Opinion | The Real AI Fear: Lawyers
Liability is much more effective than regulation at pushing companies to be safe.
Month: September 2026
Opinion | When AI Tells a Story About Your Health, Is It True?
A well-designed system could help us understand better what we don’t know as well as what we do.
Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Set for White House Dinner
Anthropic and the administration have clashed over the startup’s safety concerns and calls for greater oversight of American AI companies.
Opinion | The U.S. Tariff Attack on U.S. Biotech
New Trump border taxes arrive Tuesday and are a gift to Xi Jinping.
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10,000 if a Data Center Gets Built
Many Pennsylvania residents in Hazle Township are pushing back against the data center, despite the lure of the cash payout.
This Startup Is Using AI to Fight Off a Future AI Pandemic
Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them.
How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a…
Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance
The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away,…
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it’s yet another concerning example of AI…
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song” device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40…