DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
08/08/2026 11:05 – AI
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti,…
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
07/08/2026 17:36 – AI
OpenAI’s upcoming smart speaker will probably cost over $300, “people familiar with the matter” have told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The generative AI company has “discussed”…
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
07/08/2026 13:49 – AI
This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit…
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
07/08/2026 13:29 – AI
ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic’s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap…
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
06/08/2026 20:17 – AI
The Internet is awash in AI content, and it's not always easy to tell it apart from genuine human creations. While images and videos are…
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
06/08/2026 20:03 – AI
Anthropic is hiring a "custom silicon team" to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed. Yesterday, Business Insider noticed a…
Large genome models used to design new viruses
06/08/2026 19:04 – AI
A lot of the AI work in biology has been focused on designing proteins. That's partly because proteins do most of the business of life,…
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
06/08/2026 16:15 – AI
Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, which it first developed as an internal workspace for employees to build apps using AI agents—including people who…
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
06/08/2026 11:00 – AI
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. But when it comes to AI slop and hateful content threatening the safety and value of social…
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
05/08/2026 20:47 – AI
Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to…
Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
05/08/2026 20:01 – AI
Old.reddit.com’s days appear to be numbered. Reddit has strayed from saying that it will shutter the website, which many long-time Redditors prefer for its layout,…
Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
05/08/2026 19:51 – AI
YouTube currently requires that content creators let viewers know "when they use AI to meaningfully alter or generate photorealistic content." The policy draws some strange…
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
05/08/2026 15:30 – AI
Google Assistant's days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In…
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
05/08/2026 13:59 – AI
SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked…
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
04/08/2026 20:34 – AI
Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor…
