Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid
AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. History professor David Roach asks, "Was it always the case…
AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET.…
AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits
Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, with AI-generated filings often running hundreds of pages and citing fabricated…
AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure
The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building a gas-fired power plant in the…
Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit
Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations without the CEO title, and all Gemini development is moving…
IMDb Sentiment Analysis with DistilBERT LoRA, TF-IDF Baselines, Calibration, Interpretability, Robustness Testing, and Semi-Supervised Learning
This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to building a robust sentiment analysis workflow. By combining classical TF-IDF baselines with modern parameter-efficient fine-tuning (DistilBERT + LoRA), we explore deep model interpretability, calibration, and semi-supervised techniques to achieve scalable sentiment inference
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.