Jackson Dahl hosted a two-hour podcast with Tyler Cowen and Nabeel Qureshi, focusing on art and aesthetics, discussing topics from sacred commitments to AI acceleration, and exploring their shared tas…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…
A peer-reviewed PNAS Nexus study found that leading large language models, including GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, and Gemini 2.5, fail catastrophically on simple cognitive tasks …
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…
The Democratic primary in New York's 12th Congressional District saw approximately $26.3 million in ad spending, making it the second-most expensive House primary on record, as opposing AI industry fa…
Tech billionaires Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman spent $29 million through super PAC Leading the Future to win a New York congressional primary for candidate Micah Lasher, signaling the AI industry…
OpenAI backers spent $7.6 million to defeat New York Assemblyman Alex Bores in a congressional primary, while Anthropic-funded groups spent over $10 million to support him, turning the race into a pro…
Anthropic restricted access to its frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, then removed them entirely, prompting Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst to warn against building on technology from a single countr…
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst argues that the recent ban of Anthropic's AI model in certain jurisdictions validates Cohere's push for sovereign AI, emphasizing the need for countries to control their …
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a J…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employmen…
Tech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers at a record pace, citing AI as the primary reason, but critics including Marc Andreessen argue AI is a convenient excuse for pandemic-era ove…
The Trump Administration ordered Anthropic to block foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models under export controls, prompting the company to cut off access entirely. Tech experts and polic…
Anthropic released Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code on May 28, 2026, enabling the model to write its own JavaScript harness for tasks including code migrations, deep research, and 1,000-item sorts. Th…
Tech titans including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen have hailed artificial intelligence as humanity's most revolutionary technology, yet many users are deploying it to gene…
Former members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have launched a venture capital-backed startup called Special, with funding from Marc Andreessen's a16z and other former DOGE a…
Obsidian CEO Steph Ango shipped official Claude Skills for the note-taking app, amassing 12,900 GitHub stars in three months and enabling a free, AI-powered personal knowledge system. The integration …
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says artificial general intelligence is "nowhere near" existing, while Marc Andreessen claims AGI is already here. The disagreement stems from competing definit…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, calling for the "disarmament" of artificial intelligence to serve the common good. The 40,000-word document, issued alongs…
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told Joe Rogan that AI coding agents are superior to human employees because they never get drunk, sick, or file HR complaints, and they work 24/7 without emotional …