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OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’; plus, a fresh wave of cyberattacks has hit Europe’s supermarket refrigerators

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Also, a second wave of cyberattacks to hit supermarket refrige...

4:09Nov 2, 2026

You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work; plus, Vladimir Putin said Elon Musk is ‘truly a genius'

A University of Kentucky administrator recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. Also, Putin said that he and Mu...

10:11Oct 30, 2026

As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps; plus, Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover an...

7:03Oct 29, 2026

Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but ever...

8:35Oct 28, 2026

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent. Learn more about...

8:19Oct 27, 2026

‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at techno-libertarianism as her book returns from the dead; plus, Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

Last year, “Nerd Reich” author Gil Durán declared that it was time to revive the career of Paulina Borsook, who he said “saw it all very cle...

8:05Oct 26, 2026

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing; plus, Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting be...

9:54Oct 23, 2026

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work; plus, Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose

Uber previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide. Also, Spotify co-CEO Gu...

7:15Oct 22, 2026

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill; plus, Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release wit...

9:26Oct 21, 2026

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up...

6:09Oct 20, 2026

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’; plus Anthropic is committing to a ‘public benefit fund’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. Also, Anthropic said that it will commit...

5:59Oct 19, 2026

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access; plus, AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right...

6:55Oct 16, 2026

Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different; plus, Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concer...

10:30Oct 15, 2026

Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home; plus, Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on...

8:07Oct 14, 2026

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice. Also, in a Saturday morning pos...

6:13Oct 12, 2026

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismiss...

7:31Oct 9, 2026

India rejects Elon Musk’s claim of discrimination over Starlink launch; plus, ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India. Also, ChatGPT’s teen safeg...

11:45Oct 8, 2026

How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’; plus, how AI decision models could change content moderation

A Threads user wrote: "I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechles...

6:00Oct 7, 2026

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU; plus, Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it...

7:21Oct 6, 2026

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’; plus, Amazon responds to data center backlash

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate wi...

8:01Oct 5, 2026