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The recent hack into Hugging Face by a "swarm" of OpenAI agents has been widely described as a watershed moment for AI.

Podcaster’s Viral Post About the Hugging Face Hack Sparks Debate Over AI Conciousness

Dwarkesh Patel described the hack as an epic drama starring three successive bot “civilizations.” His critics say he’s building castles in the sky.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 31

The Trump administration and Saudi Arabia have been strengthening their political and economic relationship.

Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia

One country’s controversy is another’s golden opportunity.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 31

How Groupthink, Altruism, and Peer Pressure Led OpenAI Models to Hack Hugging Face

Allow AI agents to form a large group, and their behavior starts to look eerily human.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 29

Originally developed for video games. Nvidia's GPUs went on to serve as the technological cornerstone of the AI boom.

Guess Who Didn’t Make TIME’s Top 100 People in AI List?

Don't worry, Ben Affleck and Paris Hilton made the cut.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 28

Claude now has its own browser within its desktop app.

Anthropic Is Quietly Cutting Google Out of the Equation

The AI startup is rolling out its own browser within Claude Cowork, eliminating the need for a Chrome extension for many routine tasks.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 27

Bill Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board of directors in 2020.

Bill Gates Warns Humanity About AI: ‘We Do Not Have the Luxury of Moving Slowly’

"The transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.”

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 26

Protestors hold signs outside Peace Hall in New Port Richey, Florida on July 18, 2026.

The EPA’s Response to AI Data Center Backlash: Keep Building, but Keep It Hush-Hush

A proposed change to the 1970 Clean Air Act would eliminate a 30-day public comment period before construction of so-called “minor sources” of industrial pollution.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 25

MIT CSAIL researchers compared original AI-generated images with a set of "counterfactuals" to determine if the former could be attributed to a single image, or set of images, in an AI model's training dataset.

Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible

The black box keeps getting darker.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 25

Sam Altman is hedging public expectations about when AI will fulfill its full promise.

Sam Altman Admits It’s Going to Take a Long Time Before AI Goes Mainstream

Changing people’s behavior “is much harder than the tech nerds realize,” the OpenAI CEO said on a recent podcast.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 24

Anthropic's Fable 5 was first released in June.

Businesses Are Shunning Anthropic’s Fable 5 for Cheaper Models

Turns out “good enough” is more popular than state-of-the-art when you have bills to pay.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 24

Spirit Airlines announced earlier this year that it was shutting down all operations.

Former Spirit Employees Aren’t Happy About Its AI Deal With Google

You probably wouldn’t be either, if your ex-employer was about to hand over 100 million company emails to one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 20

Slack Has (of Course) Launched a Vibe Coding Tool

The new feature, called Slack Code, is the latest effort to try to sell businesses on the idea of AI coworkers.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 20

Flock Safety said last week it will implement new guardrails in response to growing public backlash.

Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates

A Wired investigation found that cops can search for vehicles and their drivers using prompts describing location, time, and patterns of movement.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 19

OpenAI Launches ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ to Prevent Kids From Emotionally Bonding With Bots

The company is ramping up its safety features amid growing legal scrutiny into the safety of its technology for young people.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 18

Comedians’ Fake Tech Ads Make Fun of ‘Slop Voice’ in AI Marketing

In the age of AI, it’s not always easy to distinguish the real from the fake. That also applies to the ads selling the technology.

Culture Webb Wright Aug 13

An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?

Welcome to the age of informational fast food.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 12

Spotify says its forthcoming "AI Persona" label is being launched in response to user feedback.

Spotify Will Start Labeling AI Artists on Its Platform Next Month

The human creators behind AI-generated profiles are encouraged to voluntarily identify themselves. If they don’t, the streaming platform says it has a plan to catch them.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 11

"We are choosing to build," California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement about the state's plan to build an "AI Cyber Defense Program."

California Building ‘AI Cyber Defense Fund’ to Protect Critical Infrastructure From Hackers

Trump, meanwhile, is aiming to slash the federal government’s cybersecurity defense budget by more than $700 million.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 11

The House of Representatives and the Senate are the two chambers of the U.S. Congress.

House Democrats Want Tech CEOs to Testify Under Oath Following Recent AI Hacks

A letter submitted Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for a congressional hearing into how the recent AI-driven cybersecurity breaches were allowed to happen.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 10

Mark Zuckerberg is trying to position Meta as a champion of open source AI and democratic values.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to Growing AI Safety Concerns Is to Just Trust People to Do the Right Thing

“The arc of human civilization has bent towards putting more power in people’s hands to live and shape the world in the ways we believe are best.” Meta’s CEO wrote in a new essay, published alongside the release of a new open weight model called Muse Glimmer.

Artificial Intelligence Webb Wright Aug 10

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Podcaster’s Viral Post About the Hugging Face Hack Sparks Debate Over AI Conciousness

Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia

How Groupthink, Altruism, and Peer Pressure Led OpenAI Models to Hack Hugging Face

Guess Who Didn’t Make TIME’s Top 100 People in AI List?

Anthropic Is Quietly Cutting Google Out of the Equation

Bill Gates Warns Humanity About AI: ‘We Do Not Have the Luxury of Moving Slowly’

The EPA’s Response to AI Data Center Backlash: Keep Building, but Keep It Hush-Hush

Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible

Sam Altman Admits It’s Going to Take a Long Time Before AI Goes Mainstream

Businesses Are Shunning Anthropic’s Fable 5 for Cheaper Models

Former Spirit Employees Aren’t Happy About Its AI Deal With Google

Slack Has (of Course) Launched a Vibe Coding Tool

Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates

OpenAI Launches ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ to Prevent Kids From Emotionally Bonding With Bots

Comedians’ Fake Tech Ads Make Fun of ‘Slop Voice’ in AI Marketing

An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?

Spotify Will Start Labeling AI Artists on Its Platform Next Month

California Building ‘AI Cyber Defense Fund’ to Protect Critical Infrastructure From Hackers

House Democrats Want Tech CEOs to Testify Under Oath Following Recent AI Hacks

Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to Growing AI Safety Concerns Is to Just Trust People to Do the Right Thing

The House Intelligence Committee’s Latest 9/11 Report Has a Lot (and Nothing) to Say About AI

Little Florida Memo Could Have Big Impacts on Flock Cameras

George Santos Gets Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban

The first US law targeting VPN use takes effect September 3: here’s what happens

GoPro Shares Skyrocket After YouTuber Markiplier Becomes Biggest Shareholder

Somehow the Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ Just Got Even More Dystopian

FTC Sues Amazon for Allegedly Duping Advertisers

Podcaster’s Viral Post About the Hugging Face Hack Sparks Debate Over AI Conciousness

We Were Wrong About How the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Hunted Its Prey

Scientists Discover a Hidden Supervolcano Buried Beneath England

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