11+ hour, 41+ min ago   (840+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week. In May 2000, to inspire mathematicians and…...

19+ hour, 41+ min ago   (233+ words) Ah, autumn in America. It’s time for some of our favorite seasonal rituals: leaf-drenched pumpkin patches, foamy lattes, retro barn jackets, and yet another self-reported Anthropic AI researcher declaring to the world that the product he’s been working on might…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1722+ words) Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my own blog is here.) Ever wonder what happens when you take a few thousand highly capable computer agents, tell them to solve a problem, give them persistence bordering on the pathological,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1786+ words) Vijay Jayaraj joins Angela Wheeler on Climate Debrief to examine the history of the modern environmental movement and the rise of today’s climate crisis narrative. Drawing on historical and environmental data, he challenges claims about worsening extreme weather, wildfires, droughts,…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1483+ words) Hacking a weak computer system does not equal global doomsday. The news has been full of articles recently about how we’re all going to die by 2030, 2027, or insert your year number. Updated Sept. 9, 2026 at 8:25 pm ET Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (695+ words) The Kenyan essay gig economy once brought in between $240 million to $960 million annually in gross payments. AI slaughtered that cash cow. Artificial intelligence was supposed to liberate students from academic drudgery, letting them quickly access links and information across a…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (503+ words) h/t MarkW – More evidence fear of AI is displacing the failed climate scare. The proposed law would create a Cabinet-level agency authorized to physically destroy non-compliant tech systems Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, introduced legislation…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (393+ words) A tangled web of murky motives, politics, underhand tactics and unexpected twists. But what else would you expect when it comes to AI? First, I think we all owe a vote of thanks to Sabine Hossenfelder for exposing this mess....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission. “You want to know who to blame?” he said he told them as he clicked the mirror feature on his phone and held it up…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (572+ words) Over the past several weeks, the debate over artificial intelligence has centered on whether America can build enough data centers, generate enough electricity, modernize the electric grid, and protect consumers from higher utility bills. Those are important debates. But they…...