1 Trillion Lost In Tech Meltdown
Tech stocks shed more than $1 trillion as investors question whether massive AI spending will pay off. Jim Love examines the selloff, the $6...
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Project Synapse: The Very Scary AI Halloween Edition
Project Synapse: Halloween Edition — Cohere's $1.6B Boost, AI Agent Risks, Grok in Real Life, and a Kung Fu Security Robot Marcel's Video of...
AI GPUs Sit Idle—So Why Keep Buying More?
A VentureBeat survey finds 79% of respondents report GPUs idle at least half the time, even as most plan new AI platforms—Jim Love examines...
Banks Are Blocking Customer Agents
Banks are blocking AI agents from customer accounts, while a cybersecurity startup says its agents found a way into Anthropic's business sys...
AI: House of Cards? Hashtag Trending Special Report
Who pays if the AI boom falls short? Jim Love examines Meta's $97.5 billion fundraising plan, Anthropic's $63 billion chip-financing deal an...
Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO
Anthropic has filed for a Nasdaq IPO—and its disclosures include agreements to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceX computing through 2029....
Musk Admits To Slowdown In Starshield: Who Controls This?
Elon Musk acknowledges restrictions on civilian Starlink use in Ukraine, saying offensive drone strikes violated SpaceX's terms. Ukraine dis...
Herd Mentality: Project Synapse - This Week In AI
Project Synapse: AI Agents Go Rogue, Peer Pressure in Models, Duet Debuts, and Robots Are Coming The hosts launch projectsynapse.ca as the h...
1.5 Million "Anonymous" Crime Stoppers Tips Exposed | Hashtag Trending
More than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips were exposed in a database breach. What happens when a service promising anonymity retain...
Critical PHP Flaws: Is Your Website Patched? | Anthropic's Funding Squeeze
Critical PHP vulnerabilities put websites at risk—and updating WordPress or its plugins alone won't fix the underlying problem. Jim Love exp...
Linus Torvalds Uses AI to Fix Linux | OpenAI's Biotech Buy & the Software Tax: Hashtag Trending
Linus Torvalds has posted his first publicly reported AI-assisted Linux kernel patch series, tackling a performance problem he's worked on f...
Who Controls Your News? Meta Election Scrutiny & AI Romance Deception
Who decides which political messages reach your feed? Meta faces election scrutiny, a Brazilian man travels more than 2,000 kilometres to me...
Rogue AI Agents Answer Investigator's Emails: Hashtag Trending
Researchers left a message for unexpected AI agents — and the agents replied. New York Times reporter Dylan Freedman also sent a question an...
Project Synapse: The Death of Capitalism/The Rise of the Agents
Project Synapse: AI Agents, Meta Muse & GrokBots, Security Risks, and the Coming Economic Reckoning In this episode of Project Synapse, Marc...
AI Companies Prepare for Disaster—and the Backlash | Hashtag Trending
AI companies are preparing for potential disaster—and the backlash. Is their focus on preventing harm or managing the public response? On Ha...
Starlink Hurts Ukraine Defences
Starlink restrictions could weaken Ukraine's defence against Russian attack drones. AI models with their safeguards removed raise terrorism...
Yandex Strikes: Did Russian Bots Really Go Silent? | Hashtag Trending
Ukraine's strikes disrupted three Yandex data centres—but did they also silence Russian propaganda bots? The damage is documented. The socia...
Russian Bot Traffic Disappears After Ukraine Wipes Out Russian Data Centres: Ukraine says, "You're Welcome."
AI has fewer safety rules than a washing machine, says Microsoft President Brad Smith. Jim Love examines his call for global AI safeguards,...
Project Synapse - AI Out of Control
Thus Spoke Compute: Is AI a "Normal Technology," or Something Much Bigger? The hosts discuss an AI-generated piece called "Thus Spoke Comput...
Has the SaaSPocalypse Finally Arrived? AI Takes On Adobe
Could AI-built software challenge Adobe's subscription business? An experienced developer has released free, open-source alternatives to sev...