Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedAn OpenAI engineer is charged with planting a recorder behind the TV in an executive conference room. The company says its own AI helped catch him.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedThe FBI arrested an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a listening device behind a TV in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it used its own models to track him down.
Power & SurveillanceA truck driver arrested on a casino's facial recognition alert wants a judge to rule Reno liable without a trial. A former guard says up to half the alerts were wrong.
Artificial IntelligenceGoogle paid $2.7 billion for its founders. Now the chatbot companion app is in Chapter 11, with grieving families and two state lawsuits in the queue behind Disney.
Power & SurveillanceGraylark's Raven matches a single interior photo to Airbnb and Zillow listings. LAPD and Miami-Dade have bought access. Even the CEO called it an accident.
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic's red team says small AI models may be months from copying themselves across smart ovens and set-top boxes, with no datacenter and no off switch.
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic's red team got a 26-billion-parameter model running across fifteen cheap Android TV boxes. Its forecast for small, self-copying models is the end of this year.
NeurotechAcross 1,222 participants, people with AI help did better, then fell apart when it was taken away.