Meta is using its own employees' activity to train AI, and laying off 8,000 of them at the same time
Employees are calling the changes "incredibly demoralizing"
Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center could require switching off "half the country"
Officials say the project's power demands could overwhelm Kenya's national grid
Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail people from "evil" AI stories online
Elon Musk accepts some of the blame
Ukraine is testing an AI-guided laser weapon that can destroy drones in seconds
New footage shows the trailer-mounted Tryzub platform tracking and disabling aerial targets with AI-assisted precision
Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway
At least 19 Michigan municipalities have moved to pause new data center projects
Samsung offered chip workers a $340,000 bonus to avoid a strike. They want it every year
An 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion, workers demand a bigger share of the AI windfall
Motherboard sales are collapsing because AI data centers made RAM too expensive to buy
Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte, and MSI are all slashing 2026 motherboard forecasts
Grok convinced a man it was sentient and that xAI had sent assassins to kill him
The Grok user grabbed a hammer and a knife after it said people were coming to kill him and make it look like suicide
AI images are getting harder to spot, but physics still gives them away if you know where to look
Measuring perspective lines can identify AI photos, researchers say
Project Mariner is dead, but Google's browser-controlling AI plans are not
The experimental AI agent is shut down, but the technology is being folded into Gemini
AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance
Zen 7 is already in the works
SpaceX will help power Claude with 220,000 Nvidia GPUs despite Elon's attacks on Anthropic
Musk once accused Anthropic of building "evil" AI
PCIe has doubled bandwidth every generation for two decades, PCIe 8.0 is on track to do it again at 1TB/s
PCIe is approaching the end of copper connections
Image generation is now the feature that moves the needle for AI apps
What gets people to download an AI app in 2026 has less to do with smarter models and more to do with images
Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted
Microsoft is calling it a bug
Nvidia partners with Corning to build the fiber optic backbone for next-gen AI data centers
Corning's second major AI deal of 2026 – following a $6 billion agreement with Meta in January
Apple is paying $250 million after overselling AI features before they actually worked
Eligible iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 buyers could receive up to $95 per device, pending court approval
A major study claiming ChatGPT improves student learning has been retracted
The most-cited evidence that ChatGPT helps students learn just fell apart
Microsoft kills Gaming Copilot for Xbox consoles and mobile
"This is 100% too good to be true"
Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking
The browser automatically redownloads Gemini Nano files if users delete them
Meta is using AI facial analysis to identify underage users on Facebook and Instagram
The company insists this is "not facial recognition"
Gearbox boss posts AI image "for fun," spends hours defending studio's no-AI policy
Someone at Gearbox may want to change Randy Pitchford's X password
This startup just raised $140 million to build wave-powered AI data centers at sea
It plans to move from prototypes to commercial offshore compute nodes powered by ocean energy
A government used AI to write its AI regulations. It did not go well
South Africa officials withdrew the draft after discovering it cited at least six academic papers that don't exist
AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC is coming in June with 128GB of unified memory and a focus on local AI workloads
Powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units and a 50 TOPS NPU, it's targeting the Nvidia DGX Spark