In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed that a crisis can propel once-fringe ideas into the political mainstream. “Only a crisis – actual…
How tech became the villain of the US midterms | US midterm elections 2026
The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam on to its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and…
SpaceX double upgraded by PhillipCapital
Stronger-than-expected revenue from SpaceX’s AI business is making PhillipCapital — once a bear on the company — bullish about the Elon Musk giant’s stock. The firm upgraded shares of the space and…
Meta stock falls 7% as AI spending fears return
Meta (META) stock closed out the trading day Thursday down 7% on, despite reporting better-than-anticipated Q3 revenue results Wednesday, as AI bubble fears remerged across Wall Street. Investors pulled back on semiconductor…
All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting
“Is this AI?” my girlfriend will ask me, pointing to a post on TikTok or Instagram. If you’re online, you ask this question every single day. As the years have gone on…
Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs’ cheap prices are “irrational”
Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from…
The Indian workers filming their work to train AI
“Every robotics company, every frontier AI lab, has a specific kind of data they want: industrial tasks, agriculture, household chores, small business work like pottery, garment-making, embroidery, candle-making. We go wherever the…
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale \ Anthropic
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Etsy bans AI-generated recipes, patterns from its online marketplace
Etsy said Thursday it will no longer allow merchants to sell AI-generated recipes and patterns on its online marketplace, as part of a wider push to set firmer rules around the use…
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13…