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Ajeya Cotra announced her departure from Open Philanthropy after nearly nine years, describing a decade-long pattern of grand visions followed by disillusionment and self-criticism. Despite feeling she never built anythi…
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) is investing $2.4 billion alongside EQT and its EdgeConneX data-center platform to build AI infrastructure, increasing its exposure to a sector with durable long-ter…
A commentator argues that artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires non-linear, relational dynamics beyond reductionist frameworks, suggesting that language weights in AI models encode hidden patterns that could ena…
Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, and revealed plans to develop its own drugs targeting neglected diseases, marking one of the most direct attempts by a major AI company to enter drug de…
Elena Verna calls out AI confidence theater in the 551st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, urging teams to demonstrate real workflows. The newsletter also features advice from Teresa Torres and Petra Will…
A new position paper on using formal methods for AI security focuses on model weight confidentiality and integrity through infrastructure hardening, with a minimal and uncontroversial approach. The UK's Advanced Research…
A randomized field experiment found Google's AI Overviews cause a 39.8% drop in organic clicks, but the lost clicks showed no difference in bounce rates, dwell time, or return-to-search behavior, contradicting Google's c…
Former MIT AI Lab researcher Richard Stallman convinced the author that open source software accelerates progress, a lesson now threatened as AI companies close their most advanced models. The author warns that locking A…
Midjourney released a behind-the-scenes video of its full-body ultrasound scanner, showing the machine's hardware assembly but not providing clinical validation data. CEO David Holz said the company's lack of investors a…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all the lobsters died be…
SpaceX's IPO on June 12 became the highest-valued in history, raising over $75 billion and valuing the company at $2 trillion. The public offering, which includes Elon Musk's AI venture xAI, saw shares surge 19% on the f…
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion and assigning 6,000 employees to a new venture, Microsoft Frontier Company, focused on owning and implementing AI solutions rather than selling them.
Midjourney released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, but the tour offered little evidence to support the company's claims of transforming medicine. The video, hosted by a tech YouTuber who i…
Bridgewater Associates and Thinking Machines Lab fine-tuned a Qwen3-235B model for financial tasks, achieving 84.7% accuracy and outperforming GPT, Claude, and Gemini at roughly one-fourteenth the cost. The results have …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal town hall that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, and that a corporate restructuring around AI agents has not gone smoothly. Despite massi…
A new case study on the Swiss watch industry's Quartz Crisis reveals that the mainstream narrative of technological disruption is incorrect, as the crisis was actually caused by dueling competitive advantages and broken …
Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false rea…
InfoQ released a free eMag titled 'Agentic AI Architecture' that explores how AI is reshaping software architecture, drawing parallels to the microservices revolution. The publication features articles from industry expe…
GMKtec launched the EVO-X3 AI Workstation, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, targeting developers and AI professionals for local AI workloads. The compact desktop is now available globally, with reservation…
China's quantitative fund industry ended 2025 managing 3.22 trillion yuan ($474 billion), rebounding from a 2024 low after regulators cracked down on high-frequency trading. Over 60% of quant funds now use AI or machine …