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Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI must lead through controlled openness, a strategy that parallels the FBI's surveillance of a man recorded without his knowledge. The piece critiques the assum…
Cognitive debt, the inability to keep up with code generated by AI agents, is reframed as leverage that can accelerate development but risks creating systems no human understands. Drawing on Peter Naur's concept of progr…
A researcher tested 18 AI models by stonewalling them on a deadline and found that models only sounded upset when the concept of being upset was introduced in the conversation, not by the amount of stonewalling. The stud…
The essay argues that true empowerment from technology comes not from improving markets but from dissolving them, using the historical disappearance of scribes as a template. It contends that how a technology is shared—o…
Two Harvard dropouts raised $800 million to build AI data centers that consume vast amounts of energy and water, with a single GPT-4 training run using 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity and large inference clusters using …
The International Monetary Fund warns that the massive debt financing AI infrastructure poses a greater economic threat than an AI bubble, noting that 60% of planned data centers have not broken ground.
A researcher argues that alignment work is more promising than control work for ensuring AI safety, claiming that alignment interventions can scale further with AI capabilities than control measures. The author contends …
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulation. Thiel argued that…
A man walked into the White House in 2023 with an AI chatbot-generated recipe for a pandemic, and by 2026 the New York Times reported that leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now guide users in creatin…
Maintainers using generative AI to write library code are introducing unprecedented quality, legal, and maintenance risks into the open-source supply chain, as downstream projects face broken changes, unmaintainable code…
Frontier Co. launches to help enterprises build their own AI systems that continuously improve by turning knowledge, workflows, and judgment into learning loops. The initiative emphasizes capturing decision rationale as …
A Bitcoin Policy Institute report found that a nonprofit network linked to the Chinese Communist Party has blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI data center projects across 14 U.S. states, including a $12 billion Blacks…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized frontier AI labs for their business model, accusing them of overselling doom and imposing a wealth tax on enterprises, while pitching Palantir's platform as a solution for data sovereign…
GitHub added Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model to Copilot on July 1, 2026, making it the first China-based lab's model available in the platform. The trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model offers a chea…
An essay on Aeon argues that current metrics fail to capture the full societal impact of artificial intelligence, highlighting the need for new ways to measure AI's benefits beyond traditional quantitative assessments.
Two CNBC appearances by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and market analyst Ed Zitron outline a bearish scenario for American AI, predicting a bubble burst as customer demand fails to justify trillion-dollar data center costs, lea…
Zou Weiluo, a 13-year-old Shanghai boy diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at 7 months and given a life expectancy of 4 years, graduated as a star student from Luwan No. 1 Central Primary School. Supported by his fami…
Course creator Josh W. Comeau reports that his third course, Whimsical Animations, is selling roughly one-third as many copies as typical launches, with overall course revenue down 50% or more. He attributes the decline …
Tripadvisor's AI-generated hotel summaries and chatbot downplay or omit reports of food poisoning, hygiene failures, and sexual harassment, according to consumer group Which? and multiple news outlets. The Riu Palace San…
A simulation study by Dan Pandori challenges the unawareness argument against impartial altruism, finding that agents who respect incomparability by defaulting to the status quo fall into a self-sealing trap and never ac…