California attracted over $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, ten times more than any other state, with nearly 90% of invested dollars going to AI firms. Despite a billionaire exodus an…
Economists warn that AI poses a greater threat to back-office jobs like customer service representatives, bookkeepers, and payroll clerks than to software engineers, as these roles are more vulnerable…
Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026 that AI-generated code often creates more junk than useful output, describing many patches as 'mindless band-aid' fixes. He uses LLMs for prototypi…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman exchanged insults on X after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, with Musk calling Altman a scammer and Altman accusing Musk of selling investors on short-term space datacen…
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned that 2027 will be the memory industry's worst-ever year for supply shortages, with tight conditions likely persisting beyond 2030, driven by surging AI demand. The wa…
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…
Microsoft's 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report reveals a 25% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, driven by AI-related datacenter construction and reduced renewable energy certificate purchases…
The Free Software Foundation sysadmins are using the open-source tool 'reaction' to block botnets, including the Vo1d/Popa botnet comprising compromised smart TVs, which were scraping data for AI mode…
Chinese AI companies are using a technique called distillation to copy American AI models, with Anthropic and OpenAI accusing firms like Alibaba's Qwen team of stealing intellectual property. Anthropi…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) celebrated its 36th anniversary, with new executive director calling for public support in the fight for digital rights. The organization highlighted ongoing b…
A journalist for The Drive was wrongly arrested by Plymouth, Minnesota police after Flock license plate cameras flagged his loaned Range Rover as stolen due to a data entry error by the Los Angeles Po…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano suspects a majority of his class used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, leading him to administer an in-person final that resulted in historicall…
OpenAI is retiring its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch, shifting browsing features into a redesigned ChatGPT desktop app that combines Codex and ChatGPT Work. The Windows version o…
OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role to become a part-time adviser after taking extended medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo, who jo…
Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating materials discovery. Yaghi, who won the Nobel…
U.S. lawmakers are investigating the growing use of Chinese AI models by American companies like Cursor and Airbnb, citing concerns over censorship, security risks, and reliance on cheaper foreign alt…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work after receiving approval from the Trump administration, with the new AI agent combining ChatGPT and Codex capabilities to create documents, spreadsheets, and w…
Google has contributed its Open Health Stack project code and assets to the Linux Foundation, which will launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation to build open source, AI-ready digital health …
Meta announced it will build its first Canadian data center in Alberta, investing $9 billion in a facility that can scale to 1.8 gigawatts to support its AI infrastructure. The project will rely on ne…
Anthropic researchers discovered an internal activation subspace in Claude, called J-space, that functions as a digital equivalent to the human brain's global workspace, satisfying five key cognitive …