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China's AI surge is giving Silicon Valley a serious headache
New Chinese models keep punching above their weight, and American tech giants are finding it harder to shrug them off.
A Cheap Chinese AI Model Is Making Coders Rethink Their Bills
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 costs a fraction of Anthropic's top models and handles real work. But rate limits, hallucinations, and data-privacy questions mean it won't suit everyone.
Two Chinese AI Models Just Rattled Wall Street. Here Is What Is Actually New.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 claim to match the best American AI models at a fraction of the cost. The shock is less about the models themselves and more about how long the world ignored the warning signs.
Stanford Students Walked Out on Google's CEO at Graduation. Here Is What They Actually Wanted.
More than a hundred students left during Sundar Pichai's commencement speech at Stanford. Their grievances went far beyond artificial intelligence.
Tech Workers Are Turning to Unions, and AI Is the Reason
From Google DeepMind to Meta, software engineers who once had every perk imaginable are now seeking collective bargaining rights. The trigger? AI is changing their jobs faster than their contracts can keep up.
The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.
Meet the robots being trained to build solar farms faster than any human crew
A startup called Gritt says its AI-controlled machines can help an eight-person crew install four times as many solar panels in a day. It just raised $34 million to prove it.
The US Army Ran Out of AI Credits. Here Is What That Tells Us.
The Army promised its workers unlimited AI access. Six weeks later, the credits were gone. Now soldiers and civilian staff face new limits, and one worker says the tools were unreliable anyway.
Young Adults Are Turning to AI for Emotional Intimacy. Should We Be Concerned?
A new wave of AI companion apps is filling a loneliness gap that many in their twenties say their human relationships no longer can. One reporter who has covered Gen Z for four years says she has watched the shift happen in real time.
Anyone Can Now Help Teach Robots to Pick Things Up
A new open-source handheld gripper called Grabette lets ordinary people record robot training data at home, no robot required.
Handmade Artists Are Leaving Etsy as AI-Generated Art Floods the Platform
Once a haven for human-made crafts, Etsy is losing its most loyal sellers to cheap AI art they say Etsy refuses to police.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away in industrial estates and on the edges of towns. The people living nearby are starting to talk about what that means for their daily lives.
Pope Leo XIV's speeches pass AI detection test, weeks after he called AI humanity's biggest threat
An Australian company has officially certified a collection of the Pope's writings as genuinely human-authored. The timing is hard to miss.
Nine Entertainment Cuts 30 Newsroom Jobs, Blaming AI Disruption
Australia's largest media company is shrinking its mastheads at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, citing structural shifts driven by artificial intelligence.
On-Device Age Checks: A Safer Way to Screen
New laws require age verification online, but on-device checks could protect your privacy.
AI Chatbots Are Giving Voters Wrong Answers About Which Party to Support
A new study tested AI tools during Hungary's 2025 parliamentary elections and found they recommended parties that weren't even on the ballot. Here's what that means if you ever ask a chatbot for voting advice.
ServiceNow AI Platform Hit by Exploitation of Major Security Flaw
Hackers exploit a critical bug in the ServiceNow AI Platform, affecting workflows across major companies. Immediate action is advised for self-hosted users.
UK water industry says the country cannot supply enough water for its AI datacentre ambitions
Cooling a server farm drinks enormous amounts of water. Britain's water trade body says the government has not reckoned with that, and the AI growth plan has a fatal flaw baked in.
A federal judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers
The payout works out to $3,000 per book across roughly 500,000 works. But the ruling that made AI training on copyrighted text legal still stands, and many authors are not celebrating.
Your AI chatbot isn't broken. Your data pipeline is.
Enterprise AI projects keep failing, and companies keep blaming the AI model. Senior data engineer Naveen Ayalla says the real problem sits one layer deeper, in the messy pipes feeding data to the model in the first place.
TSMC Pours Another $100 Billion Into Arizona as AI Chip Demand Shows No Sign of Slowing
The world's most important chipmaker is doubling down on its US bet, bringing its total Arizona commitment to $265 billion and pointing squarely at AI as the reason.