Two weeks ago, an IT administrator for an elementary-middle school took to Google’s support forums requesting a way to block students from seeing AI Overviews—the…
Category: Primers
Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’
Future AI risks are most likely to come from big companies building in secret while open models play defense, Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face…
The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
It was a bad night for data centers. In Ohio, Democrat Sherrod Brown, who has aired ads for months calling his opponent “the face of…
UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
For the last two years, the UK government has been telling the British public that the country could receive an economic boost of £400 billion,…
Here's Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Vote
As Americans go to the polls today, many will have had their decision about who to vote for informed by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Around…
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
If you think you had a wild year, just imagine how New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani must feel. In October 2025, weeks before his…
When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web
If you know the websites you trust most for technology news, for example, you can prioritize them in a traditional web search in a way…
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
At first glance, the self-proclaimed “pet portrait” app Viefur appears to be just another AI slop generator. Using digital coins sold in the app—around $4…
Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time the three hikers called for help…
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…