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Rising AI compute costs are driving enterprises to adopt cheaper Chinese models like DeepSeek, with U.S. developers reporting costs of $10 per hour on Claude versus under $0.50 on DeepSeek. Companies are implementing usa…
A blogger announces a return to personal writing in 2026, arguing that human-produced text is essential to prevent AI model collapse as the internet becomes saturated with bot-generated content. The author frames bloggin…
Rep. Ro Khanna, representing Silicon Valley, argues for taxing billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, citing Meta's $56.31 billion quarterly revenue and simultaneous layoffs of 8,000 workers to fund AI infrastructure. Khanna…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped 'Artificial,' its nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's 2023 firing, four months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI. The decision, which Amazon attributed to the film being bett…
A developer argues that AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT did not kill the joy of coding; rather, they exposed a pre-existing rot in software development culture. The pressure to ship fast and treat velocity as the sole …
Economists and journalists warn that AI could cause a 'China Shock' for white-collar workers, but a closer analysis of the original China Shock's details suggests the AI disruption may be less severe. The China Shock's d…
Multiple major tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are struggling with their AI strategies, wasting billions of dollars without clear vision or execution. Meta's AI research lab is described…
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) concluded its 38th annual conference in Denver, highlighting a record surge in cyber vulnerabilities driven by AI-assisted discovery, with 2026 on track to reach …
Dataland, the world's first Museum of AI Arts, opened in Los Angeles inside Frank Gehry's The Grand LA complex, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and curator Efsun Erkılıç. The 25,000-square-foot museum features AI…
Blogger Noah Smith reflects on the diminishing influence of punditry in an era of populism, AI, and monetization, arguing that while blogging once allowed him to inject ideas into the discourse with speed and breadth, re…
Figma CEO Dylan Field said creative professionals should not fear AI-generated design, arguing that AI produces average work while humans can create something fundamentally new. He made the remarks at a San Francisco eve…
Amazon has pulled distribution of the Luca Guadagnino-directed film 'Artificial' after completion, reportedly due to concerns over its critical portrayal of OpenAI, in which Amazon holds a major equity stake. The move ma…
Cory Doctorow argued on The Atlantic's podcast that AI companies have lured investors with overhyped claims and accounting gimmicks, predicting the resulting bubble will burst with economic fallout rivaling the pandemic …
Instacart's Caper Carts, equipped with cameras, scales, and location tracking, are now deployed in over 100 U.S. cities across 15 states, collecting real-time shopping data and serving targeted ads from brands like Gener…
IBM CHRO Nickle LaMoreaux said AI will eliminate relatively few jobs overall, as productivity gains will create new roles that don't yet exist. She advised workers to focus on outcomes and AI application skills rather th…
A researcher mapping the AI safety ecosystem for MATS Research discovered unexpected organizations, including the Human Line Project, which collects stories of AI psychosis, and Impact Academy, which helps professionals …
Hunter Biden challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a cage match anywhere except the White House lawn, criticizing the UFC Freedom 250 event held there as an inappropriate use of a sacred public space. Biden made the challenge t…
AI tools are making bad engineers faster without improving their judgment, according to a developer who argues that AI amplifies existing behaviors rather than changing them. The author observes that AI agents replicate …
Coefficient has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for global health and wellbeing projects that account for the potential impacts of transformative AI, funding research, policy development, and implementation to impro…
Confidential Containers, a CNCF Sandbox Project, provides open-source, vendor-neutral technology for protecting sensitive AI models, regulated data, and supply chains using hardware-based confidential computing. The proj…