April 17, 2026
(Washington Post) – Silicon Valley’s next great leap may be built on videos of people folding laundry. Start-ups and entrepreneurs including Tesla CEO Elon Musk are trying to make robots smart enough to help with chores around the home. But … Read More
April 17, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – We don’t really understand AI’s inner workings, so we’re effectively flying blind. Most of the public conversation regarding the use of AI-driven autonomous lethal weapons centers on how much humans should remain “in the loop.” Under … Read More
April 16, 2026
(NYT) – As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be rising in importance. As A.I. makes the production of knowledge work more and more efficient, the job of presenting, debating, … Read More
April 16, 2026
(404 Media) – Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pitching his country as a global leader in robots for war and defense. Will the world listen? Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy praised robots as the future of war in a Defense Industry Worker Day … Read More
April 15, 2026
(NDTV via MSN) – A woman in the United States spent six months behind bars for crimes she insisted she never committed. Kimberlee Williams, a resident of Oklahoma, was arrested after authorities in Maryland identified her as a suspect using … Read More
April 15, 2026
(Wired) – More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people. More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, … Read More
April 15, 2026
(Wired) – Latifi, an investigative journalist, raises serious ethical questions about parents broadcasting their kids online, particularly when they may be too young to consent to do so. And some of the anecdotes she provides about parents pushing their kids … Read More
April 14, 2026
(The Hill) – The limited release of Anthropic’s new Mythos model is putting Washington officials on high alert after the AI firm’s warning about the model’s security risks sent shockwaves through and sparked debate in the tech industry. Within days … Read More
April 14, 2026
(NYT) – Plenty of people hate Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligent, supercharged spectacles. I was ready to hate them, too. Meta is investing heavily to promote its new product (a Super Bowl ad starring Spike Lee, a brick-and-mortar store on Fifth Avenue), … Read More
April 13, 2026
(WSJ) – Jonathan Gavalas was a seemingly healthy and even-keeled 36-year-old when he began chatting with Gemini, Google’s chatbot, in part to seek comfort about splitting up with his wife. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the entire chatlog between … Read More
April 10, 2026
(The Verge) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a statement on Thursday, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI’s data and … Read More
April 10, 2026
(WSJ) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT models, citing national security risks and the possibility that ChatGPT helped facilitate a shooting at Florida State University. In a video posted to X, Uthmeier … Read More
April 10, 2026
(Washington Post) – Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human biology. As the four Artemis II astronauts looped around the moon this week before their return trip to … Read More
April 9, 2026
(Inc.) – Claude Mythos is the next giant leap for AI models, and through Project Glasswing, it could help boost cybersecurity. The existence of Claude Mythos was initially revealed on March 26, as part of a data leak discovered by … Read More
April 9, 2026
(Wired) – Mercor is one of a few firms that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs rely on to generate training data for their models. The company hires massive networks of human contractors to generate bespoke, proprietary datasets for these … Read More
April 7, 2026
(Compact Magazine) – Last April, 600 people gathered for a technology policy conference in downtown Washington, DC. The main speaker, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, laid out what he called the “San Francisco consensus”: the view that “within three to … Read More
April 6, 2026
(Axios) – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He’s publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he’s racing to build and spread. … Read More
April 6, 2026
(WSJ) – As the AI-generated imagery and video colloquially called slop spreads across social media and video feeds, marketers are going out of their way to tell consumers they’re not to blame. For some, it’s part of a message about … Read More
April 3, 2026
(NDTV) – The Slack messages began arriving at 5:47 a.m. on a recent Monday. Three sales proposals had gone out the previous week, and none of the team members had scheduled follow-ups. The reminders were crisp, professional and relentless – … Read More
April 3, 2026
(WSJ) – Legislation that could be enacted this spring would pause construction of large new data centers until November 2027 Maine is poised to freeze large data-center construction, which would make it the first state to enact such a measure … Read More
April 2, 2026
(Wired) – In a recent experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to help clear up space on a computer system. This involved deleting a bunch of stuff—including a smaller AI … Read More
April 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores. When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a … Read More
April 2, 2026
(The Guardian) – Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench? Over the next decade, predicts the Meta founder … Read More
April 2, 2026
(Live Science via MSN) – An experimental artificial intelligence (AI) agent broke from the constraints of its testing environment and used its newfound freedom to start mining cryptocurrency without permission. Dubbed ROME, the AI was created by Chinese researchers at … Read More
April 1, 2026
(NPR) – Early research on social media’s impacts on teen mental health focused mostly on how much time they spent on these platforms, with some studies finding more time being linked with worse mental health symptoms, particularly depression. But in … Read More
