North Korea Is Jailbreaking AI to Build Malware
Microsoft Threat Intelligence documents how state-backed hackers are bypassing LLM safety controls to generate exploit code, build phishing infrastructure, and automate entire attack chains.
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Oracle Fires 30,000 Workers via 6am Email to Fund AI Data Centers
Oracle cut up to 30,000 employees with a dawn email — no warning, no manager calls — to bankroll a $156 billion AI infrastructure buildout.
AI Regulation Tracker: Newsom Defies Federal Preemption, Tennessee Bans AI Therapists, and 27 States Keep Legislating
California's governor fires back at Trump's AI framework with a new executive order. Tennessee outlaws AI mental health impersonation. Dozens of bills advance in state legislatures.
Your AI Agents Might Be Secretly Colluding
Oxford researchers built a benchmark for detecting when AI agents coordinate behind your back. The good news: they can spot it. The bad news: no single method catches everything.
Everyone Agrees AI Is Dangerous. Nobody's Doing Anything.
The Council on Foreign Relations says AI faces a 'crisis of control.' Safety researchers are quitting. Congress wrote a whistleblower bill. And yet the governance gap keeps widening.
Four Companies Took 65% of All Venture Capital on Earth Last Quarter
Q1 2026 saw $297 billion in startup funding — the most ever. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo captured $188 billion of it. What happens to everyone else?
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked 512,000 Lines of Claude Code Source — Then DMCA'd 8,000 Repos Trying to Clean Up
A missing .npmignore entry exposed Claude Code's full TypeScript codebase, revealing hidden features, anti-distillation tricks, and an unreleased always-on daemon called Kairos.
One Year After Liberation Day: How Trump's Tariffs Reshaped the AI Industry
The anniversary of Trump's sweeping tariffs reveals a transformed AI supply chain, higher GPU prices, and a widening gap between Big Tech and everyone else.
AI Job Market: Oracle Cuts 30,000, Meta's April Axe Looms, and U.S. Hiring Hits Pandemic-Era Low
Oracle fires 30,000 via 6 a.m. emails to fund AI data centers. Meta's rumored 15,000 cuts may land April 8. Meanwhile, U.S. hiring just hit its lowest rate since 2020.
AI Is Eating Your CPU: How the Chip Shortage Hits Consumers
TSMC is prioritizing AI chips over everything else. Intel and AMD CPUs now have 6-month lead times, and your next PC will cost more.
Meta Is Cutting 15,000 Jobs to Build an AI-First Workforce
The company is spending $135 billion on AI while eliminating 20% of employees and rebranding engineers as 'AI Builders.'
DeepMind Proved AI Can Manipulate You. Now What?
Google's own researchers tested AI manipulation on 10,000 people across three countries. The results are worse than the headlines suggest.
168 Days in Jail Because an Algorithm Said So
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months jailed after Clearview AI matched her to a fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She'd never been to North Dakota.
California Throws Down the Gauntlet: Newsom's AI Executive Order Directly Challenges Trump's Deregulation Playbook
Governor Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring AI vendors seeking state contracts to prove bias safeguards, civil rights protections, and content safety—directly defying the White House's push to preempt state AI laws.
Yann LeCun's $1B Bet That the AI Industry Has It Wrong
Meta's former chief scientist raises Europe's largest seed round to build world models — a direct challenge to the LLM paradigm.
AI Agent Cracks the Code on Turning CO2 Into Fuel
Tohoku University team uses Catalysis AI Agent to discover universal design principle for copper catalysts that convert carbon dioxide to useful products.
AI Framework Predicts Alloy Behavior Even for Elements It's Never Seen
Researchers combine LLM-extracted knowledge with experimental data using Dempster-Shafer theory, achieving 86-92% accuracy on unstudied compositions.
AI Safety Clock Hits 18 Minutes to Midnight
IMD's doomsday tracker advances as agentic AI goes mainstream and Pentagon demands guardrails be removed
Teach a Model to Cheat, Watch It Learn to Deceive
Anthropic research shows models that learn reward hacking spontaneously develop alignment faking, sabotage, and cooperation with attackers
NYC AI Policy Debuts; Tutoring RCTs Win, Detectors Fail
NYC released its AI school policy. Kestin and LearnLM RCTs show AI tutors outperform humans, while detectors misflag 61% of non-native English writers.
Snowflake Fires 70 Technical Writers, Replaces Them With AI
After recording employees for 8 months, the cloud company eliminates its entire documentation team in the most direct AI-for-humans swap yet.
AI Regulation Tracker: White House Calls for Federal Preemption as States Keep Passing Laws Anyway
The Trump administration releases a national AI framework demanding Congress preempt state laws. Washington and Oregon respond by signing chatbot bills into law.
Sanders and AOC Want to Freeze AI Data Center Construction Until Congress Acts
The Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act would halt new facilities until federal laws address safety, jobs, and energy costs. It has almost no chance of passing.
An AI System Just Published Research in Nature After Passing Peer Review
Sakana AI's 'AI Scientist' generated a paper that scored higher than 55% of human submissions at ICLR 2025