22 May 2026
Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and those cracks may be irreparable.
22 May 2026
Nicki Minaj Attends Failed SpaceX Launch & Praises Elon Musk ‘for Everything That You’re Doing for Humanity’
Nicki Minaj pulled up to SpaceX’s flight test in Texas on Thursday (May 21), but in this case, starships weren’t meant to fly, as the flight was postponed to due to technical issues with the the spacecraft. She joined the SpaceX broadcast for a brief chat at Starbase for the launch of the Starship rocket. Fittingly, the Queens rapper was rocking a T-shirt that was emblazoned with a “Starship”…
22 May 2026
China puts humanoid robots through tea harvesting field trials
Humanoid robots have moved from lab demos to running tracks and now into tea fields in China as teams participating in the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games began a real-world robotics challenge in Fujian Province’s tea-growing region.
22 May 2026
Watch Atlas Lift and Spin Like a Pro in This Week's Video Friday
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
22 May 2026
The Year Boomer AI Slop Came to Cannes
From Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties, tech overran the prestigious film festival. By Rachel Handler , a features writer at Vulture and New York Photo: Victor Boyko/Getty Images Photo: Victor Boyko/Getty Images A seemingly malevolent presence lurked over the Cannes Film Festival this year. I’m talking, of course, about Meta , but also something else. Some (me) wondered if there was…
22 May 2026
Jimmy Kimmel mocks Elon Musk’s criticism of Lupita Nyong’o’s ‘Odyssey’ casting
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked Elon Musk’s criticism of Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o in The Odyssey during his May 20 monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! . . Kimmel told viewers Musk had attacked Nolan for casting Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, arguing the role should have gone to a white actress. Kimmel read Musk’s post on X aloud, “Chris Nolan desecrated The Odyssey so that he would be…
22 May 2026
This Wall Street tech bull says he expects SpaceX and Tesla to merge in 2027
SpaceX's historic IPO is dominating headlines, but some on Wall Street say there could be another major change ahead for one of Elon Musk's other companies.
22 May 2026
Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum
Meta has quietly released a new standalone app for Facebook Groups, called “Forum.” The company seems to be positioning Forum as a platform that functions similarly to Reddit, describing the app as a “dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about.”
22 May 2026
Space X IPO: 'Bad news' for tech stocks but what about Bitcoin?
Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX is planning a $75 billion IPO in June, which could make it the largest near-term public listing with a major Bitcoin treasury.
