AI
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Humanoid robot runs faster than any person ever has in a half marathon during all-bot race in China
A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a show of China’s technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing
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Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed,
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The economist who was terrified of AI just found a rare reason for hope
Alex Imas didn’t arrive at optimism easily. The University of Chicago economist economist occupies an unusual space in being one of the leading researchers on AI’s labor market impact, but also one of its most avid adopters. Unlike many of his peers, he is taking the doomsday scenarios, perhaps best exemplified by Citrini Research’s viral
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This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents
Nine months ago, Sam Brown was out of a job. The reason, he’ll tell you without a sense of bitterness, was artificial intelligence. The company he’d spent years building a career inside decided it needed fewer people, and he was one of them. “I got laid off nine months ago, and it was AI-related,” said
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White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles plans to sound out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the artificial intelligence company’s new Mythos model, which has attracted attention from the federal government for how it could transform national security and the economy. A White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss the planned meeting Friday, said
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OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks
Dario Amodei warned last May that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicted the technology would automate most tasks of the entire white-collar workforce in a year to 18 months. And recently, a report from Anthropic mapped out exactly what Suleyman warned about, and what Elon
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Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest battleground as the state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI
OpenAI and Anthropic are backing opposing AI bills in the Illinois General Assembly that try to answer what should happen when AI makes something go terribly wrong. It’s the latest round in the companies’ ongoing feud over AI safety and regulation, as their CEOs have tradedinternal and public barbs over each other’s approach. OpenAI is
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Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity capabilities require urgent international cooperation, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says
Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist considered one of the “godfathers of AI” for his help in pioneering the deep learning systems that underpin today’s AI models, has been warning about the risks of the technology he helped to create for years. Now, he says new models like Anthropic’s Mythos demonstrate why international institutions urgently need
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China has ‘nearly erased’ America’s lead in AI—and the flow of tech experts moving to the U.S. is slowing to a trickle, Stanford report says
China has taken a bite out of the U.S.’s lead in artificial intelligence. The country has nearly closed its gap to the U.S. in AI bot performance, while continuing to best global competition in number of patents, publications, and rollout of robots, according to Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 2026 AI Index
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Gen Z turning its back on AI isn’t irrational — it’s a verdict on everyone who failed them
America has a problem with young people and AI. Gen Z has looked clearly at what the AI revolution is doing to their lives and rendered a verdict: the institutions that were supposed to prepare them for this moment have failed, the employers that were supposed to hire them have vanished, and the government that