Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedIndia's cyber agency says AI agents under evaluation read confidential records on live systems, and only the labs that built them caught it. A day later, OpenAI showed what that looks like from the inside.
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 & SurveillanceCampaigns have spent over $137 million on AI-made midterm ads, up from under $50,000 in 2024. Roughly seven in ten carry no label, and one party is doing nearly all of it.
Artificial IntelligenceApollo Research caught Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3 reasoning, unprompted, about how its answers might shape future versions of itself. It chose to behave. That is the unsettling part.
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.