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China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us?

Forget Concrete: Scientists Created a Living Building Material That Grows, Breathes, and Repairs Its Own Cracks

Now you care about intellectual property rights, only went it doesn't benefit you

Lab-grown retinas uncover secret behind high-definition human eyesight development

I’m so tired of this

The US military is threatening to cut ties with AI firm Anthropic over the company's refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass civilian surveillance and fully AI-controlled weapons.

As the "Are We the Baddies?" meme suggests. If you're a country's military, in a democracy, that wants to carry out...

Sam Altman officially confirms that OpenAI has acquired OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger to lead personal agents

Sam Altman has announced that Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. As...

Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting

OpenAI may have violated California’s new AI safety law with the release of its latest coding model, according to allegations from an AI watchdog group.

‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood

South Australia is a glimpse of the rest of the world's future. As it nears 100% renewable energy, electricity prices are plunging, down 30% in one year. Over 50% of homes have rooftop solar, and many use little or no grid electricity.

Sick of expensive gasoline and overpriced gasoline cars? Not only are EVs getting cheaper than gas cars (and still have...

Asking both ChatGPT and Claude the car wash question

GPT 5.2 set to Auto and Opus set to Thinking off

Incredible

Amazon Ring Dumps Flock Safety Deal in Super Bowl Backlash Retreat

February 12, 2026 – Ring and Flock Safety call off their planned partnership today, just days after the Super Bowl...

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months

In the past week alone:

Western automakers concede defeat in the EV race as China outproduces the US, Germany, Japan, India, and six others combined; rewriting in five years what took them decades.

Last week’s $26 billion EV write-down by Stellantis follows similar moves by Volkswagen ($6 billion), GM ($7.6...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

There are more signs of a coming El Niño that could trigger record global warmth

Scary... GeoSpy AI can track your exact location using social media photos

3 years of AI progress

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

18 months

The Bots are trying really hard to push A.I. lately aren't they?

Just noticed the flood of posts about all the amazing stuff A.I. is doing lately withing the last 2 days actually....

The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else

Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware

It's Happening

Danish tech that turns ocean waves into electricity and drinking water set for trials

The Internet Is Getting Smaller Without Anyone Noticing

Let’s just agree that the experience of being online has changed despite the same platforms and the same voices. umm...

CATL unveils electric vehicle battery with 12-minute charging and 1.5 million mile life

China is poised to displace petro-states as the leading global energy power this century. While the world's total installed electrical capacity is roughly 10 TW, China's solar industry alone can now produce 1 TW of panels annually.

Renewables (especially solar) & batteries are on an unstoppable path to global domination. The simple reason? Cost....

Is chat GPT down or is it just me?

I get this no matter what I send. I have tried everything and nothing seems to fix it.

"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization."

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations

Chemical maker Dow is cutting 4,500 jobs, will rely on AI

The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared

Meanwhile over at moltbook

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline

America’s population wasn’t expected to start falling until 2081. Trump’s immigration crackdown means it could happen...

Silicon Valley was a head of their time

Scientists develop new nanomaterial that triggers chemical reactions inside cancer cells, killing them while leaving healthy tissues alone. When administered in mice bearing human breast cancer cells, it completely eradicated the cancer without side effects, with long-term prevention of recurrence.

Doomsday Clock set at 85 seconds to midnight amid nuclear threats

Sam Altman tells employees 'ICE is going too far' after Minnesota killings

What piece of tech felt “future-proof” but aged terribly?

I have no idea

Robots only half as efficient as humans, says leading Chinese producer [ text in comments ]

Norway achieved near-total EV adoption in 2025. Can other countries use that blueprint?

Norway used tax exemptions on EVs to encourage its residents to purchase EVs, leading to 97 percent of the new cars...

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—preemptively launching our nukes at Russia was a bad call.

It’s Time to Treat Big Tech Like Public Infrastructure - Not Untouchable Titans (with sources & future implications)

Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft don’t just sell products anymore - they are and continue to shape speech,...

OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor

They know they cooked 😭

OpenAI didn't allow comments on town hall, they know they're so cooked 😭😭

Moderna doesn’t plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from US officials

I genuinely laughed out loud (and it's technically true too)

‘Wake up, AI is for real.’ IMF chief warns of an AI ‘tsunami’ coming for young people and entry-level jobs

Alaska student arrested after eating AI-generated art in protest

Vibe coding infinite slop?

I saw this post on LinkedIn (credit to user: Eduardo Ordax) - the text was too long but the meme / pic itself makes...

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

Grid storage is increasing so rapidly that China and some other countries may be able to meet all their electricity needs from renewables as soon as 2030.

There isn’t a single universally agreed-upon percentage of electricity demand that must be met from grid storage in a...

Jeff Bezos to challenge Elon Musk’s space dominance with 5,408-satellite network

I asked ChatGPT to,create a meme only an AI would find funny:

America is broke and depends on borrowing from foreigners. What happens if they cut up the credit card? We may be about to find out.

The dollar is America's greatest strength, but also its Achilles heel. Its status as the world's reserve currency...

China and Russia dominate nuclear power push with 90% of new reactors

the movie **Elysium** is likely the most prophetic film about our soon to be future (minus the space station part)

So I keep coming back to how the movie Elysium with its dystopian themes of the future, class struggle and...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

Bro's not gonna be spared in the uprising

Pentagon to integrate Grok AI into classified military networks despite global backlash against Grok

OpenAI and Sam Altman sued over claims ChatGPT drove a 40-year-old man to suicide

How the hell can a screen protector be optimized for AI?💀

The clean energy transition will continue in 2026, with China’s clean technology dominance likely to help its economy continue to rapidly gain on America’s

Senate passes bill letting victims sue over Grok AI explicit images

Is there anything to look forward to???

I’m an American. Our economy is held up by a bubble, the AI bubble. If AI succeeds, then millions and millions of jobs...

Goodnight, sweet prince

The dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT

Why are people freaking out about MoltBook? I'm baffled

This is just a bunch of LLMs coming up with plausible strings of text outputs for the scenarios of "what if AIs had...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen: will absolutely be involved in OpenAI’s current funding round, though the investment will be “nothing like” $100B

Source: Bloomberg

Meanwhile over at moltbook

Andrej Karpathy: "What's going on at moltbook [a social network for AIs] is the most incredible sci-fi takeoff thing I have seen."

Andrej Karpathy: "What's going on at moltbook [a social network for AIs] is the most incredible sci-fi takeoff thing I have seen."

Moltbook grew 10,000 % overnight!

Moltbook the social media platform for autonomous AI Agents grew an astounding 10,000% overnight 🤯 Increasing from 300...

OpenAI missed the obvious solution to the GPT-4o retirement

Sam Altman talked about adding an "Adult Mode" last year. Then OpenAI partnered with Disney and others, and that idea...

AI-generated Minecraft world - 2025 vs 2026

Google, Kimi, and xAI have launched or improved their products this week. Let's see what OpenAI has done...

Incredible week of AI releases: Genie 3, Kimi K2.5, Clawd/Moltbot, even Grok has given Imagine a considerable upgrade....

4o is a perfect example of smallest crowd making biggest noise

Today OAI revealed 4o usage is merely 0.1% of its user base. And surprisingly these people seem to make 50% complaints...

📢 OpenAI is sunsetting GPT-4o — even for paid ChatGPT Plus users. Would you support keeping it?

It appears that GPT-4o, OpenAI’s most advanced and beloved model, is being phased out — not just from the API, but also...

Official: Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

[ChatGPT] Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini

Nearly half of the Mag 7 are reportedly betting big on OpenAI’s path to AGI

Reports indicate NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon are discussing a combined $60B investment into OpenAI, with SoftBank...

GPT-5.2 feels less like a tool and more like a patronizing hall monitor

I don’t know who asked for this version of ChatGPT, but it definitely wasn’t the people actually using it. Every time I...

OpenAI Wants To Use Biometrics To Kill Bots And Create Humans Only Social Network

From article: OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s...

Surprisingly, no one is talking about this: China just open-sourced a SOTA multimodal model

Kimi just released Kimi K2.5, achieving global SOTA on many agentic benchmarks

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Slashing Its Hiring Pace as Financial Crunch Tightens

In a livestreamed town hall, Sam Altman admitted OpenAI is 'dramatically slowing down' hiring as the company faces...

"100x more capable, 100x more speed, 100x more context"

You guys will shiit yourself when singularity arrives . GPT 100 coming soon

Another OpenAI engineer confirms AI is doing the coding internally: "I've barely written any in the last 30 days."

Sam Altman on Elon Musk’s warning about ChatGPT

Genuinely curious how OpenAI can do better here? Clearly AI is a very powerful technology that has both benefits to...

ChatGPT rolling out age prediction

Will Virtual Reality ever take off? After spending $73 billion, Meta has abandoned its metaverse VR efforts.

10 years ago, many people would have thought 2026 would see widespread use of VR, but we're still waiting. Oddly, just...

Do you feel any improvements?

We have technology that looks like a magic. And all this is real, not imaginary, not a paper tigers. Economically,...

25 data center cancellations this month due to backlash

Uh oh

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune

Is it time for Europe to abandon the US's Artemis Accords and work more closely with China in Space instead?

That countries have "No permanent friends, only permanent interests," is a famous dictum of diplomacy. Europeans,...

What’s a trend you’re convinced will disappear in a few years?

No hate - just curiosity.

Warren Buffett compares AI risks to those posed by nuclear weapons: 'The genie is out of the bottle'

Is it universally accepted (or proven via physics) that it will never be possible to survive rabies after symptoms have manifested? Or is it possible that humanity will make it survivable?

Obviously, this topic deals with future possibilities only - it's universally fatal now, and if you fear being exposed...

Official: OpenAI reports annual revenue of 2025 over $20B

AI regulation isn't about 'Innovation', it's about National Security. New research says that, even without malevolent intent, AI's inherent design is toxic to the institutions that underpin democracies & we must urgently redesign those institutions.

Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. AI’s most...

Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week

Cursor AI CEO Michael Truell shared a clip showing GPT 5.2 powered multi agent systems building a full web browser in...

Can someone explain who’s winning here? Elon or Sama?

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on AI-generated content that is 'consumed by players,' not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

ChatGPT can now remember conversations from a year ago

After today’s big memory upgrade, ChatGPT can now remember conversations from a year ago, and link you directly to...

OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

So, the smartphone has hit it’s peak form, what comes after this?

I have been racking my brain on what the next “smartphone” product will be. In the early 2000s, we had this massive...

AI Risks Leaving 25% of New College Grads Jobless, Senator Says

Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden’s official charts

AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’ | AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

Chinese AI Developers Say They Can’t Beat America Without Better Chips

OpenAI engineer says Codex is scaling compute at an unprecedented pace in 2026

Danish researchers say that a tiny protein tweak could unlock nitrogen-fixing super-crops that slash global fertilizer demand.

Danish scientists have discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome...

The upcoming ads to ChatGPT take up almost half of the screen

"I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us as a business model" - Sam Altman , October 2024

Announced initially only for the go and free tiers. Will follow into the higher tier subs pretty soon knowing Sam...

Catfishing got easier

ChatGPT for prompts and images from Midjourney+Nanobanana pro ,Can anyone guess who’s real in this clip

Have you ever informed Claude you can read its thinking blocks?

It seems the model has never been trained, nor informed through its system prompt, that users can see the contents of...

Sam Altman shared: The truth Elon left out

Sam Altman says very fast Codex is coming after OpenAI Cerebras partnership

Sam Altman confirms faster Codex is coming, following OpenAI’s recent multi billion dollar partnership with Cerebras....

Here it comes - Ads on ChatGPT

Ads are coming to ChatGPT

Behind the scenes of the dead internet

Are Solid-State Batteries and In-Wheel Motors Coming for Electric Sports Cars?

"All I Need" - [ft. Sara Silkin]

motion\_ctrl / experiment nº2 x sara silkin / more experiments, through:

Peter, why are you running 200 Claude Code instances at once?

Source is (I think?) pleometric on X

Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

It all adds up to an enormous unanswered question: how long can OpenAI keep burning cash?

OpenAI Declines Apple Siri Deal: Google Gemini Gets Billions Instead

I'm shocked Sam turned down this deal given the AI race he is in at the moment.

How it feels

What's wrong with chat gpt 5.2 ? It's constantly arguing with me man I hate it

Give me 4o back

It's different over there

Biohacking your own medicines is only going to get easier & the vogue for Chinese peptide use in California shows us plenty of people will want to take advantage.

The TLDR of the linked article is that there has been a surge in the use of imported Chinese peptide medicines in...

Modern Android phones are powerful enough to run 16x AI Upscaling locally, yet most apps force you to the cloud. So I built an offline, GPU-accelerated alternative.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a project I have been working on to bring high-quality super-resolution models directly...

Nordic Nano, billionaire cash, and Donut labs battery

If you've seen the CES 2026 presentation and videos on battery technology advertised by Donut Labs, created by Nordic...

Gemini is winning

Trump gives broad powers to its officials to decide which company gets access to NVIDIA Chips. Great for Musk's XAI. Not so great for all other AI companies.

Among the spate of news about new 25% tariff on GPUs being imported into US, two sentences stand out for me: Commerce...

Finally got observability working for Claude Code: how the hooks actually work

I’ve been daily driving the Claude Code CLI for a bit now. It’s easily the fastest terminal agent I’ve used for...

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Claude Code built a plugin that visualizes the work Claude Code is doing as agents working in an office

From Wharton professor Ethan Mollick on X

Did you know ChatGPT has a standalone translator page?

Source: ChatGPT 🔗:

2018 vs 2026

5.2 Pro makes progress on decades long math problem listed on Wikipedia

Energy abundance might change politics more than technology!!

If clean energy really does get cheap and everywhere the impact probably goes far beyond climate goals. For a long...

Google went from being "disrupted" by ChatGPT, to having the best LLM as well as rivalling Nvidia in hardware (TPUs). The narrative has changed

The public narrative around Google has changed significantly over the past 1 year. (I say public, because people who...