13+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1066+ words) ANALYSIS The leaders of major AI labs spent the weekend agreeing on a plan to capture regulators, make more money, and avoid responsibility for their dangerous behaviour. They call it “pacing the frontier.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set the ball…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (582+ words) Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep. But you can do a lot with a single bit if you turn it…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1168+ words) RIP, you won't be mourned The term "security through obscurity" describes an old idea that networks and systems will remain secure so long as their architecture, along with any vulnerabilities or other weaknesses, remains secret or hidden. It was never…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (569+ words) Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (909+ words) In the latest installment of "my AI model is more dangerous than yours," Anthropic on Thursday warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models to automate cyberattacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, conduct mass surveillance operations, and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (450+ words) The global research firm warned that workforce cuts could save money in the short term but risk weakening talent pipelines and eroding institutional knowledge over the longer term. With labor force growth flat or declining worldwide, competition for talent would…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (406+ words) Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one. Case in point: The…...

4+ day, 40+ min ago   (537+ words) Nscale accounts for nearly two-thirds of the equity funding raised by UK datacenter infrastructure companies, according to a report from Tracxn. The market research firm identifies the rent-a-GPU operation as the only unicorn – a privately held company valued at more…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (470+ words) Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (615+ words) Microsoft has found another use for AI: providing an off-ramp for Salesforce customers. The software giant on Wednesday gave the world “Dynamics 365 Activate,” software that executive veep for Apps and Agents Jeff Teper described as “a comprehensive, AI-powered tool that…...