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Peter Thiel claimed at the Aspen Ideas Festival that Anthropic would use its AI models to rig the 2028 election, calling the company 'woke liberal.' CNN reported the claim as unsupported and conspiratorial. Anthropic dec…
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…
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…
The US government has inserted itself into the distribution chain of GPT-5.6, approving access customer by customer without published criteria, public denial lists, or appeals processes. This opaque gatekeeping risks com…
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.
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 reader argues that a federal tax on the ultra-wealthy is unlikely under GOP control due to constitutional constraints, suggesting instead that higher tax rates on corporate profits and income streams should be pursued.…
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…
San José Animal Care Services faces criticism for banning volunteer photography and removing volunteer rights from its handbook without explanation, prompting calls for transparency from the community. San Jose State Uni…
VulcanForms appointed Matthew Rose as executive vice president of Mission Systems to expand its metal manufacturing services for government, defense, and national-security customers. Rose, formerly of Snowflake and Adobe…
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…
The California DMV ordered roughly 11,000 drivers to retake their written knowledge test within 30 days or risk losing their licenses, citing unspecified 'irregularities' in test results from July 2025 to April 2026. The…
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…
A Privacy Guides forum user argues that using mobile browsers instead of dedicated apps enhances privacy and security, citing concerns over data persistence and device caching in apps like Ente. The discussion highlights…
The Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, after at least 90 colonial declarations urged secessi…