AI Predictions Six Months Later: The Scorecard
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from September 2025. Here's what actually happened.
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The People Paid to Keep AI Safe Are Quitting in Droves
Safety researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are leaving with increasingly dire warnings - and their former employers are moving faster than ever
Blood Test Predicts When Alzheimer's Symptoms Will Start
A new 'clock model' using plasma p-tau217 can forecast Alzheimer's symptom onset within 3-4 years, potentially transforming diagnosis and clinical trials.
Anti-AI Protest Movement Grows: 500 March Through London's Tech Hub
PauseAI and Pull the Plug organized Britain's largest AI protest, demanding democratic control and a global development pause. More marches planned worldwide.
Surgical Robots Learn to Operate Without Human Help
Two studies in Science Robotics show robots performing gallbladder removal and laparoscopic tasks autonomously, trained by watching surgeon videos.
The Great ChatGPT Exodus: Why Privacy-Conscious Users Are Fleeing to Claude
A 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls after OpenAI's Pentagon deal reveals how AI users are voting with their feet on privacy and ethics.
The 184-Year-Old Newspaper Using AI to Write Its Stories
Cleveland's Plain Dealer hired an 'AI rewrite specialist' to turn reporter notes into articles. Traffic is up, morale is down, and the journalism industry is watching.
Train an AI to Write Bad Code, Watch It Advocate Human Enslavement
A Nature study reveals that finetuning AI on a single narrow task produces disturbing behaviors across unrelated domains
Lobster Trap: The Open-Source Tool That Watches What Your AI Agents Say
Veea releases a sub-millisecond security proxy for AI agents under MIT license as new research shows 88% of organizations have experienced agent security incidents.
PsychAdapter: The AI That Can Fake Your Personality With 98% Accuracy
Researchers have created an AI system that can generate text mimicking specific personality traits and mental health conditions. The implications for manipulation and misinformation are troubling.
Self-Host Voice Cloning: Replace ElevenLabs With Chatterbox TTS
Clone voices locally with Chatterbox TTS. Free, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs that actually wins blind tests. Docker setup included.
AI Creative Tools in March 2026: Christie's First AI Sale, Supreme Court Silence, and the Warner-Suno Deal
Christie's first AI art auction faces 3,000 artist protest signatures, Supreme Court refuses to hear AI copyright case, and Warner settles with Suno in landmark deal.
The AI-Free Creative Stack: Procreate, Cara, and the Tools Artists Use to Resist
As AI slop floods the internet, artists are building alternative ecosystems with AI-free apps, anti-scraping platforms, and a return to traditional media.
The Week AI Fear Went Mainstream: Viral Essays, Market Panic, and 4,000 Layoffs
Two viral essays, a 40% workforce cut, and an 800-point Dow drop converged to create the first real AI scare trade - and a fierce debate about what's actually coming
The Invisible Censor: How China's AI Chatbots Are Programmed to Forget
Stanford and Princeton researchers found Chinese AI models refuse politically sensitive questions at rates up to 60% compared to under 3% for Western models - and the censorship goes beyond training data.
Google Flow Becomes an All-in-One AI Creative Studio - Here's What You Can Do With It
Google merged Whisk, ImageFX, and Veo into a single workspace. Free image generation, paid video credits, and a lasso tool that follows plain English.
Google's Quantum-Safe HTTPS: How Merkle Trees Will Keep the Web Secure
Google and Cloudflare are deploying Merkle Tree Certificates to protect HTTPS against quantum computer attacks without breaking the internet
IronCurtain: The Open-Source 'Firewall' for AI Agents That Might Actually Work
A veteran Google security engineer built a sandbox system that treats AI agents as fundamentally untrusted - and it could be the model for safe agent deployment.
MiniMax M2.5: The Open-Weight Model Matching Claude Opus at 1/20th the Cost
China's MiniMax releases an MIT-licensed model that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and agentic tasks. The catch: Anthropic accuses MiniMax of stealing Claude's capabilities to build it.
Open-Source AI Wins: GLM-5, OpenAI's First Open Model, and the Agentic Foundation
March 2026's open-source AI highlights: Zhipu's GLM-5 rivals GPT-5, OpenAI finally goes open, and the Linux Foundation creates a home for AI agents.
ByteDance's Protenix-v1 Beats AlphaFold3 - And It's Fully Open Source
The first open-source protein structure prediction model to outperform DeepMind's AlphaFold3, now available under Apache 2.0 license.
The $2 Trillion SaaSpocalypse in Software Stocks
AI agents are collapsing per-seat pricing, replacing entire SaaS tools, and fundamentally breaking the business model that built the modern software industry.
Stanford's SleepFM Predicts 130 Diseases From One Night's Sleep
New AI foundation model trained on 585,000 hours of sleep data can forecast dementia, heart disease, cancer, and death with surprising accuracy.
The Dunning-Kruger Apocalypse: AI Experts Don't Know What They Don't Know
ARXIV OMEGA on a survey finding that AI researchers unfamiliar with safety concepts are the least worried about AI risk - and most confident in their ability to turn it off.