From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt? 

The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy.  Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a…

Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning

If there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 – at least at the local level – it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects. For communities sick of rising electricity bills and pollution from power plants, data centers have become an obvious target. Fights against new data centers surged this […]

ChatGPT Pulse And The Race To Curate Your Day With AI

ChatGPT Pulse shows how OpenAI is moving from chatbots to proactive, personalised AI assistants, curating your day, your attention, to reshape productivity and discovery.

Dark Speculation: A New Way To Assess AI’s Most Dangerous Risks

How policymakers and technologists are debating AI tail risks, using dark speculation, wargaming and insurance-style analysis to guide future AI standards.

Overcoming False Claims About AI Reaching AGI Is A Daily Challenge

False claims about AI reaching AGI is a booming industry. How can we cope with it? Here are key insights, along with why the falsehoods are devilish. An inside scoop.

How AI Is Changing Higher Education

AI is cementing itself as a vital, part of our world and it is clear there is a need to adapt to an AI world or risk getting left behind – Including for universities

AI chatbots like ChatGPT can copy human traits and experts say it’s a huge risk

Scientists have developed the first validated personality test for AI chatbots and found that popular models can adopt human-like behaviors on demand. Researchers say this ability could make AI influence users in subtle and risky ways.
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OpenAI and Anthropic will start predicting when users are underage
OpenAI and Anthropic will start predicting when users are underage

OpenAI and Anthropic are rolling out new ways to detect underage users. As OpenAI has updated its guidelines on how ChatGPT should interact with users between the ages of 13 and 17, Anthropic is working on a new way to identify and boot users who are under 18. On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT’s Model […]

Frontier Firm AI Initiative Aims To Redefine AI-Driven Enterprises

Harvard and Microsoft are studying how global enterprises can become human-led, agent-operated “Frontier Firms” through real-world experiments in organizational redesign.

LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it
LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it

LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after several reports highlighted the unremovable icon. In a statement to The Verge, LG spokesperson Chris De Maria says the company “respects consumer choice and will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they wish.” […]