IPOs.
Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification
Bluesky’s new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
Only four of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts.
An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB
The Trump administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator…
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about…
Meta’s Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend
As the FTC trial has shown, a lack of competition allowed the company to shift its focus away from users—and toward its bottom line.
Google Is Once Again Deemed a Monopoly, This Time in Ad Tech
The future of Google’s advertising business is at stake after a federal judge found the company illegally monopolized parts of it.