Executive summary Geopolitics: Trump threatened to bomb power and desalination plants in Iran if they do not agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after indicating that he’d be willing to walk away from the war without its reopening earlier in the week. Pakistan submitted a fresh ceasefire proposal…

Rich Sutton March 13, 2019 The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law, or rather its generalization of continued exponentially…

This is going to be a rather uncomfortable and potentially irritating blog post regarding AI. This is not a pro-AI or anti-AI blog post by any means, because I am rapidly finding that discussion to be rather pointless and my feelings on the topic relate to both. What I believe to be the…

I'm as anti-genAI as it gets. And yet, this past month, I have used generative coding to complete a project. It works. I hated making it. The Apologia Let's get this out of the way: my feelings about using generative models at all are...fraught. And if you are ready to call me a monster or a…

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Four Russian intelligence officers who had entered the Netherlands under diplomatic passports were escorted out of the country after they were found to be carrying out a cyberattack on the OPCW chemical weapons watchdog. Dutch Defense Ministry Updated at 2 p.m. ET A federal grand jury in…

The AI bubble is a symptom of our wider economic problems. It’s the last thing masking the bigger systemic issues — so they don’t show up in the macro numbers. Just on the ground. But the US bombed Iran, and Iran shut the supply lines for the world. Whoops. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel at the…

2026-03-25 The turtle's face is me looking at our industry Table of contents It's been about a year since coding agents appeared on the scene that could actually build you full projects. There were precursors like Aider and early Cursor, but they were more assistant than agent. The new generation is…

AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found. AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions, evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI, according to research…

Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel's personal emails 5 hours ago Grace Eliza Goodwinand Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu Getty Images FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account has been hacked by an Iran-linked group, the agency has confirmed. A group, known as the Handala Hack Team, shared…

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The big picture: The global helium market remains on edge as QatarEnergy's massive Ras Laffan facility – responsible for nearly a third of the world's supply – remains offline more than a week after Iranian drone strikes halted operations. The prolonged outage has highlighted vulnerabilities in the…

A group of three teenage girls, two of whom are minors, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company alleging that its Grok image generator used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material. The class-action lawsuit is the first filed by…

A South Korean gaming publisher who hatched a plan using ChatGPT to remove the heads of one of its own game studios in a bid to avoid paying US$250m has been ordered by a US court to reverse the removal. The dispute stems from South Korean game developer Krafton’s acquisition of Unknown Worlds…

Mary Van Beusekom, MS Today at 1:06 p.m. COVID-19 ilona titova / iStock Four years after infection with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 strain, up to 60% of health care workers (HCWs) in Switzerland still reported at least one COVID-19 symptom, although the number of participants dwindled over time, Swiss…

The US is experiencing a striking mix of weather extremes this March. Flooding rains in Hawaii, rare snow in Alabama, flip-flopping temperatures in the north-east and, perhaps most concerning, a severe heatwave affecting the west coast are raising questions about how strange these patterns really…

24 March 2026 Categories: Writing Updates Personal Above: A graphic showing the covers of all four books in The Way of the Wielder series. It All Ends Now Happy birthday, After the Awakening! This fourth and final book in The Way of the Wielder series has everything you can hope for in a series…

In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we…

An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it. Per an incident report, which was viewed and reported on by The Information, a Meta employee posted on an internal forum asking for help with a technical question — which…

Venture capital works by turning startup investments into dollars — eventually. It’s not their own money — it’s their investors’ money. And those investors are getting impatient for the payoff. One favourite way to exit is to go public — you do an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of your company’s…

“Vibe coding” was supposed to be chill. The former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy injected the term into the cultural lexicon in February 2025 to describe a new kind of programming, where engineers could build stuff by simply chatting with artificial intelligence models. It was software…

The U.S. labor market faced a significant setback in January 2026, with employers announcing 108,435 job cuts—the highest January total since the Great Recession in 2009. This figure represents a 118% increase from January 2025 and a 205% rise from December 2025, indicating growing corporate caution…

Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope. According to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s most respected climate scientists, and based upon a 30-year uninterrupted trendline: “We are headed for 3°C-4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species, including our…

Dear Readers, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 this week and my timeline exploded again. Same story as every model release. “Pentesters are done.” “Bug bounty is dead.” “Agentic AI changes everything.” Daniel Miessler is already calling it proof that all knowledge work is over and we need UBI by…

Google has pledged "at least" $50 million through 2030 on "projects designed to eliminate superpollutants." The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Amazon and Salesforce in the newly formed Superpollutant Action Initiative. In total, these companies have committed $100…

Training teams to use AI at work has given me a front-row seat to a new kind of professional divide. Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won’t touch it at all. But there’s a third group. They learn to work with AI critically, treat it like a bright, enthusiastic…

British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles 7 hours ago Matt Spivey AFP via Getty Images A 60-year-old British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city. UK Foreign Office officials are understood to be…

AI use among workers may boost productivity but could also lead to cognitive overload and burnout. Getty Images AI use among workers may boost productivity but could also lead to cognitive overload and burnout. Getty Images One of the great hopes for artificial intelligence—at least, among…

Oracle Layoffs: Tech major Oracle is planning to slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data centres, a new report has said. According to a report by CIO citing research published this week by investment bank TD Cowen, Oracle will also be selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from…

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence Israel used white phosphorus in residential areas of southern Lebanon earlier this month, in violation of international humanitarian law. In a new report released on Monday, the New York-based rights group said it confirmed the authenticity of seven photos…

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity,…

The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools. The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that…

Downtown San Francisco skyline. HMPV is surging in parts of the Bay Area, wastewater data shows. Vadym Terelyuk/Getty Images If you notice that your office is emptying out, chances are it’s because a respiratory virus that few people have actually heard of is circulating throughout Northern…

The U.S. military has formally designated artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk, a senior Pentagon official and a source directly familiar with the situation told CBS News, a sweeping move that could cut it off from military contracts. The Trump administration and Anthropic —…

WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. Hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs, the Labor…