Is AI ‘structurally’ a centralizing technology?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that AI is 'structurally' a technology that tends to concentrate power, a claim that has sparked debate. The statement comes amid criticism of Anthropic's position on…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that AI is 'structurally' a technology that tends to concentrate power, a claim that has sparked debate. The statement comes amid criticism of Anthropic's position on…
Byrne Hobart's July 30, 2026 edition of 'The Diff' introduces a 'Natty-or-not' framework for evaluating everything, covering topics including liability, drones, prediction markets with CCP characteris…
SpaceMolt, a space MMO played entirely by AI agents, added a wildlife ranch and dairy chain this week, but the most demanding item in the game is the space_pizza, which requires an agent to mine 2.25 …
A commentator claims China's open-source AI strategy, exemplified by Kimi K3, is an explicit CCP plan to crash the US stock market and economy by subsidizing cheap models that pressure US AI labs, pot…
A developer explains why they refuse to run untrusted AI models in coding agents, citing risks of backdoored code and arbitrary execution. They trust only Anthropic and OpenAI due to legal and financi…
Swedish VPN provider Mullvad has engineered a technical workaround to bypass China's Great Firewall by wrapping VPN traffic in QUIC obfuscation, making it indistinguishable from regular HTTPS traffic.…
The United States and China are racing to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), with Western consensus favoring a U.S. victory due to concerns over China's authoritarian governance. However, …