Tech & AI News Desk

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

AI · WIRED · AI

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

AI · TechCrunch · AI

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

AI · Google AI Blog

Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.

Powering AI is an architecture problem

AI · MIT Technology Review · AI

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the…

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

AI · Hugging Face Blog

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

AI · MIT News · AI

A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials can be adapted for their classrooms.

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

AI · Google AI Blog

Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

AI · Google AI Blog

Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rendered."

IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license

AI · Hugging Face Blog

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

AI · MIT Technology Review · AI

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most…

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AI · Google DeepMind

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

AI · Google DeepMind

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

AI · MIT News · AI

MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

AI · Google DeepMind

Introducing the Agents API

AI · OpenAI · YouTube

The Agents API brings a hosted version of the Codex harness to your applications. See how to build an agent that investigates production incidents, connects to tools through MCP, follows a runbook,…

In Harmony

AI · OpenAI · YouTube

Work directed by you. Move projects forward and turn ideas into action with ChatGPT Work.

Two blind brothers using ChatGPT to navigate life and run their nonprofit

AI · OpenAI · YouTube

Bradford and Bryan Manning have spent their lives adapting to a world built for sight. Both brothers live with Stargardt disease, which has taken much of their central vision and made everyday tasks…

I Never Thought I’d See This Happen

AI · Two Minute Papers · YouTube

❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 The Navier-Stokes solution paper is available here: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ My fluid…

Can AI help us better predict the weather?

AI · Google DeepMind · YouTube

Can artificial intelligence solve one of science’s most chaotic physics puzzles? In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Peter Battaglia, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind,…

AlphaGenome Atlas: Using AI to find disease causing variants 🧬

AI · Google DeepMind · YouTube

How do you find a single typo in a person's DNA that causes a rare disease? It is like finding a needle in a 9-billion-piece haystack. Enter AlphaGenome Atlas: a new AI-powered database charting the…

GPT-6 Astra Changes Everything

AI · Two Minute Papers · YouTube

❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Links / sources: Honey sim: search for "Variational Stokes: A Unified Pressure-Viscosity Solver for Accurate Viscous…

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501

AI · Lex Fridman · YouTube

DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501-sb See below for…

Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500

AI · Lex Fridman · YouTube

Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It's translated and…

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

TECH · The Verge

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can…

Anthropic caught scientists using Claude to further biological weapon research

TECH · Engadget

Anthropic produced an extensive collection of case studies covering the ways its current AI models have been misused.

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

TECH · The Verge

It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources…

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is over half off at under $20

TECH · The Verge

Looking to take full advantage of your 4K television, but your current streaming stick doesn’t have the right features? Through September 13th, you can grab an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K from Woot for…

Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

TECH · Ars Technica

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

TECH · Ars Technica

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

How Sound Could Make Sense of Big Data

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

In the art of transforming data into easily interpretable displays, visualization is usually the go-to option. But sight isn’t the only sense we can use to make sense of numeric…

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

TECH · Ars Technica

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process.…

The E.U.’s AI Drive Undermines Its ​Own Chip Strategy

TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing

This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press.The European Union’s push for technological sovereignty faces an uncomfortable contradiction.As the E.U. rolls out AI factories,…

Apple just Copied Microsoft’s Worst Idea - iPhone Duo, Airpods 5, iPhone 18 Pro & More

TECH · Linus Tech Tips · YouTube

Secure your business with ThreatLocker today using our link: https://www.threatlocker.com/ltt and learn more about how ThreatLocker can help your business safely integrate AI agenic tools here:…

I built the same game with Astra and Fable 5.1... only one was fun

TECH · Fireship · YouTube

Get 20% off Mobbin Pro to help your agent design UIs that actually convert - https://mobbin.com/fireship Now that Astra is actually available to use, let's see if it lives up to the hype. #coding…

Happy Alumni Demo Day!

TECH · Y Combinator · YouTube

Introducing Early Access: An Invite only program for the Enterprise

TECH · Y Combinator · YouTube

Introducing the YC Early Access Network. 4x a year, senior technology leaders get early looks at YC's enterprise AI companies and help shape their roadmaps. Invite-only, by application. Fall '26…

5 open source tools that replaced my $320/mo AI stack...

TECH · Fireship · YouTube

Get 67% off VPS hosting with Hostinger's one-click templates. Use code FIRESHIP for an extra discount - https://hostinger.com/fireship In this video we cover 5 free and open-source tools that'll help…

The jumping pegs puzzle

TECH · 3Blue1Brown · YouTube

Part of a series of monthly puzzles with MoMath.

The 64 sugar cubes puzzle

TECH · 3Blue1Brown · YouTube

See all monthly puzzles: https://momath.org/mindbenders/