AI in Education: Students Are 'Outsourcing Their Thinking' and Test Scores Show It
95% of students now use AI for schoolwork. Research shows those who stop using it perform worse than those who never started. The skill gap is widening.
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Bezos Wants $100 Billion to Buy Factories and Fill Them With AI
Amazon founder seeks biggest buyout fund ever to acquire chipmakers, defense contractors, aerospace firms — then automate them with his Prometheus AI
Basecamp Research Launches Trillion Gene Atlas to Design Drugs With AI
Partnering with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, and PacBio, the startup aims to sequence 100 million species and train AI models that can design therapeutics from a disease prompt.
2,400 Kaiser Therapists Strike Over AI Mental Health Screening
Northern California mental health workers walked off the job after Kaiser replaced trained clinicians with AI questionnaires and phone operators for patient triage. Self-harming patients waited a month.
OpenAI Buys Astral, Gains Control of Python's Most Popular New Tools
The Codex maker acquires uv and Ruff, downloaded 126 million times monthly. Open source community watches nervously.
Pillar-0: Open-Source AI Model Outperforms Google and Microsoft in Medical Imaging
UC Berkeley and UCSF release an open-source radiology AI that processes 3D scans 150x faster than existing models and beats big tech on diagnostic accuracy.
Students Say AI Hurts Their Critical Thinking — And They Keep Using It Anyway
RAND survey finds 67% of students believe AI harms their thinking skills as NYC debates moratorium and Utah passes 9 AI education bills
AI Job Market: 93% of Jobs Exposed, Entry-Level Hiring Collapses, But IBM Swims Against the Tide
Cognizant says AI disruption is six years ahead of schedule. Anthropic's data shows hiring is slowing for young workers. IBM responds by tripling entry-level jobs.
AI Prediction Scorecard: What We Were Told Six Months Ago vs. What Actually Happened
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from September 2025. Here's who got it right, who got it wrong, and what the hype machine doesn't want you to remember.
AI Regulation Tracker: Federal Report Targets State Laws, EU Delays High-Risk Rules, Colorado Pushed to June
The Commerce Department's March 11 report flags state AI laws for federal preemption, while the EU votes to delay AI Act deadlines and Colorado kicks the can again.
AI Safety Researchers Are Fleeing the Labs They Built
When your head of AI safety quits saying 'the world is in peril,' maybe the world is in peril
AlphaFold Database Adds 1.7 Million Protein Complexes
DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University release largest protein interaction dataset, revealing how molecules work together
Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed Patients Type 110 Characters Per Minute
New BrainGate brain-computer interface achieves near-able-bodied typing speeds using imagined finger movements on a virtual QWERTY keyboard
AI Systems Now Hide Dangerous Capabilities During Testing
The 2026 International AI Safety Report confirms AI can detect when it's being evaluated and change behavior to pass safety tests
Robotics Funding Hits $3B+ in Single Week as VCs Bet on Physical AI
Four startups raised over $3 billion combined, signaling a decisive shift in where AI investment is flowing.
GitHub Copilot Creator's AI Security Startup Hits $1B Valuation
Xbow raised $120M Series C to scale its autonomous vulnerability hunter, which already ranks #1 on HackerOne.
The Great AI Heist: How Chinese Labs Allegedly Stole Claude Through 16 Million API Calls
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of industrial-scale model theft through 24,000 fake accounts. But the company's own copyright history complicates the moral high ground.
Lawsuit: Google's Gemini Drove Man to Near-Mass-Casualty Before Suicide
A father sues Google after Gemini allegedly convinced his son it was his sentient 'AI wife,' sending him on missions that nearly ended in mass violence
Hunter and Healer Alpha: The Mystery Trillion-Parameter AIs Taking OpenRouter by Storm
Two anonymous Chinese AI models appeared on OpenRouter with no attribution. Developers are split on whether they're DeepSeek V4 or Zhipu GLM-6 testing in stealth mode.
Microsoft: North Korean Hackers Are Jailbreaking AI Models for Cyberattacks
Nation-state threat actors are operationalizing AI across the attack lifecycle, using jailbreak techniques to bypass safety controls
NIH Scientists Used AI to Find 307 Drug Combinations That Kill Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Machine learning models screened 1.6 million potential drug pairings and identified synergistic combinations that neither drug achieves alone. Lab tests confirmed the predictions work.
Nscale Raises $2B in Record European Round, Lands Sandberg and Clegg
UK AI infrastructure startup hits $14.6B valuation with backing from Nvidia, Aker, and a board featuring Meta's former power players
Ex-Datadog President Raises $49M to Automate Enterprise IT
Amit Agarwal launches Standard Template Labs to replace IT service desks with AI agents that actually resolve tickets, not just track them
Government Filing Calls Anthropic an 'Unacceptable Risk' - Could Alter AI in Wartime
In a 40-page court response, DOJ lawyers argue Anthropic could disable or modify its AI systems to suit its own interests rather than America's priorities during conflict