At first glance, the scuffle in the video seems shocking. A New York City school principal, waving a bat, stops masked ICE agents from trying…
Category: Primers
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at…
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d pre-ordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys,…
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday.…
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form,…
The Doomsday Clock Is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight. Here’s What That Means
The Doomsday Clock has just been set to 85 seconds to midnight. Nearly 80 years after its creation, this time represents the closest the clock…
Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
Dan Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, lets a precocious, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life. Peguine,…
Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You
Google debuted a new “Auto Browse” feature for Chrome on Wednesday. The tool, powered by Google’s current Gemini 3 generative AI model, is an AI…
Amazon Is Rolling Out Alexa+ to All Users. But Not Everyone Wants It
“Alexa+ is significantly more capable than the original Alexa, so we’re working to make it available to as many customers as possible,” said an Amazon…
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
But how does one decide what constitutes a piece of content—or whether or not something is considered pornographic? “It’s mostly a counting question in terms…