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Half a million people handed over a hundred dollars each for Donald Trump's branded gold phone, and not a single device has shipped. Nearly six hundred thousand buyers collectively paid fifty-nine million dollars for a product that, so far, exists mostly as a promise. Critics are calling it a straightforward pre-order scam, while supporters say manufacturing timelines explain the delay. Either way, that's a lot of money sitting in limbo.
Turning to legal news, the Texas Attorney General has filed suit against Netflix, alleging the streaming giant collects user data without proper consent. The case centers specifically on children's accounts, raising questions about whether Netflix's data practices comply with state privacy law. It's the latest in a growing wave of state-level challenges to how big tech platforms handle the information of younger users.
And on the battlefield of the future, the US Army is testing robotic vehicles designed to evacuate wounded soldiers without putting medics in the line of fire. In exercises built around drone-saturated combat scenarios, AI-assisted systems took on one of the most dangerous jobs in ground warfare. The results, the Army says, are promising enough to keep pushing forward.
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