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…

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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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been…

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…

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…

ChatGPT is driving a rise in reports of organised and ritual abuse, UK experts have said, as survivors of “satanic” sexual violence use the AI tool for therapy. Police say organised and ritual abuse, and “witchcraft, spirit possession and spiritual abuse” (WSPRA) against children, is under-reported…

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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…

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 —…

HEADLINES New Models from OpenAI and Google Although GPT-5.3's non-coding version didn't land last week, OpenAI's release of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a big deal for AI coding. The model serves inference at 1,000 tokens per second — roughly 15x faster than regular GPT-5.3 Codex — but comes with real…

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Markets |Cybersecurity Cyber Stocks Slide as Anthropic Unveils Claude Security Tool Contact us:Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback:Take our Survey By February 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM UTC Updated on February 20, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTC Takeaways…

Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME. In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in…

For the millions of people across the United States who have spent the last month digging themselves out of above-average levels of snow and ice, this winter has felt especially long and harsh. But the typical winter is actually getting shorter in 80% of major US cities scrutinized by researchers,…

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