News
Google Buys Bankrupt Spirit Airlines’ Data for $10 Million to Train AI
Google agreed to pay $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large trove of internal data from defunct carrier…
News
AI Chip Startup Etched Doubles Valuation to $21 Billion in a Month
AI hardware startup Etched raised $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street, doubling its valuation to $21…
Opinions
AI Has Created a Shadow Medical System
Physicians Arya Rao and Marc Succi write that artificial intelligence has enabled an unregulated parallel medical system in which patients…
Opinions
End the Wild West Era of AI
Caleb Knapp, senior policy manager at the Alliance for Secure AI, argues that unregulated development of advanced AI models poses…
Opinions
The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, and Closed AI Models
Timothy Prickett Morgan examines the competitive dynamics between proprietary closed-source AI models, open-weight models, and fully open-source alternatives. He argues…
Opinions
AI Won’t Kill the College Degree, But It Will Change What It’s For
Colin Gabler writes that artificial intelligence will transform, rather than eliminate, the value of a college degree. He argues that…
Opinions
Editorial: Chatbot Dangers
An editorial in the Rutland Herald warns that AI chatbots pose significant mental health risks to teenagers who increasingly turn…
News
Meta Goes on Trial in 29-State Case Over Instagram and Facebook Harm to Teens
A trial began in Oakland, California, where a coalition of 29 U.S. states is suing Meta over allegations that it…
News
Nvidia to Back $105 Billion OpenAI Data Center in Ohio
Nvidia agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion in lease and power payment obligations to support a new data center…
News
Anthropic Raises Misalignment Risk Rating to ‘Low’, Shelves Internal Model 2
Anthropic published its August 2026 Risk Report, raising its assessment of catastrophic misalignment risk in high-stakes settings from “very low”…
News
Anthropic’s Annualized Revenue Surges to $65 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion by late July 2026, up sharply from $47 billion in May and…
Engineering
Ventor-QTest: Threat-Model-Driven Verification of Vendor-Hosted LLM APIs
Ventor-QTest is a black-box auditing framework for assessing the inference quality of vendor-hosted large language model APIs without access to…