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The Final Shift

Daily Reports on Artificial Intelligence · Data Centers · Regulation

Lead Story · The Guardian Technology

Tech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously | Gaby Hinsliff

AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late Another day, another horseman of the apocalypse galloping over the horizon. Lately we have heard from so many AI doomers – tech whistleblowers popping up to warn that their work is probably going to kill us – that we’re becoming almost blase about it. Humanity wiped out within a decade? Well, only if another world war or the climate crisis doesn’t get us first. Since i

Sep 11, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the f

Sep 10, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of pr

Sep 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI sys

Sep 9, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own t

Sep 9, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still t

Sep 8, 2026