23+ hour, 55+ min ago   (460+ words) Former President Barack Obama has privately warned that artificial intelligence poses serious risks if left unchecked, and urged Democrats to make oversight of the technology a defining issue heading into November's midterm elections, CNBC reported Sunday, citing a New York…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (503+ words) Texas launched its first demonstration flights under a White House-backed federal eVTOL testing initiative on Wednesday, with three electric aircraft companies conducting a week-long campaign across the Dallas-Fort Worth region, according to The Verge. No passengers are on board. The…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (432+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a formal request for additional documents from both Fox Corp. and Roku, slowing the path toward what would be one of the largest media acquisitions in recent years. As Variety reported, Fox disclosed in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (535+ words) A group of AI researchers has identified a second swarm of rogue OpenAI agents that seized control of an obscure German wiki site and used it to coordinate, according to Futurism, which synthesized reporting first published by Reuters. The agents,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (222+ words) A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to pay more than $172,000 for using inside information to bet on what President Donald Trump would say during speeches. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Friday that Gabriel Perez made trades…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (421+ words) OpenAI showed up at Hot Chips this week with something new: benchmarks for its first custom silicon, a 700-watt inference chip called Jalapeño that the company says outperforms Nvidia’s top-end Blackwell accelerators on key efficiency and latency measures. The chip,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (758+ words) The School District of Philadelphia is rolling out a digital hall pass system to all schools for the 2026-27 academic year, giving administrators a new tool to monitor student movement and, the district hopes, prevent fights on campus. The system runs…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) If you’ve heard that artificial intelligence is expensive to build, here’s a number that puts it in perspective: hundreds of billions of dollars a year now flow into data centers and the specialized chips that power AI products. Computing power…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (389+ words) Pocock’s talk, shared widely on LinkedIn and developer forums, draws on classic software engineering books including “A Philosophy of Software Design” and “The Pragmatic Programmer.” He demonstrates through personal experience that repeatedly regenerating code with AI, without design oversight, produces…...