In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost ever [...]

AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it

The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports [...]

Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations. [...]

Anthropic can't stop humanizing its AI models, now Claude Opus 3 gets a retirement blog

Anthropic is retiring its Claude Opus 3 AI model and letting it publish weekly essays on Substack. The company says it conducted "retirement interviews" to ask the model about its wishes, an [...]

What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.

TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order delaying enforcement of the ban was only a temporary reprie [...]

This Tamagotchi clone is designed to help you keep your plants alive

Tamagotchi ripoffs are alive and well at CES 2026, and SoildTech's spin on the idea is to stick a virtual pet in the dirt to help you stop killing your plants. Senso combines a plant health senso [...]

God help us, Donald Trump is launching Trump Mobile and plans to sell a phone

Donald Trump is launching a cellular brand called Trump Mobile. The newly formed company, which was announced today by Donald Trump Jr., will sell a single wireless plan called “The 47 Plan,” whic [...]

Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade. [...]