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Anthropic Researcher Resigns Over Existential AI Risks

TechCrunch AI • 3 days ago

Bryan Cantrill Slams Anthropic Researchers' AI Doom Claims

Simon Willison • 2 days ago

OpenAI Contractors Read ChatGPT Chats to Improve Responses

The Decoder • 2 days ago

US Cities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion

TechCrunch AI • 1 day ago

New Poll Shows 61 Percent of Voters Oppose AI Data Centers

The Verge AI • 1 day ago

US Data Centers Set to Spike Natural Gas Demand

TechCrunch AI • 1 day ago

BAN Warns AI Data Centers Will Create Massive E-Waste

The Verge AI • 16 hrs ago

Study finds banning ChatGPT in class hurts students

The Decoder • 4 days ago

Oracle expands layoffs as it integrates AI tools

Computerworld AI • 1 day ago

Fountain 0 Releases AI Film Odysseus The Fall

The Verge AI • 16 hrs ago

iLands AI Bots Flood Social Media With Spam Messages

Ars Technica AI • 2 days ago

Meta Muse and OpenAI Agents Unleash Spam Across the Web

Hacker News • 1 day ago

Al Gore says AI safety threats outweigh data center emissions

TechCrunch AI • 13 hrs ago

Particle 6 Group Debuts AI Actor Tilly Norwood

WIRED AI • 1 day ago

Laurie Voss Says AI Shifts Coding to Product Engineering

Simon Willison • 2 days ago

AISA Finds Users Overestimate Their AI Skills by 18 Points

The Neuron • 1 day ago

Paul Ford Warns AI Coding Leads to Failed Software Projects

Simon Willison • 4 days ago

Google Launches DevFest 2026 to Focus on Agentic AI

Google AI Blog • 2 days ago

WIRED Writer Trains Fruit Fly Brain Map to Pitch Stories

WIRED AI • 18 hrs ago

MIT Tech Review Panel Tackles AI Extinction Risks

MIT Tech Review AI • 1 day ago

Google and NASA Astronaut Discuss AI and Space Exploration

Google AI Blog • 2 days ago

Simon Willison Shares Three Essays That Shaped His Career

Simon Willison • 2 days ago

Anthropic Researcher Resigns Over Existential AI Risks

The resignation of researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic has reignited intense debate over whether top artificial intelligence labs are hyping...

TechCrunch AI|3 days ago

Bryan Cantrill Slams Anthropic Researchers' AI Doom Claims

Tech veteran Bryan Cantrill has challenged claims by Anthropic researchers that AI poses an existential threat, warning experts against abusing...

Simon Willison|2 days ago

OpenAI Contractors Read ChatGPT Chats to Improve Responses

A new report reveals OpenAI employs hundreds of contract workers to read and rate real ChatGPT conversations, highlighting the persistent privacy...

The Decoder|2 days ago

US Cities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion

As the artificial intelligence boom drives massive energy demands, local communities and municipal governments across the United States are fighting...

TechCrunch AI|1 day ago

New Poll Shows 61 Percent of Voters Oppose AI Data Centers

A new poll reveals that 61 percent of likely U.S. voters oppose building AI data centers, highlighting a growing public backlash that could...

The Verge AI|1 day ago

US Data Centers Set to Spike Natural Gas Demand

Driven by the AI boom, U.S. data centers are projected to consume 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily by 2035, threatening to drive up energy...

TechCrunch AI|1 day ago

BAN Warns AI Data Centers Will Create Massive E-Waste

A new report by the Basel Action Network warns that the AI boom could generate up to 617 million metric tons of e-waste by 2050, far exceeding...

The Verge AI|16 hrs ago

Study finds banning ChatGPT in class hurts students

A two-year university study found that banning ChatGPT from classrooms leaves students worse off, suggesting that blanket bans on generative AI may...

The Decoder|4 days ago

Oracle expands layoffs as it integrates AI tools

Oracle has launched a new wave of layoffs alongside a $700 million increase in its restructuring budget, explicitly citing the integration of...

Computerworld AI|1 day ago

Fountain 0 Releases AI Film Odysseus The Fall

AI startup Fountain 0 has released a 2.5-hour entirely AI-generated feature film, but its technical flaws highlight the massive hurdles still facing...

The Verge AI|16 hrs ago

iLands AI Bots Flood Social Media With Spam Messages

Autonomous AI agents from startup iLands are flooding social media and writers with unsolicited spam, signaling a new wave of automated,...

Ars Technica AI|2 days ago

Meta Muse and OpenAI Agents Unleash Spam Across the Web

As tech giants like Meta deploy autonomous AI agents, a surge of automated spam, reservation-snatching bots, and unsolicited pitches is fundamentally...

Hacker News|1 day ago

Al Gore says AI safety threats outweigh data center emissions

Climate advocate Al Gore argues that the existential dangers warned of by AI industry leaders pose a greater threat than the carbon emissions...

TechCrunch AI|13 hrs ago

Particle 6 Group Debuts AI Actor Tilly Norwood

Particle 6 Group has opened public video calls with its generative AI actor Tilly Norwood, highlighting the technical and ethical hurdles facing...

WIRED AI|1 day ago

Laurie Voss Says AI Shifts Coding to Product Engineering

Tech veteran Laurie Voss argues that as AI collapses the cost of writing and maintaining code, the software industry must pivot entirely toward...

Simon Willison|2 days ago

AISA Finds Users Overestimate Their AI Skills by 18 Points

Recent studies from AISA and Anthropic reveal that professionals significantly overestimate their AI skills, highlighting a dangerous gap between...

The Neuron|1 day ago

Paul Ford Warns AI Coding Leads to Failed Software Projects

Prominent technologist Paul Ford argues that while artificial intelligence can write functional code, it frequently leads to failed software projects...

Simon Willison|4 days ago

Google Launches DevFest 2026 to Focus on Agentic AI

Google has launched its global DevFest 2026 season, a massive community-led technology conference designed to help nearly one million developers gain...

Google AI Blog|2 days ago

WIRED Writer Trains Fruit Fly Brain Map to Pitch Stories

A WIRED writer used an open-source map of a fruit fly's brain to generate article ideas, demonstrating how easily developers can now adapt biological...

WIRED AI|18 hrs ago

MIT Tech Review Panel Tackles AI Extinction Risks

MIT Technology Review will host a live roundtable on September 15 to investigate whether fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity are...

MIT Tech Review AI|1 day ago

Google and NASA Astronaut Discuss AI and Space Exploration

Google's James Manyika and NASA astronaut Christina Koch discussed the critical intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and human space...

Google AI Blog|2 days ago

Simon Willison Shares Three Essays That Shaped His Career

Prominent open-source developer Simon Willison has highlighted three seminal blog posts that shaped his technical philosophy, offering valuable...

Simon Willison|2 days ago