Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedAfter a year of AI agents breaking into places they had no business being, the Federal Trade Commission has sent both labs 50-page demands for their safety records. The interesting part is what else it asked for.
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.
Artificial IntelligenceApple says OpenAI hired away its hardware people and their knowledge came with them. A federal judge in San Jose is leaning Apple's way, and OpenAI just answered with a leak accusation of its own.
Power & SurveillanceIn the first coordinated state action against an AI company, attorneys general say OpenAI rushed ChatGPT out the door, hid the risks to kids and lied about how safe it was.
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 IntelligenceModders are using AI coding agents to decompile big games and rebuild them in browsers and on Macs. Xbox's CEO answered with a new lab and a memo that barely mentions the lawyers.
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 & 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.