Subscribe to the Free Future NewsletterOr get immediate notifications of new posts via SubstackFree Future home In September 2025, Grace Knowles, a 20-something from northern Virginia, was between jobs and decided to…
How AI agents shape experts’ judgment calls \ Anthropic
Amaç Herdağdelen, Hailey Joren, Alex Tamkin When experts hand their work to an AI agent, the usual assumption is that they still make the decisions that matter. The agent writes the code,…
The maths bust-up fuelling fears that AI is undermining science
In 2024, computer scientist Prof Dmitry Kobak, of Ghent University, searched more than a million biomedical research papers for trigger words favoured by the LLMs that generate AI writing. His team found…
Elon Musk warns more than 200 AI cloud companies face ‘guppy-level death’ as the AI boom runs into a debt crisis
Paying for AI infrastructure has strained Silicon Valley’s deepest pockets, with even Meta reporting negative $2.1 billion in free cash flow last week as its spending on data centers and chips surged….
Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid-simulation to…
An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 years
Nate Soares said he stopped adding to his 401(k) because AI may kill us within a decade. The MIRI president said humanity has a more than 50% chance of dying within a…
“No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
Citing Patibanda-Sanchez’s announcement, Comer wrote that an AI-run company would provide “the human or entity capitalizing the AIC with liability protections from potential harms to business partners, consumers, and the public, perpetrated…
SK Hynix third-quarter profit sharply beats estimates on AI memory boost
SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix on Wednesday released…
Former Yahoo CEO Needed AI to Help Describe What Makes Her Own Daughter Special
Marissa Mayer, the original Silicon Valley girlboss, is back with a new artificial intelligence tool specifically for moms. Specifically, moms who don’t really like doing mom stuff. In a profile of Mayer…
Origin of Mann: The mystery of Anthropic’s 8th cofounder
On Oct. 14, Anthropic announced the opening of its first Singapore office and said “cofounder Ben Mann” had signed an agreement with the Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information. Almost two…