The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Coverage of American AI innovation, US tech policy, hyperscale data center investments, and Silicon Valley developments.
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.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei call for a slower pace of frontier AI development, as OpenAI rules out a 2026 IPO amid mounting safety concerns and questions emerge over Anthropic’s planned listing.
The framework bans the use of covered data for AI training and its sale, while requiring human oversight. AFT President Randi Weingarten said she hopes other AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, will also sign on, with discussions already underway.
USIBC President Atul Keshap says semiconductors are central to the next phase of US-India technology cooperation, spanning trusted supply chains, critical minerals and advanced electronics.
More than 100 Poolside employees, including engineers, are expected to join NVIDIA and contribute to its Nemotron open-weight AI models.
Anthropic’s policy paper warning of Chinese AI parity by 2028 was published hours before the US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms, as President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in China.
