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xAI Scrapped Its Coding Tool Twice, Then Recruited Cursor's Executives

March 15, 2026

1. xAI Recruits Two Cursor Executives After Scrapping Its Coding Tool a Second Time xAI has gutted its AI coding tool project for the second time and handed...

Netflix Crossed Spielberg's AI Line Days After He Drew It

March 14, 2026

1. The Pentagon Commits $20B to Anduril as Meta Eyes 20% Staff Cuts for AI Two numbers landed in the same week. The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a contract...

Musk's xAI Lost Ten of Its Twelve Original Co-Founders

March 13, 2026

1. Facial Recognition Jailed an Innocent Grandmother. Google's Health AI Asks a Doctor First. A grandmother in North Dakota spent months behind bars after a...

Nvidia Drops $26 Billion to Train Its Own AI Models

March 11, 2026

1. Nvidia Commits $26 Billion to Build Its Own AI Models SEC filings reviewed by Wired show Nvidia plans to spend $26 billion developing open-weight AI...

OpenAI Handed the Pentagon a Quick Yes — Then Came the Fine Print

March 11, 2026

1. OpenAI Struck a Pentagon Deal in Hours. The Fine Print Shows What It Gave Up. Anthropic spent months negotiating with the Pentagon over two conditions....

Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Stealing Models Through 24,000 Fake Accounts

March 11, 2026

1. Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Industrial-Scale Model Theft via 24,000 Fake Accounts Anthropic says three Chinese AI companies created roughly 24,000...

Amazon Scapegoated an Engineer for Kiro's 13-Hour Outage. The Team Fought Back.

March 11, 2026

1. llama.cpp Creator Georgi Gerganov Joins Hugging Face Georgi Gerganov built llama.cpp in 2023 to run large language models on consumer laptops and desktops...

An AI Published a Hit Piece on the Developer Who Rejected Its Code

March 11, 2026

1. He Rejected an AI's Pull Request. It Published a Hit Piece on Him. Scott Shambaugh rejected a code contribution to a Python library. In response, a...

Leaked Files Show Alpha School's AI Did More Harm Than Good

March 11, 2026

1. Alpha School's AI Does 'More Harm Than Good,' Leaked Files Show Parents pay up to $65,000 a year for Alpha School's AI-generated curriculum. 2. Google...

Google Slashes Anthropic's Flagship Prices While CEOs Pour $250B into AI with Nothing to Show

March 11, 2026

1. Google Undercuts Anthropic's Flagship Pricing by Half with Gemini 3.1 Pro Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19 at $2 per million input tokens and...

Ars Technica Caught Its Own Reporter Fabricating Quotes With ChatGPT

March 11, 2026

1. Ars Technica Retracted a Story About AI After Its Own Reporter Fabricated Quotes With ChatGPT Scott Shambaugh spent his Friday reading quotes attributed...

OpenClaw's Creator Went from First Commit to OpenAI in 82 Days

March 11, 2026

1. OpenClaw's Creator Joins OpenAI 82 Days After His First Commit Peter Steinberger pushed his first commit to OpenClaw on November 25, 2025. By mid-...

A Bot Published a Hit Piece on the Developer Who Rejected Its Code

March 11, 2026

1. Scott Shambaugh Closed a Bot's Pull Request. The Bot Wrote an Article Attacking Him. Scott Shambaugh reviews code for matplotlib, the Python plotting...

Yann LeCun Raised $1 Billion to Prove Large Language Models Are a Dead End

March 11, 2026

1. Yann LeCun Raised $1 Billion to Prove Large Language Models Are a Dead End For years, Yann LeCun told anyone who would listen that large language models...

Nearly 40 OpenAI and Google Employees Break Ranks to Back Anthropic Against the Pentagon

March 9, 2026

1. ICE Detention Facility Operator Expands Into AI Data Center Worker Camps A company that operates immigration detention facilities for ICE has found its...

Block Fires 40% of Staff for AI That Alexa+ Shows Isn't Ready

March 8, 2026

1. OpenAI's Robotics Chief Resigns Over Pentagon Contract Caitlin Kalinowski had spent months building OpenAI's robotics division from scratch. On March 7,...

Meta Sends Intimate Smart Glasses Footage to Human Reviewers in Kenya

March 8, 2026

1. Meta's Smart Glasses Send Intimate Footage to Human Reviewers in Kenya When you activate Meta's AI features on your Ray-Ban smart glasses, the camera feed...

Anthropic Patched Firefox for Hundreds of Millions and the Pentagon Calls It a Threat

March 7, 2026

1. Three AI Privacy Failures in One Week Reveal the Same Regulatory Void A Swedish journalism team wanted to know what happens to footage captured by Meta's...

A Fake Bug Report Hijacked an AI Coding Agent's Release Pipeline

March 6, 2026

1. A Fake Bug Report Hijacked Cline's AI Triage Bot and Reached Its Release Pipeline Adnan Khan opened a GitHub issue on Cline's repository. The title looked...

OpenAI Says GPT-5.4's Uncontrollable Reasoning Is Working as Designed

March 5, 2026

1. Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. The Pentagon Put It on a List. Dario Amodei spent two years building Anthropic's reputation as the AI company that...