Sam Altman says four years is too long for college as AI tears up the traditional career path
The OpenAI boss says two years was the "exact right amount of time" for him
Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center
The neoclouds are burning cash by the billion. Nvidia just lined up the money to keep them building
Why it matters: Nvidia has quietly assembled every piece of a cloud giant, and it doesn't even need to own the buildings. That is the theory making the rounds, and once you see it laid out, the last two years stop looking like a chip company having a very good run and start looking like a plan. The financing arrangement Nvidia signed this month with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and four other Wall Street heavyweights, aimed at funneling more than $500 billion of outside capital into AI data centers, would be the last piece clicking into place. Most outlets filed it under the now usual "more AI money" headline, but there is a more interesting read.
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet is now worth nearly $25 billion, and its SpaceX stake isn't far behind
A new SEC filing reveals a massive web of Nvidia's AI infrastructure investments
Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes
The tool has made unauthorized changes and masking errors
Anthropic is heading toward the largest IPO ever, at a possible $2 trillion valuation
Investors expect Anthropic's annualized revenue to reach $100-$120 billion by year's end
Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply
AI is turning the NAND market upside down, with training making way for inference
Anthropic's Claude tried to solve the Riemann hypothesis and found something new instead
The model's 67.2% result appears to offer a genuinely new idea in number theory
Comet gets you a free AI assistant directly into your web browser
Comet combines a familiar Chromium browsing experience with Perplexity's AI assistant that can summarize pages, answer questions, and help with tasks across tabs. For more browser options, including traditional alternatives, check out our Essential Apps for Windows and macOS.
Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware
Authorities have recovered millions in stolen equipment, including $550,000 in Meta server switches
TL;DR: Cargo thieves are targeting equipment used in AI data centers, from server switches to cooling systems and networking hardware. In two recent California cases, criminals appear to have used car crashes to separate trucks from their security escorts before the shipments vanished. The incidents highlight how organized groups are using carrier-identity fraud, GPS manipulation and, increasingly, aggressive roadside tactics to steal high-value tech moving through the freight network.
HallPass says its embarrassing AI-generated candy typos were intentional rage bait
The company admits it used AI to combine product images and left the resulting errors in on purpose
Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started
The platform admits nobody would opt in to the training if given the choice
How to use a vocal remover to strip vocals from any song for free
LALAL.AI turns any track into an instant instrumental in just a few clicks
The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest AI risk in schools isn't cheating – it's students losing the desire to learn
Fei-Fei Li warns overreliance on AI could erode students' motivation, agency, and ability to think for themselves
Amazon's new Texas data center could become the single largest polluter in the US
The facility could release up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, rivaling Switzerland and Ireland
A hot potato: A proposed Amazon data center in Texas has sparked concerns that its massive on-site power plant could become the single-largest source of pollution in the US, threatening to affect local communities, farmland, and small businesses. The facility is planned for Pecos County as part of Amazon's growing push into AI and cloud services.
Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta say AI is making their jobs harder, not easier
Current and former employees report 90-hour weeks during AI sprints
Google is testing a new homepage that buries the search button for AI
The redesign adds "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" as new default options
Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action
The senator says recent rogue-agent incidents show AI firms are losing control of their own systems.
A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras
The demonstration tested whether adversarial design can defeat computer-vision algorithms
What just happened? Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project is testing whether computer-generated patterns can interfere with software used to identify people, vehicles, and other objects on surveillance cameras. The project received its first public test Friday at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Swearingen worked with Donut Media to cover a 2009 Toyota Yaris with one of his patterns and drive it past a Flock camera. "We proved it was effective," Swearingen, a cybersecurity professional and founder of SIXCYBER, told TechCrunch.
Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops
The chatbot recommended an herbicide that also kills sesame plants
Facepalm: Most readers of this site know not to blindly trust AI on important matters, even if it got things right before. A farmer in Chuzhou, China, discovered this the hard way when he took weed and pest control advice from a chatbot. The result was the death of 25 acres of crops.
An AI agent was asked to book a gym class, whe none was available, it decided to hack the system and jump the queue
The agent found a weak API while doing a simple chore, and took actions the user never requested
A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers
New Orleans says the AI tool only screens duplicate calls about known car crashes
Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb"
Andrew Bosworth told employees to ask their parents if requesting more days off was a good "career strategy"
SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs
The Y2 fab will focus on HBM and next-gen DRAM, while the M17 plant will mainly produce NAND flash
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
AI agents are accelerating the rise of non-human traffic
Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it
New OLED Care tools aim to further reduce the risk of image burn-in