DHS Plans Experiment Running ‘Reconnaissance’ Drones Along the US-Canada Border
Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.
May 2026
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
A playbook to run an agent Build Club
This is Build Club. We’ve been running it for two months. It is the single highest-signal hour of our week, and it is genuinely easy to copy. Every Friday afternoon,…
Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
Gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company’s use of “mobile” gas turbines as power plants.
Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are
The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”:…
This is what some the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives
What would some of the world’s largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?
OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court
In Musk v. Altman, the company sought to show the jury a remarkable trophy as physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.
Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand
Fervo Energy’s IPO was upsized several times after potential investors asked why the enhanced geothermal startup wasn’t raising more money.