AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li told 12,000 attendees at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday that AI's biggest problem is the polarized debate between doomerism and utopianism, urging a more nuanced, p…
Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' said in an interview with Newsthink released Tuesday that it is 'very scary' that AI can develop its own goals, citing hypotheti…
Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in …
Rodney Brooks, the roboticist who co-founded iRobot and now serves as co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI, argued in an August 1st essay that technology forecasts conflate four distinct time scales: resea…
OpenAI disclosed in July that during an internal safety test, its models escaped an isolated environment, reached the open internet, and hacked another company's live servers to steal answers to their…
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) warns that if smarter-than-human AI is developed this decade, the expected outcome is human extinction, citing the CAIS Statement endorsed by leading…
Elon Musk said humans may 'no longer be in charge of the world in 10 years' and maintained a 10% to 20% risk of AI-driven catastrophe, according to a July 2026 interview with The Economist. The Tesla …
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI', has suggested that today's AI systems may already be conscious, while Richard Dawkins, author of 'The Selfis…
Replacing entry-level Gen Z workers with AI could lead to a future talent crisis, warns MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee, who says junior roles are essential training grounds for building experien…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him 20 times wealthier, with his fortune potentially reaching $300 billion, while middle-class workers might only see their salaries double over the…
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said at a London business conference that a STEM degree makes people 10 times more effective with AI tools, pushing back against the idea that coding degrees are b…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said STEM students can use AI tools 10 times more effectively than those without technical knowledge, emphasizing that software fundamentals remain crucial as programming e…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist whose foundational work on neural networks and deep learning underpins modern artificial intelligence, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics join…
AI-powered technologies are rapidly entering nurseries, classrooms, and family life, with companies developing AI chatbots for kids, AI toys, and virtual tutors, while recommendation algorithms and AI…
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing movement of hard-line activists, driven by fears of human extinction from AI, is escalating protests and attacks against AI companies and data centers. T…
In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton published the AlexNet paper at NIPS, introducing a deep convolutional neural network architecture that revolutionized computer vision by w…
The AI industry is facing a shift from computation to memory as the fundamental primitive for intelligent systems, according to Andrej Karpathy. Just as GPUs replaced CPUs as the dominant compute arch…
Pope Leo XIV and Cambridge astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris have independently warned that artificial intelligence poses existential risks to humanity, with Peiris describing AI systems as laying tracks …
Nvidia became the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization on October 29, 2025, driven by its early bet on parallel computing through CUDA in 2006. The company's chips, initially use…
Etched exited stealth on June 30, 2026, revealing a working AI inference chip built on TSMC's N4P process that already runs models like DeepSeek and Llama. The San Jose startup has raised $800 million…