AI Tech Culture Cheyenne suspends datacenter wastewater after rare bacterium traced to Meta's AI site Another data center water scare gives AI opponents more ammunition By Rob Thubron, July 8, 2026, 8:24 AM 17 comments
Industry AI Samsung will earn more profit in 2026 than it did over the previous 40 years combined thanks to the AI boom Samsung is maximizing profit in the AI era By Shawn Knight, July 6, 2026, 10:48 AM 16 comments
Mobile AI SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone" AI device resembles a slim smartphone powered by a Snapdragon processor By Skye Jacobs, July 4, 2026, 10:35 AM 18 comments
Software AI Meta's Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge A TikTok-style app for AI-generated mini games By Kishalaya Kundu, July 4, 2026, 9:08 AM
Software AI A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents Project Aion imagines a lightweight, web-based Windows shell where Copilot replaces the Start Menu and Taskbar By Alfonso Maruccia, July 2, 2026, 8:17 PM 17 comments
Security AI A new attack uses a BioShock-style puzzle to convince AI browsers they're not in the real world Researchers found a way to trick AI browsers into "forgetting" safety rules By Alfonso Maruccia, July 2, 2026, 2:02 PM
AI Industry OpenAI may give the US government a 5% stake, following Trump's Intel playbook Altman frames it as a national investment in AI, not just a regulatory truce By Skye Jacobs, July 2, 2026, 1:28 PM 13 comments
Software AI Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features TinyRetroPad is a super-lean version of Notepad By Alfonso Maruccia, July 2, 2026, 9:23 AM 9 comments
Google AI Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast, low-cost AI image generation It creates 1K images in about four seconds and costs about $0.034 per image By Skye Jacobs, July 1, 2026, 12:46 PM
AI Security Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown ends with tougher safeguards and federal approval The company says new safeguards block nearly all known exploits By Skye Jacobs, July 1, 2026, 7:03 AM
AI Industry More companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI after automation fails to deliver Ford, IBM, and Commonwealth Bank are among the firms discovering that AI cannot always replace human By Rob Thubron, July 1, 2026, 6:15 AM 10 comments
Industry AI Fox apologizes after Mr. Wonderful accuses data center opponents of China ties A not-so-wonderful apology By Rob Thubron, June 30, 2026, 10:10 AM
Software AI A startup taught humanoid robots to retrieve packages, climb stairs, and unpack boxes – no human steering needed The robot isn't the breakthrough, the AI deciding what it does next is By Skye Jacobs, June 30, 2026, 6:15 AM
The Web Electronics A hollow-core fiber cable just carried 51.3 Tb/s across 200 km China's YOFC sets a new long-haul fiber record – no signal boosters required By Julio Franco, June 29, 2026, 1:26 PM 9 comments
AI Google Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off Google had to cut Meta off from Gemini because Meta was using too much of it By Rob Thubron, June 29, 2026, 11:24 AM 7 comments
AI Hardware South Korea is betting $880 billion that the next AI race will be won in hardware, not software Samsung, SK Hynix, and the government are treating AI infrastructure as a matter of national survival By Skye Jacobs, June 29, 2026, 9:56 AM 11 comments
Software Tech Culture Meet "loop engineering": The next evolution in AI coding isn't a better prompt, it's a system that prompts itself "I don't write the prompt anymore – Claude writes the prompt," says Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code By Skye Jacobs, June 29, 2026, 8:33 AM 10 comments
AI Industry Big Tech's $8 trillion AI bet is making consoles, cars, and electricity more expensive for everyone else The cost of artificial intelligence is now showing up in the inflation data By Skye Jacobs, June 28, 2026, 6:16 AM 27 comments
AI Security OpenAI's GPT-5.6 gets staggered release after Trump administration cites national security concerns GPT-5.6 Terra promises GPT-5.5 performance at half the cost, but access requires government approval By Kishalaya Kundu, June 27, 2026, 11:26 AM 7 comments
Industry AI HPE is quietly pivoting from servers to networking, and Cisco should be paying attention HPE focuses on the network side of agentic AI By Bob O'Donnell, June 26, 2026, 10:02 AM
AI Car Tech Ford learned the hard way that AI can't replace experienced engineers Ford's AI rollout backfired, so it hired back 350 engineers to fix it By Skye Jacobs, June 26, 2026, 8:08 AM 21 comments
AI The Web Anthropic accuses China's Alibaba of stealing Claude's AI capabilities The Chinese firm reportedly used a "distillation attack" to steal Claude's coding skills via 25,000 fake accounts By Kishalaya Kundu, June 25, 2026, 12:31 PM 47 comments
AI Industry Micron CEO expects memory shortages to stretch beyond 2027 as AI spending surges AI demand is overwhelming DRAM and NAND supply By Skye Jacobs, June 25, 2026, 11:49 AM 20 comments
Industry AI Qualcomm unveils sweeping AI infrastructure strategy to take on Nvidia in the data center Qualcomm's bold AI gamble goes far beyond phones By Bob O'Donnell, June 25, 2026, 11:23 AM 10 comments
AI Industry White House warms to Anthropic after replacing "weirdo" Dario Amodei in talks The CEO reportedly clashed with officials over his communication style, leaving Anthropic to send different people into the room By Rob Thubron, June 25, 2026, 8:41 AM 28 comments