The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
—Stephen Hawking
Coverage of American AI innovation, US tech policy, hyperscale data center investments, and Silicon Valley developments.
The US and 16 countries have endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science, calling for greater use of super intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and transform research.
President Donald Trump is expected to name Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as his next AI czar, according to CBS News, although the White House has not officially confirmed the appointment.
The servers contained US-manufactured GPUs commonly used for Super Intelligence (SI) applications. Prosecutors allege that Lui and his co-conspirators used false paperwork and routed the equipment through Malaysia and Singapore before allegedly re-exporting it to China.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over potential risks their technologies pose to consumers. The New York Post first reported the development, citing administration officials. The FTC is preparing an industry-wide inquiry into AI developers, with the agency expected to seek information and testimony from executives at… Continue reading FTC Opens Probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and AI Labs Amid AI Agents Going Rogue
US President Donald Trump and executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia have signed a voluntary accord outlining internal controls, independent audits and board oversight for advanced AI systems.
After Jacob Coxon, Robert O’Callahan walked away from a promising AI job after concluding that his work would accelerate AI. He quit Google, saying the technology is progressing too fast, has doubts about where it is heading and wants his future work to be “unambiguously pro-human” and aligned with God’s plan.
OpenAI has proposed global technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement, covering common safeguards, capability and risk assessments, incident reporting and human oversight of automated AI research.
Investment in information-processing equipment, including data centers and computer hardware, reached $752.1 billion in Q2 2026, exceeding real private residential fixed investment at $748.0 billion, as the AI boom drives the build-out despite borrowing costs.
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an AI czar, while suggesting that Artificial Intelligence could be renamed “Superior Intelligence,” “Extreme Intelligence” or “Supreme Intelligence.”
Researchers examined more than five years of Reddit posts involving nearly 70,000 users discussing semaglutide and tirzepatide and found reports of menstrual changes and temperature-related symptoms among the main classes of symptoms identified.
