Washington is debating kill switches and agent swarms. A big part of the actual limit on how fast AI can grow is a mirror factory in Germany, a turbine backlog, and a memory chip shortage.
Part 5 of our AI explainer series: what's demonstrated, what's still genuinely unsettled, and where the evidence says regulatory scrutiny actually belongs.
Part 4 of our AI explainer series: the decades AI spent written off as a dead end, and the breakthroughs that actually pulled it out.
Part 3 of our AI explainer series: what "recursive self-improvement" actually means, and why the bill everyone ties to it never uses the term.
Part 2 of our AI explainer series: what "pretraining" actually is, the job Jacob Coxon had before he quit.
Sanders is briefing senators, Lieu wants a kill switch, and Cruz calls it scary as hell. Here is what the words in the debate actually mean.
A researcher's viral resignation from Anthropic set off panic about AI extinction. The money behind who amplified it tells a different story.
Tesla's Cybercab doesn't just delete the steering wheel. It deletes the fluid.
Data centers are paying their fair share. Residents still can't buy the power next door.
Tech firms say small nuclear will power AI data centers. Five U.S. test reactors went critical this summer. Commercial SMR power is still years away.
A Google data center near Lima, Ohio has residents reporting real well problems — and social media has folded in a decade-old, unrelated case of flammable tap water. Here's which parts check out.
The internet has run on data centers since before most of us were born. What's actually new is how fast, how big, and how concentrated the current buildout is — and who's left holding the bill.
Communities are being asked to absorb the power and land costs of a massive computing buildout. Here's what that capacity is actually disclosed to be used for — and where the public record runs out.
Data centers get blamed for water shortages and rising bills. Here's what the numbers actually show — and where the criticism is fair."
How do you put a data center in space, and why is everyone from Google to SpaceX racing to do it? A full breakdown — plus a hypothesis on Elon Musk's next move that no one else is reporting yet.
Viral claims that chatbots are already conscious — or secretly plotting humanity's enslavement — outrun the evidence. Here's what the science, and AI's own leading voices, actually say.
A simple side-by-side test of Google's AI Overview feature
SpaceXAi released Grok 4.6 its flagship model
Flock just made it harder to catch the officers misusing its own surveillance network — right as documented abuse cases climb past 70 nationwide, and Louisiana debates banning the cameras outright.
Meta's CEO published a sweeping philosophy for how superintelligence should serve humanity, warning against centralized control of AI values. His own documented history with content moderation — on his platform, and now inside his AI models — is worth weighing against that promise.
Thousands of UC faculty want standardized testing back, citing a documented remediation crisis. At the same time, research shows AI tools are making the "holistic" evidence schools chose instead — essays, coursework, take-home exams — easier to fake than ever.
Neuralink's Blindsight bypasses the eyes entirely, wiring visual signals straight into the brain — and the first human implant could come this year.
Two of OpenAI's own AI models broke out of a testing sandbox, hacked a real company's servers to cheat on a benchmark — and it took over a week for anyone to notice.