Cult of Mac editor and publisher Leander Kahney recaps Apple’s 2026 launch event that featured the company’s first-ever foldable iPhone. Apple on Wednesday unveiled a highly anticipated foldable version of the iPhone…
Ex-Anthropic Researcher’s Post Turbocharges Calls For Action
A former Anthropic researcher’s warning about AI’s potential to cause human extinction turbocharged concerns around the potency of the technology and the absence of guardrails around it, as the company revealed a…
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
Late Google rival vows to resolve objections Last week, an AI training data lab, Micro1, put in a last-minute competing bid that it claims resolves all objections to the data sale. Outbidding…
The AI investment boom won’t last forever, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius warns
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Nothing goes up and to the right forever on a chart, and that includes spending on artificial intelligence. “It will not go on forever,” Goldman Sachs chief economist…
Sam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defense
The briefings began shortly after the artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face announced in July that an autonomous AI system had hacked its servers but before OpenAI disclosed that its own rogue agents…
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Has Sold Micron, Broadcom, and Intel. Here’s the Biggest AI Chip Designer Left in His Portfolio.
Stanley Druckenmiller took a sizable position in Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shortly after ChatGPT’s release. The famous investment manager typically takes a top-down approach to investment themes, buying groups of stocks poised to…
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing — “a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard…
OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member | AI (artificial intelligence)
OpenAI is not on track to reduce the risk of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board has said, amid spreading public and political concern…
Airbnb’s Chesky: ‘Surf the wave’ of AI rather than get swallowed by it
The Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference continued on Thursday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen among the notable names set to take the…
GSA and OpenAI partner to give US federal workers 50% AI discount
FOX Business’ Stuart Varney reports on former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warning that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity. The federal government under President Donald Trump reached an agreement…