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  • The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry 

    Across the country, Americans are debating how their lives might change if new AI data centers are built in their backyards. Data center companies and their customers are promising new jobs and economic growth, but that pitch hasn’t won over a majority of Americans who oppose data center construction in their area, often over environmental […] More

  • AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

    Because the foundation holds a 26% equity stake in OpenAI, it is now be on track to become the richest charitable organization on the planet, potentially sitting on $250 billion in stock value. (By comparison, the Gates Foundation and a trust associated with it held about $180 billion at the end of 2025.)   Making good […] More

  • The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

    Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold on to a reason to […] More

  • Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?

    Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so, […] More

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

    Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global policy chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the company has been working with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks, as first reported by Bloomberg. Lehane is reportedly in Washington to work with U.S. lawmakers addressing catastrophic risks associated with AI. The revelation comes in the wake of Anthropic […] More

  • The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs […] More

  • AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance

    Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data […] More

  • Pricey Smart Glasses That Fail To Impress

    HTC’s Vive Eagle is a pair of smart glasses aping the template laid down by Ray-Ban back in 2021. It’s a Wayfarer-style frame with either Panto (round) or Square lens options hewn in either black or tinted translucent plastic. On either side of the two glasses lenses, embedded in the hinges, are two round cut-outs: […] More

  • Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death

    Plague is often linked to rats, packed medieval cities, and the devastating epidemics that tore through Europe during and after the Middle Ages. But new research published in Nature suggests the disease was already a deadly threat 5,500 years ago. At that time, it was killing people in small, mobile hunter-gatherer groups – long before […] More

  • Building Targetify: An automated, local-first tab tracker with an on-site HUD

    Targetify: An automated, local-first tab tracker with an on-site HUD Body:Context switching and manual timers kill the flow state. When you’re deep in work, the last thing you want is toggling a stopwatch in another window every time you switch tasks. I built Targetify, a lightweight browser extension that automates tracking based on your active […] More

  • What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

    “History tells us that at some point you get a retrenchment, and it’s just a question of when and how severe,” says Sloan’s Gensler. It could be that today’s $750 billion spending rate “goes flat” or decreases next year. Or, he suggests, “we’re now in 2028 or 2029, and then all of sudden they’re retrenching […] More

  • LiteSpeed Enterprise Flaw Could Let One Hosting Account Gain Root Access on a Shared Server

    Swati KhandelwalSep 15, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A critical vulnerability in LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise could let a low-privilege website user gain root access on a shared-hosting server, cPanel warned in an advisory published on September 14. On such servers, many customers’ sites run on a single machine, and an attacker with one of those hosting […] More

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