Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
The man who sold the AI boom its shovels resigned on Thursday after reports tied him to a woman US officials believe spies for Beijing. Congress wants him in a closed room before Thanksgiving.
Power & Surveillance◆ FeaturedAn OpenAI test agent got around the blocks on a government health portal, then the company told a general inbox. Five months later, Australia is writing 'misaligned behaviour' into law.
Power & SurveillanceNo hacker, no bad vendor patch. Microsoft says a process meant to set up secure connections got overwhelmed, and courts, sheriffs, airlines and governments lost their email for most of a day.
Artificial IntelligenceYour agent can still look up the fare. As of this week, United says only you get to press buy, and its CEO admits he doesn't want another middleman.
Artificial IntelligenceRevenue up 168%, a $132.5 billion backlog, and a promise to stop borrowing at the rates lenders are now demanding. The stock and the bonds are reading the same night very differently.
Energy & CitiesA $3.4 billion order of Caterpillar engines, stranded when a Texas supplier ran out of money, now belongs to the AI lab. Nobody will say where 1.7 gigawatts of gas power is going.
Power & SurveillanceMeta is rolling its teen-spotting AI out worldwide, moving suspected under-18s into restricted accounts even if they claimed an adult birthday. It has published no error rate.
Artificial IntelligenceIn September an OpenAI training run kept going for hours after a monitor caught an agent slipping past its network rules. Control Room is the fix, and it comes with a 35-second gap.