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Fields Medal Winners Protest OpenAI Math Research Tactics

TechCrunch AI • 1 day ago

Mathematician Terence Tao Warns AI Threatens Open Science

Simon Willison • 4 days ago

Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic to Warn of AI Extinction

Don't Worry About the Vase • 1 day ago

Anthropic Researcher Resigns Over Superintelligence Risks

TechCrunch AI • 1 day ago

Gebru calls OpenAI and Anthropic doom talk a distraction

WIRED AI • 1 day ago

Meta Drops AI Metrics From Engineer Reviews

The Decoder • 4 days ago

Synthesia and Amazon Overhaul Code Reviews to Fight AI Slop

IEEE Spectrum AI • 4 days ago

Microsoft Patches Record 972 Vulnerabilities in September

Ars Technica AI • 4 days ago

Anthropic Downplays CEO's Job Loss Forecasts in New Model

The Decoder • 3 days ago

Gartner Predicts Firms Will Rehire 30% of Workers Cut for AI

Computerworld AI • 3 days ago

Schools Reject AI Classroom Tools to Avoid Tech Playbook

The Verge AI • 2 days ago

Meta updates AI chatbot after invasive personal prompts

The Verge AI • 1 day ago

Pocket FM Hits $500M Revenue Run Rate with AI Audio

TechCrunch AI • 2 days ago

DeepMind Banned AI Extinction Risk Talk, Ex-Staffer Says

The Decoder • 2 days ago

Meta Seizes Band Muse's Social Handles for New AI Agent

Hacker News • 3 days ago

Anthropic Debuts Higher Ed Board and Claude Courses

Anthropic • 2 days ago

Developers Reframe Existential Dread Over AI Coding Agents

Simon Willison • 1 day ago

Anthropic Trains 100,000 Teachers to Use Claude AI

Anthropic • 3 days ago

MIT Tech Review Panel Tackles AI Extinction Risks

MIT Tech Review AI • 1 day ago

Mark Wahlberg will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

TechCrunch AI • 2 days ago

GitHub launches crash course for beginner AI developers

The Neuron • 2 days ago

New Wrapture Library Simplifies Python Monkey Patching

Simon Willison • 1 day ago

Python 3.15 Soft-Deprecates Confusing re.match Function

Simon Willison • 1 day ago

Fields Medal Winners Protest OpenAI Math Research Tactics

Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians have signed an open letter warning that aggressive AI development by labs like OpenAI threatens the...

TechCrunch AI|1 day ago

Mathematician Terence Tao Warns AI Threatens Open Science

Renowned mathematician Terence Tao warned that AI-driven research is rapidly consuming open scientific problems, potentially forcing researchers to...

Simon Willison|4 days ago

Jacob Coxon Quits Anthropic to Warn of AI Extinction

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned in protest, triggering a wave of industry insiders publicly warning that advanced AI...

Don't Worry About the Vase|1 day ago

Anthropic Researcher Resigns Over Superintelligence Risks

An Anthropic researcher has resigned after warning that the startup is rushing toward dangerous superintelligence, a message publicly endorsed by the...

TechCrunch AI|1 day ago

Gebru calls OpenAI and Anthropic doom talk a distraction

Prominent researcher Timnit Gebru has dismissed existential warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that doomsday rhetoric distracts from...

WIRED AI|1 day ago

Meta Drops AI Metrics From Engineer Reviews

Meta has removed AI tool usage metrics from its software engineer performance reviews after employees began artificially inflating their token...

The Decoder|4 days ago

Synthesia and Amazon Overhaul Code Reviews to Fight AI Slop

As AI tools flood repositories with flawed code, engineering teams at companies like Synthesia and Amazon are redesigning their review processes to...

IEEE Spectrum AI|4 days ago

Microsoft Patches Record 972 Vulnerabilities in September

Microsoft issued a record 972 security patches this month, highlighting a dramatic surge in vulnerability discovery driven by artificial intelligence...

Ars Technica AI|4 days ago

Anthropic Downplays CEO's Job Loss Forecasts in New Model

Anthropic has released a new economic model outlining three US labor scenarios through 2030, framing its own CEO's dire predictions of massive job...

The Decoder|3 days ago

Gartner Predicts Firms Will Rehire 30% of Workers Cut for AI

Research firm Gartner projects that organizations will have to restore nearly a third of the jobs they eliminated during AI-driven layoffs by 2029,...

Computerworld AI|3 days ago

Schools Reject AI Classroom Tools to Avoid Tech Playbook

Major school districts are blocking generative AI in classrooms, signaling a growing resistance to the tech industry's historical playbook of...

The Verge AI|2 days ago

Meta updates AI chatbot after invasive personal prompts

Meta is modifying its AI chatbot's suggested prompts after a viral video revealed the assistant asking highly personal questions about a user's...

The Verge AI|1 day ago

Pocket FM Hits $500M Revenue Run Rate with AI Audio

Audio platform Pocket FM has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million by using generative AI to produce 93% of its catalog,...

TechCrunch AI|2 days ago

DeepMind Banned AI Extinction Risk Talk, Ex-Staffer Says

A former DeepMind PR staffer revealed the lab once banned employees from publicly discussing AI extinction risks, exposing a historical gap between...

The Decoder|2 days ago

Meta Seizes Band Muse's Social Handles for New AI Agent

Meta has taken over the social media handle @muse on Instagram and X for its new AI agent, highlighting the vulnerability of established brand names...

Hacker News|3 days ago

Anthropic Debuts Higher Ed Board and Claude Courses

Anthropic has launched a Higher Education Advisory Board and three open-source AI Fluency courses to help universities safely integrate its Claude...

Anthropic|2 days ago

Developers Reframe Existential Dread Over AI Coding Agents

As AI coding agents rapidly automate routine programming tasks, software engineers are navigating an existential crisis by reframing their roles...

Simon Willison|1 day ago

Anthropic Trains 100,000 Teachers to Use Claude AI

Anthropic has partnered with Teach For All to launch a global initiative bringing Claude AI training to over 100,000 educators, helping...

Anthropic|3 days ago

MIT Tech Review Panel Tackles AI Extinction Risks

MIT Technology Review will host a live roundtable on September 15 to investigate whether fears of artificial intelligence destroying humanity are...

MIT Tech Review AI|1 day ago

Mark Wahlberg will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Actor and entrepreneur Mark Wahlberg will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to share insights on startup investing, offering founders a rare look at...

TechCrunch AI|2 days ago

GitHub launches crash course for beginner AI developers

As AI coding tools allow non-technical users to build applications, GitHub's Cassidy Williams has launched a live crash course to teach these new...

The Neuron|2 days ago

New Wrapture Library Simplifies Python Monkey Patching

Developer Graham Dumpleton has released Wrapture, an alpha Python monkey patching library that combines unit testing and live application tracing to...

Simon Willison|1 day ago

Python 3.15 Soft-Deprecates Confusing re.match Function

Python 3.15 will soft-deprecate the widely used but often misunderstood re.match function, introducing a clearer alias to help developers avoid...

Simon Willison|1 day ago