According to Reason, industry claims that artificial intelligence will generate enough productivity, tax revenue, and savings to close the federal deficit are optimistic and unlikely to produce the tr…
A new global poll by UK firm Public First finds that respondents in 11 of 15 countries believe China has surpassed the US in AI capability and innovation, with only Japan, India, Vietnam, and the US f…
California faces a moral crossroads as AI-driven wealth concentration mirrors the industrial revolution's excesses, prompting debates over a billionaire tax and Pope Leo XIV's call for ethical AI guar…
Nearly 75% of unemployed workers in the U.S. did not apply for unemployment benefits in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a trend that persists as AI-driven layoffs hit a record 120,0…
SpaceX's record-breaking $75 billion IPO, valuing the company at over $2 trillion, has sparked a trading frenzy but raises concerns about sustainability. A financial journalist warns that retail inves…
Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding there, with CEO Kaz Nejatian citing a shift toward smaller AI-n…
Montana State University computer science professor Carson Gross argues that universities remain relevant in the AI era by refocusing computer science curricula on practical, code-heavy assignments. G…
Persona Atlas, a tool developed during the "build-small" hackathon, transforms public figures into measurable behavioral portraits by having a small-model agent research them online and answer open-en…
A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups a…
AI infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional tech hubs as rising compute costs, power constraints, and geopolitical barriers force innovation in regions where scarcity is a design constraint. In …
Silicon Valley is hiring philosophers with Ph.D.s and offering flush compensation packages to help build more virtuous AI systems. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are consulting moral philosophers…
Economic gains from artificial intelligence are concentrating in a small number of global hubs, including Silicon Valley, the Washington-to-Boston corridor, and Shenzhen, China, according to an op-ed …
Google's new Gemini Spark AI agent, introduced at the company's I/O developer conference, scanned a WIRED reporter's personal emails, calendar, and documents to plan a birthday party — but misidentifi…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a free, offline AI mentor for activists that runs entirely on a user's device without cloud processing or data logging. The 3GB app provi…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch warned Europe has roughly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or risk becoming a "vassal state" under US influence. The French startup is constructing a 10-me…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah stated publicly that every frontier AI lab operates within incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing, acknowledging that no lab can serve as its own final…
Tencent is expanding its AI agent WorkBuddy into overseas markets, marking a shift from a recent pattern where Silicon Valley-built agent tools dominated global discourse. WorkBuddy has spent the past…
The Illinois House of Representatives passed SB 315 on Wednesday, requiring frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to undergo third-party safety audits. The bill, which Governor …
A federal judge in San Francisco ordered law firm Quinn Emanuel to pay $3 million to Palo Alto biotech company Guardant Health, plus a $100,000 punitive fine, for misconduct by four of its Silicon Val…
Pope Leo XIV published his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on Monday, warning that artificial intelligence development cannot be left to wealthy industry leaders and must instead involve workers, tea…