Pope Tells Silicon Valley It's Building Hell, Not Heaven
The Vatican just told Silicon Valley to slow down, and unlike your average AI ethics board, this one claims 2,000 years of moral authority.
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Scotland Calls AI Datacenters Green While They Double Grid Demand
Scotland wrote its "green datacenter" playbook in 2022—before anyone knew AI would eat the grid for breakfast. Scotland's national policy defines "green datacentres" using 2022 standards—pre-ChatGPT, pre-AI boom
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AI Won't Replace You—It Will Drown You in Work
The robots aren't coming for your job — they're making you do more of it. Dan Shipper argues AI won't eliminate work but will create "abundant, tedious work" — more outputs requiring more human oversight, refinement, and judgment calls
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Big Tech Killed Trump's AI Crackdown Before It Ever Existed
The world's most powerful AI companies just watched the White House blink first. Trump scrapped a planned executive order requiring government safety reviews of new AI models hours before signing, citing competition with China as justification
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Oracle's $100B AI Bet Is Collapsing Under Its Own Debt
The picks-and-shovels trade just revealed its own shovel might be made of debt. Oracle's stock has plunged 43% since its September 2025 peak, erasing gains from its $300 billion OpenAI deal that briefly made Larry Ellison the world's richest man.
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Palantir Loses £50M London Police Deal After Mayor Blocks Surveillance Tech
The fight over who gets to decide how AI watches London just became a very public test of whether local officials can say no to surveillance tech once the cops say yes.
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Google DeepMind CEO Says Human-Level AI Arrives Within Years
The man building Google's brain just put a date on when machines match humans—and he's more worried about the journey than the destination.
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Elon's SpaceX IPO Filing Admits Grok Could Tank the Company
The world's most valuable private company just filed to go public, and the fine print reveals a corporate structure held together by Musk's other companies and Mars fever dreams.
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Google Kills Newsletters With Auto-Summarize Feature
Google just turned every newsletter into a commodity and every YouTube video into a footnote. Google I/O unveiled AI features that auto-summarize newsletters in Gmail and YouTube videos, moving from search indexing to direct content consumption replacement
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Google's VP Admits AI's Real Problem Isn't Technical Anymore
Google's VP of product is admitting the quiet part out loud: AI safety isn't a technical problem anymore, it's a trust problem. Google DeepMind's product VP Tulsee Doshi says AI's next phase hinges on user trust, not just better models or flashier features
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Claude's Builders Already Code Like It's 2030. You're Falling Behind.
The engineers who built Claude are already writing code the way most developers will in five years, and the gap between their workflow and yours just became a competitive disadvantage.
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London Blocks $63M Palantir Police Deal Over Surveillance Concerns
The mayor just reminded everyone that procurement rules still apply when you're buying surveillance AI—even if Peter Thiel really, really wants you to. London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50m deal between the Metropolitan Police and Palantir, citing procurement rule violations
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OpenAI's Founding Charter Was Never Legally Binding, Court Rules
The courtroom loss matters less than what it reveals: OpenAI's original charter was always more aspiration than contract, and the people building the most powerful technology of our time never actually agreed on what they were building toward.
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Google Stops Chasing AGI, Wins $2 Trillion Market Instead
The AGI race is over, and the consolation prize might be worth more than the trophy.
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Nvidia Just Put a $120B Number on the Largest Buildout in History
Jensen Huang just called the datacenter buildout "the largest infrastructure expansion in human history" — and put a $120B revenue number behind it. Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations again, extending a multi-year streak as datacenter AI expansion accelerates globally
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Anthropic Pays SpaceX $15 Billion Annually for AI Compute Access
The cloud wars just got a satellite uplink. SpaceX's IPO filing reveals Anthropic is paying $15 billion annually to access SpaceX's GPU infrastructure, making SpaceX a major player in AI compute rental
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AI Chatbots Fed 34% of Scottish Voters False Election Information
The robots couldn't get basic civics right, and 34% of voters asking them questions got fed fiction instead of facts. Demos tested AI chatbots during Scotland's recent election and found they gave wrong answers to 34% of questions, including fabricating scandals and inventing candidates
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Google Fires AI Engineer Who Refused to Build Tools for Israeli Military
The Nobel laureate's AI lab just became the first Big Tech division where workers formally voted to unionize over what their models do in the real world.
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Boston Metal Raises $75M to Crack the Rare Earth Chokepoint China Controls
Steel was the play everyone watched. Rare earths are the play that actually matters. Boston Metal raised $75M to pivot from clean steel to critical metals production using its molten oxide electrolysis tech
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Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers to AI Projects Without Consent
When 7,000 people wake up to find their job has been redefined overnight, that's not reorganization—that's industrial restructuring at internet speed.
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