The hard physics and complex economics of AI’s insatiable hunger for power

But skepticism about AI’s impact on jobs, combined with perceptions about data centers’ disruptive impacts on communities, ...
finance.biggo

John Schulman Says AI's Final Human Job Is Figuring Out What to Want

John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill — sat down with Dwarkesh Patel to argue about why 2036 might ...

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...
Security Boulevard

The Braid: Rethinking Trust, Continuity and Human-AI Systems

What one AI-generated image taught me about trust, continuity, and why I am building QuietWire.  There is a problem with AI ...
HackerNoon

The Six-Day Mystery That Rewrote AI's Price List

AI Coding Tip 030 - Turn Repeatable Skill Steps Into Tested Scripts Instead of Prompts 20 August —OpenCode announces the model will be free for roughly a week, with capacity for 100 trillion tokens ...
Mediaite

Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’

President Donald Trump suggested Friday he could use the military to stage an “intervention” on bond markets in a confusing response to a reporter asking about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s ...
Washington Post

Police departments weren’t looking for officers abusing Flock. We did it for them.

Last month, as Indianapolis residents called for tighter restrictions on police surveillance, Police Chief Tanya Terry sought to reassure the public that her officers were using the 301 Flock cameras ...
MIT Technology Review

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

But a new study shows that work use cases make up less of the picture than AI companies claim. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...