White Influencer Lauren Blake Boultier used AI to place her face on a photo of Black influencer Tatiana Elizabeth, according to People Magazine. The image was a 2-year-old photo of Elizabeth at the US Open. Boultier shared the image to her 1.6 million followers last month, leading them to believe she attended the Miami Open. Social media users started to notice that the image belonged to Elizabeth. On March 30, Elizabeth posted a screenshot of Bouliter’s photo next to her original on threads. The image showed that Boultier was wearing the
Victor Glover will be the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon. Clover is part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, which includes Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen. The four astronauts will embark on a 10-day trip around the moon. The launch will be the first time astronauts have traveled to the moon in more than 50 years, according to NBC News. Whilst the astronauts will not land on the moon, the launch hopes to pave the way for a moon landing in two years. Glover will
On Tuesday, 9th March, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) issued an air permit allowing Elon Musk’s xAI to operate tons of gas turbines at its facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The permit board’s decision comes weeks after community members held a hearing to share concerns about xAI’s potential health effects, according to a press statement. Internal documents from MDEQ and EPA indicate that the agency faced intense pressure to approve xAI’s air permit swiftly. “We are outraged that, despite the community’s clear demand to move the Election Day hearing,
Target Hospitality, a company that holds families detained by ICE, is pivoting to build an AI data center. As the rise in AI data centres continues, companies are using temporary villages, or “man camps,” to house workers. “Man-camps” are temporary housing communities created for oil and gas workers in remote locations, but they are now being repurposed as AI data centers. For example, a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas, has been converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, according to Bloomberg. Workers have access to a gym,
Morehouse College, a historically Black college and university, has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a supercomputer. The Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing has received the initial $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to start building the supercomputer Horizon. Further capital will be donated to support similar initiatives. The grant is part of a wider $457 million project to build one of the most powerful academic supercomputers in the southeast. The college will become a national hub by introducing
A British Asian man was arrested for a burglary 80 miles away from his home after facial recognition mistook him for another man from a South Asian background, The Guardian reports. In January, 26-year-old Alvi Choudhury was taken in by the police at his parents’ home in Southampton. The burglary took place in Milton Keynes, which is 80 miles (130km) away from his home. Facial recognition wrongfully arresting man of color In January, 26-year-old Alvi Choudhury was taken in by the police at his parents’ home in Southampton. The burglary
Reload launched its flagship product, Epic, this week, following a $2.275 million funding round to provide a management system for autonomous AI agents within software engineering teams. Reporting from TechCrunch indicates that Reload aims to transform ad hoc developer AI usage into a governed corporate system with specific permissions and persistent oversight. This shift is significant because the entity controlling the system of record for AI agents dictates how automated labor is tracked, audited, and integrated across disparate vendor models. Organizations currently face fragmentation as different agents perform isolated tasks
Fortune 500 companies cut public disclosure of diversity and inclusion efforts by 65% in 2026, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s latest Corporate Equality Index data. A press release from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF), attributes the pullback to a political and regulatory environment that leaves corporate leaders unsure how to communicate DEI while meeting expectations from employees, shareholders, and consumers. The shift matters because disclosure operates as a market signal and a governance artifact. When firms reduce public reporting, workers and investors lose a standardized way to
Target’s new CEO, Michael Fiddelke, told employees in Minneapolis on Feb. 4, 2026, that he plans to rebuild customer and employee trust after the retailer’s pullback from DEI triggered backlash. Reporting from Bloomberg News shows Fiddelke used his first town hall to concede that Target “lost” trust and that leadership failed to communicate clearly in the moment. CNN reports that the credibility gap was tied to the dismantling of DEI commitments, including a program that helped Black-owned businesses secure shelf placement, plus the removal of minority hiring goals and the
Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino tequila has generated about $200 million in cumulative retail sales since 2022, executives said on Yahoo Finance’s “Opening Bid.” Reporting from Yahoo Finance cites co-founder and liquor executive James Morrissey saying the brand produced $85 million in 2025 retail sales, sold 3.6 million bottles, and delivered nearly $2 million in weekly consumer-level sales in stores. Yahoo Finance also reported that Gran Coramino sold nearly 300,000 nine-liter cases in roughly three years, with about half of those cases attributed to 2025. The numbers matter because U.S. spirits
