Government & Policy NASA Faces Historic Budget Massacre: Can America’s Space Legacy Survive? NASA’s budget faces a 25% cut while China’s space program soars—America’s decades of cosmic dominance could end in 2026. AITechBrief EditorAugust 13, 2025
Security Kremlin Hackers Breach US Court Systems, Endangering Confidential Informants Russian hackers infiltrated US courts for years, stealing sealed files containing informant names—and they’re still inside the system right now. AITechBrief EditorAugust 13, 2025
Future of Work & AI The AI Paradox: Why Robots Are Sending Job Candidates Back to Human Interviewers AI promises smarter hiring, yet 61% of candidates get ghosted while robots send qualified applicants straight back to human interviewers anyway. AITechBrief EditorAugust 13, 2025
AI & Tech Investments Chrome Takeover: How Perplexity’s $34.5B Bid Could Dethrone Google’s AI Empire Perplexity’s audacious $34.5B Chrome bid could obliterate Google’s AI monopoly—but the financing mystery deepens as investors claim zero knowledge. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
Crypto Bitcoin Blasts Beyond Earth: Blue Origin Embraces Crypto for Space Adventures Blue Origin now accepts Bitcoin for space tickets while satellites could mine crypto using orbital solar power and extreme cooling. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
Climate After 66 Years of Icy Silence: Melting Antarctic Glacier Yields British Scientist’s Body Antarctica’s melting ice just returned a British scientist who vanished in 1959—his body perfectly preserved after 66 years frozen in time. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
AI Customer Experience (CX) AI Takes Over Phoenix’s 911 Non-Emergency Line, Humans Step Aside Phoenix replaces 500,000 annual non-emergency calls with AI while human dispatchers abandon their posts for machines that never sleep. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
Future of Work & AI Korean ‘Café Warriors’ Face Starbucks Crackdown on Desktop PCs and Printers Korean students transform Starbucks into personal offices with desktop PCs and printers—until the coffee giant fights back against “cagong” culture. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
AI Ethics & Society Prosecutors Hid AI Facial Recognition Tech, Court Shatters Criminal Conviction Prosecutors secretly used AI facial recognition to convict suspects—until courts exposed the deception. The legal system is fighting back. AITechBrief EditorAugust 12, 2025
Security The Telltale Flicker: How Light Patterns Expose AI-Generated Fake Videos AI-generated videos betray themselves through impossible shadows, flickering skin tones, and physics-defying light patterns that experts can spot instantly. AITechBrief EditorAugust 11, 2025