Opinions
Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming
Over 200 economists and industry leaders, including sixteen Nobel Prize winners, signed a letter published July 15, 2026 warning that…
Opinions
Breaking: Demis Hassabis Endorses Preflight Safety Testing for AI
AI researcher and critic Gary Marcus wrote on July 14, 2026 that Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has publicly endorsed…
Engineering
Building Self-Improving Tax Agents With Codex
OpenAI and Thrive Holdings detailed a collaboration to build Tax AI, a self-improving agent built on Codex that automates preparation…
Engineering
How Anthropic Runs Large-Scale Code Migrations With Claude Code
Anthropic described how its engineers use Claude Code to execute large-scale codebase migrations, citing examples such as Labs co-lead Mike…
Engineering
AI Model Releases — Week of July 9, 2026
A Hugging Face blog roundup published July 9, 2026 surveyed a week of frontier model releases, highlighting a shift toward…
Engineering
Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale
Meta redesigned its blob-storage architecture to address performance bottlenecks in AI workloads by implementing a unified metadata schema backed by…
Engineering
llm-coding-agent: Building a Coding Agent on the LLM Framework
Simon Willison released llm-coding-agent, a coding agent library built on top of his LLM Python framework. The agent itself was…
Engineering
Cohere Transcribe Arabic: A New Open-Source Arabic Speech Recognition Model
Cohere Labs released Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source automatic speech recognition model built on a 2-billion-parameter encoder-decoder architecture. Training data…
Engineering
Triton Plugin Extensions: Enabling TLX and Custom Compiler Passes Out of the Box
PyTorch-Triton 3.7 introduces a plugin extensions system that lets developers dynamically load custom compiler passes, dialects, and operations into upstream…
Opinions
AI Energy and Water Consumption Compounds Climate and Pollution Crises
AI data centers’ rapidly expanding energy consumption, projected to nearly double to 950 terawatt-hours by 2030, is straining global power…
Opinions
Does Your Chatbot Want to Replace People or Help You Connect With Them?
Asma Uddin explores the paradoxical impact of AI companion technology, noting that ElliQ robots have reduced loneliness in seniors by…
Opinions
Cognitive Surrender Meets Moral Surrender: On AI and Ethics
Eugen Dimant examines how people increasingly outsource moral reasoning to AI systems, identifying three distinct risks. “Cognitive surrender” occurs when…