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6,000 Job Applications, Zero Offers: CS Grads Face Reality Check

6,000 Job Applications, Zero Offers: CS Grads Face Reality Check

A computer science grad with a Purdue degree sent nearly 6000 job applications and just got rejected by McDonald's for "lack of experience." The only interview call? Chipotle. Welcome to tech's new reality.

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China's Cashless Revolution Just Showed Us Our AI Future—And Most of You Aren't Ready

China's Cashless Revolution Just Showed Us Our AI Future—And Most of You Aren't Ready

A vending machine that won't take cash. Museum tickets only through WeChat. Taxis that ignore you without the right app. This isn't dystopian fiction, it's China today. And it's exactly what's about to happen with AI literacy, except faster and more brutal.

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Genie 3 and the Death of Reality: Just Words, Now Worlds

Genie 3 and the Death of Reality: Just Words, Now Worlds

If this isn’t proof we live in a simulation built by future humans… it’s the next best thing. Genie 3 turns text into interactive reality—and we’re not ready.

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Silicon Valley Just Spent $102.5 Billion on Concrete and Steel. The Age of Code Is Dead.

Silicon Valley Just Spent $102.5 Billion on Concrete and Steel. The Age of Code Is Dead.

Tech's biggest players aren't building apps anymore. They're pouring foundations for data centers that dwarf steel mills. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon collectively dropped $102.5 billion on data centers, more than most countries' GDP.

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Google's AI Just Created a Digital Twin of Earth

Google's AI Just Created a Digital Twin of Earth

Google just mapped every 10x10 meter square of Earth. The catch? They trained an AI on trillions of images to see through clouds.

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McKinsey's Baker's Dozen: 13 Tech Trends That Will Own 2025 (Spoiler: AI Touches Everything)

McKinsey's Baker's Dozen: 13 Tech Trends That Will Own 2025 (Spoiler: AI Touches Everything)

McKinsey just dropped their annual tech trends report. AI isn't just leading—it's infiltrating every other trend like digital oxygen. Your competition is already moving on at least three of these.

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China Just Proposed a Global AI Organization. The Tech Cold War Goes Nuclear

China Just Proposed a Global AI Organization. The Tech Cold War Goes Nuclear

While Trump strips AI regulations, China's Premier Li Qiang drops a geopolitical bombshell: a new global AI cooperation organization. The camps are forming. Pick your side.

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AI's $1B Secret: The Best Engineers Stopped Writing Prompts in 2025

AI's $1B Secret: The Best Engineers Stopped Writing Prompts in 2025

Everyone's still tweaking prompts. Meanwhile, the winners rewired how AI thinks. Context engineering just changed everything.

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Building Tomorrow: The $51.6M Chip That Breaks AI's Energy Crisis

Building Tomorrow: The $51.6M Chip That Breaks AI's Energy Crisis

Silicon Valley chases AI dreams. Now they're chasing nuclear reactors to power them. The revolution just got real.

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Waste Wood Just Became Stronger Than Steel: The $500M Factory That Changes Everything

Waste Wood Just Became Stronger Than Steel: The $500M Factory That Changes Everything

Soft poplar scraps that couldn't build a garden shed are becoming bulletproof doors. Welcome to the molecular revolution changing everything.

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