The Final Shift

The Guardian Technology

Bill Gates calls for ‘human reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover

In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology’s impact Business live – latest updates Bill Gates has called for “human reserved” jobs in certa…

Aug 26, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The…

Aug 26, 2026

Semafor Technology

'This is crazy. This is insane': Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI and jobs

The Microsoft founder says human-only jobs and token taxes will be required at “a unique moment in evolutionary history.”

Aug 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.

Aug 26, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues

In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."

Aug 26, 2026

The Register

Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action

Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud

Aug 25, 2026

Semafor Technology

Anticipated release of China's Z.ai model sparks cybersecurity fears

Due to become available on Friday, the open-source model is reigniting debates over whether advanced technologies should be publicly accessible.

Aug 25, 2026

The Register

Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you

Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

Aug 25, 2026

The Register

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters

State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

Aug 25, 2026

Ars Technica

Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

Aug 25, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossi…

Aug 25, 2026

Rest of World

America’s immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders

Visa restrictions are deterring international AI talent from building companies in the U.S., giving other nations including China an opportunity to catch up.

Aug 25, 2026

The Register

SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year

And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt

Aug 25, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond In a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a da…

Aug 25, 2026

The Register

IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently

Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere

Aug 25, 2026

The Register

Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds

Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services

Aug 25, 2026

Ars Technica

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.

Aug 24, 2026

Ars Technica

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households.

Aug 24, 2026

The Guardian Technology

UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites

London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters …

Aug 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs.

Aug 24, 2026

Ars Technica

Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Aug 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new inves…

Aug 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

Aug 24, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Albanese seeks to quell datacentre disquiet as climate expert warns ‘we’ve got one shot to get the rules right’

Prime minister will use national cabinet meeting to assuage premiers over new AI law as Aemo forecasts seven-fold rise in datacentre power use Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Ge…

Aug 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sa…

Aug 24, 2026

The Register

AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows

Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia’s GPUs in the datacenter

Aug 24, 2026

Rest of World

The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own

Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.

Aug 24, 2026

Wired

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

Aug 24, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fl…

Aug 24, 2026

Politico Technology

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment

Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.

Aug 24, 2026

Semafor Technology

New York Times tests out AI-generated search summaries

In recent weeks, the paper has quietly rolled out a new AI-powered search page for a small subset of visitors.

Aug 23, 2026

Semafor Technology

Nvidia says it’s raising some prices more than 15%

Nvidia warned of higher prices for servers containing its AI chips as soaring memory costs strain the AI buildout.

Aug 23, 2026

Simon Willison

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Aug 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

Aug 23, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks

Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’ A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, p…

Aug 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

Aug 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Aug 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially…

Aug 22, 2026

The Register

If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will

Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst

Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production Hollywood creatives are taking gig wor…

Aug 22, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimistic Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within…

Aug 22, 2026

Wired

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.

Aug 21, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Aug 21, 2026