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Lead Story · MIT Technology Review
Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…
Sep 8, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only …
Sep 8, 2026
The Guardian Technology
The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously ha…
Sep 8, 2026
The Register
New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget
Sep 8, 2026
The Register
Resistance is futile
Sep 8, 2026
Semafor Technology
The latest US employment figures have failed to show an AI-driven surge in job losses, suggesting theories of a “jobpocalypse” are premature.
Sep 7, 2026
Semafor Technology
An estimated 12.7 million graduates will join the workforce this year, the largest cohort yet, far outpacing demand.
Sep 7, 2026
The Register
MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise
Sep 7, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forc…
Sep 7, 2026
Semafor Technology
DataVolt is aiming to slash development times for its $1 billion data center as it looks to make Saudi a global AI hub.
Sep 7, 2026
Ars Technica
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Sep 7, 2026
The Register
This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development
Sep 7, 2026
The Register
PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more!
Sep 7, 2026
Simon Willison
Sep 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
Sep 5, 2026
The Guardian Technology
A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no…
Sep 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
Sep 4, 2026
Ars Technica
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Sep 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
Sep 4, 2026
The Register
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
Sep 4, 2026
The Register
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
Sep 4, 2026
Semafor Technology
The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive.
Sep 4, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolv…
Sep 4, 2026
Simon Willison
Sep 4, 2026
Ars Technica
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
Sep 4, 2026
Ars Technica
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
Sep 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Sep 4, 2026
The Register
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
Sep 4, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketp…
Sep 4, 2026
Semafor Technology
Existing frontier AI models use “chain of thought” reasoning: They write ideas down, in English, in a “scratchpad” to keep track. CoT boosts “interpretability”.
Sep 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Sep 4, 2026
The Register
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
Sep 3, 2026
Politico Technology
The Vermont senator's proposal to ban artificial "superintelligence" comes on the heels of his push for a nationwide data center moratorium — and a series of troubling AI cyberattacks.
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
Sep 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new e…
Sep 3, 2026
Ars Technica
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
Sep 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chips Nvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13bn, betting that…
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us. We are sharing with them our deepest secrets, trusting them with our wellbeing and acting on their advice. A…
Sep 3, 2026
Ars Technica
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, o…
Sep 3, 2026
Semafor Technology
The kingdom’s AI champion is also “hardening” data center defenses as the Iran war threatens infrastructure.
Sep 3, 2026
Semafor Technology
Information used by AI to make a vaccine can also “create a bioweapon,” one Google DeepMind researcher told the FT.
Sep 3, 2026
Rest of World
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
Sep 3, 2026