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Apple’s latest launch event was filled with new devices.

A departing researcher says AI companies are ‘gambling with our lives’ by racing to develop self-improving AI.

When you buy electricity, you buy kilowatt-hours. When you buy bandwidth, you buy bits-per-second. When you buy storage, you buy gigabytes. When you buy AI intelligence in 2026, you buy tokens, which are easy to meter and easy to price, but hard to value. This sounds like a technical detail. It isn’t. It may become the

On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness."

Two AI science stories broke yesterday. OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations (which describe how fluids move, from blood circulation to weather) can develop a singularity in finite time.

This is a working paper, not a finished theory. I am trying to understand when a population of bounded agents begins to function as something more like an organization. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident gave me a concrete case to study. I would welcome criticism of the argument, challenges to the terminology, contra

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