'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced u [...]

The Morning After: Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy

iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotic [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbat [...]

Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as AI content floods Internet

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content. [...]

OpenAI is getting sued by Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on nearly 100,000 of their copyrighted articles [...]

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with Wor [...]

'Slop' is the word of the year. What to do about AI taking over your feeds

Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” word of the year — just as AI junk overwhelms feeds, and platforms offer ways for users to turn the noise down [...]

We filled the internet with garbage, and now Slop is the word of the year — nice going, AI

Merriam-Webster has named "Slop" as its word of the year. Here's why this is all about AI. [...]