The standard way to keep an AI agent in line is to have a second AI read over its shoulder. It’s been the default approach,…
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President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation's highest science prizes |
In Brief Posted: 3:33 PM PDT · October 8, 2026 On Thursday, at the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit, President Trump awarded Elon Musk,…
Elon Musk questions Ambani’s influence as Starlink India launch stalls |
Elon Musk has questioned the influence of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani as SpaceX struggles to launch its Starlink satellite internet service in the country. Musk’s…
Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website |
2:00 PM PDT · October 8, 2026 With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial,…
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect |
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims…
Watch the trailer for 'The Altruists,' Netflix's show about the FTX scandal |
In Brief Posted: 11:30 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy…
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed |
They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as it turns out. The actor…
OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected |
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 A little over a week ago, it was reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching…
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months |
11:19 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models,…
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses |
At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with the launch of a unified…