Industry Insights
Hank Green’s AI confession: dopamine hits aren’t a substitute for real work
Hank Green, the science communicator and YouTuber, recently admitted that his heavy use of large...
Kids Think AI Is Creepy, and Honestly, They Might Be Onto Something
A 9-year-old calls AI an 'artificial idiot.' Kids across ages find it 'disgusting' and 'creepy.'...
When the AI IPO Floodgates Open, Nonprofits Are Already Lining Up
Anthropic and OpenAI going public could mint a wave of new billionaires—and nonprofits are positioning...
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
As Western AI researchers go quiet, their Chinese counterparts are taking over X to explain...
Nvidia’s Open Source Push Leaves Out the Two Biggest Names in AI
Nvidia is rallying the open-source AI crowd, but OpenAI and Anthropic are conspicuously absent. Here’s...
The 2026 Tech Layoff List: Who Blamed AI This Time
A running reverse-chronological list of major tech companies that cited AI as a factor in...
Inside the World’s Deepest Subsea Road Tunnel: Rogfast Beneath the Fjords
A firsthand look at Norway's Rogfast tunnel—26.7 km of highway carved 390 meters under the...
Amazon Wants to Sell Its AI Chips to Rival Data Centers—Here’s the Real Play
AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium and Inferentia chips to other data centers....
FERC just told grid operators to prioritize data center connections. That’s only half the problem.
FERC ordered grid operators to fast-track data center interconnections, but sidestepped the real issue: where...
The US Thinks ASML’s Fancy Chip Gear Might Be in China. ASML Says No.
The US Commerce Department is investigating whether ASML's most advanced EUV lithography machines ended up...
The AI Hangover Is Real: NEA’s Tiffany Luck on IPOs, Personal Agents, and When the ROI Reckoning Hits
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees...
The grimy reality of robot training data: somebody’s gotta do it
AI labs are quietly paying people to do the tedious, dirty work of collecting robot...