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“It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone”

Observers scrutinize Meta founder’s argument about AI’s potential as an equalizer and enabler.

Aug 20, 2026

The Register

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first

Aug 20, 2026

The Register

IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling

Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside

Aug 20, 2026

The Register

AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy

House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago

Aug 19, 2026

The Register

'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers

'It is an active threat'

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

Aug 19, 2026

Semafor Technology

Republicans scramble to remake their stance on data centers

The industry “could use a little public relations help,” President Donald Trump acknowledged. But his party is moving with the tide.

Aug 19, 2026

The Register

Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown

And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal

Aug 19, 2026

Wired

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

Aug 19, 2026

Semafor Technology

AI startup produces fully AI-generated feature-length film

Higgsfield AI produced ‘The Cully Hill Boys’ with a $2 million budget, half of which went to AI tokens.

Aug 19, 2026

Semafor Technology

Momentum builds for Chinese models

Several American AI startups have recently said they have used Chinese AI models in their workflows.

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenA…

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched fas…

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products.…

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers

TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.

Aug 19, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits

A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fire For the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like …

Aug 19, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.

Aug 19, 2026

The Register

Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues

It seems like Nvidia’s not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon

Aug 19, 2026

The Register

Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance

Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack

Aug 19, 2026

The Register

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive

Aug 18, 2026

Semafor Technology

China's ‘physical AI’ takes center stage

The World Robot Conference kicks off in Beijing on Wednesday coinciding with humanoid maker Unitree going public in Shanghai.

Aug 18, 2026

Simon Willison

Mojo🔥 is now open source

Aug 18, 2026

The Guardian Technology

OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent

Amid race with Anthropic, firm plans to overhaul research and training and require more safety parameters after hack OpenAI on ⁠Tuesday said it had slowed down the ⁠pace of ⁠its ​AI development while …

Aug 18, 2026

Wired

OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue

The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.

Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

Aug 18, 2026

404 Media

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.

Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

Aug 18, 2026

Ars Technica

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

Aug 18, 2026

MIT Technology Review

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “Ther…

Aug 18, 2026

MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimiz…

Aug 18, 2026

The Register

AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find

Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data

Aug 18, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

Aug 17, 2026

Semafor Technology

Nvidia to provide up to $105 billion backstop for OpenAI data center

Nvidia reached a deal on Monday to provide up to $105 billion to backstop a new OpenAI data center in Ohio, as Big Tech ramped up its debt-fueled AI splurge.

Aug 17, 2026

The Register

Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks

Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit

Aug 17, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

Aug 17, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Aug 17, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Aug 17, 2026

404 Media

The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality (With Hany Farid)

The past, present, and future of deepfakes, as seen by the world’s leading expert on synthetic media.

Aug 17, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms

The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in…

Aug 17, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet

Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as …

Aug 17, 2026

Rest of World

Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded

Washington’s limits on foreign parts promises a supply chain revolution — but Silicon Valley founders say domestic alternatives don’t exist yet.

Aug 17, 2026

Politico Technology

AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

The Office of Legislative Counsel is facing a barrage of new AI-generated bills, many of which are riddled with errors.

Aug 17, 2026

Semafor Technology

OpenAI funds new think tank projects

Recipients include US-based organizations across the political spectrum, as well as organizations in Europe, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea.

Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation The chips are quite small and some can…

Aug 17, 2026