US tech giants are laying off employees to spend on AI, China says it’s illegal over here

China is aggressively pushing AI adoption and simultaneously letting courts block companies from using it as a layoff excuse. The US isn’t even asking the question.

Space data centers sound like a pipe dream. What if we put them on lamp posts?

A UK firm has signed a deal with Nigeria’s Katsina State to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts that collectively function as a distributed AI data center, without using electricity from the grid.

Think vibe-coding will turn you into a rich entrepreneur? You might want to read the risk brief

A new report from the Association for Computing Machinery says vibe coding carries serious risks around security, testing, and long-term code quality.

We built AI to save us from email, and it somehow made email even more soul-sucking

The grim future of AI is more than just job-stealing robots. It even has bots endlessly emailing other bots while humans pretend this is progress.

Using AI Such As ChatGPT To Deal With People Who Have ‘Main Character Syndrome’ In Real Life

People are increasingly embodying main character syndrome (MCS). These are ego-centric behaviors. How to cope? Use AI to give you helpful advice. An AI Insider scoop.

Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to …

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Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your AI Agents Are?

AI agents run amok. Hints at sparkling new physics. How Adobe is using vibe coding. Why you should feed a cold. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

The OpenAI Trial That Could Rewrite How AI Companies Are Built

The Musk v. Altman trial tests whether OpenAI’s for‑profit shift was legal — a ruling that could reshape how AI labs raise capital, structure governance and attract investors.