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. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…
Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more unce…
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 optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. …
Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals …
Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit …
Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own…
A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. I…
Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in…
Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application you…
A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. Th…