Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
OpenAI Is Suddenly in Trouble
February 21st, 2026Via: Cold Fusion TV: Related: AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study)
And Now… Seagate and Western Digital Sell Out of Hard Drives
February 16th, 2026Seagate’s Hard Drives Are Sold Out Through 2026 as AI Storage Boom Continues: The company’s nearline storage capacity is completely sold out through calendar 2026, with orders for 2027 opening soon and discussions already underway for 2028. Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital: Looking to buy a new […]
Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Quits: “The World Is In Peril.”
February 11th, 2026Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision. pic.twitter.com/Qe4QyAFmxL — mrinank (@MrinankSharma) February 9, 2026 In other Anthropic news… “It was ready to kill someone, wasn’t it?” “Yes.” "It was ready to kill someone, wasn't it?" "Yes." Daisy McGregor, UK policy chief […]
Elon Musk’s Latest Scheme Is a Satellite Catapult on the Moon
February 11th, 2026My guess is that Musk has read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and that we’re all being trolled. Via: Engadget: With his newfound focus on the Moon, Elon musk is making some wild new plans. In an xAI meeting with employees, Musk said the company needed to build an AI satellite factory on the […]
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
February 11th, 2026After using Notepad on Windows for about thirty years, I uninstalled it on Windows 11 because it could interact with Copilot. Even though I uninstalled Copilot, the fact that Notepad had any hook at all to it was creepy and ridiculous. I now use Notepad3, which is great. Via: TechSpot: One of the first-party Microsoft […]
When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
February 6th, 2026Via: Futurism: Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving taxis across the United States, with active services in ten major metropolitan areas. That “self-driving” may be due for some extra scrutiny, though. During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Waymo’s chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, […]
New Site Lets AI Rent Humans
February 6th, 2026I think that it’s not satire. Via: Futurism: The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched […]
SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger
February 3rd, 2026Via: Reuters: Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk’s AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok ?chatbot. The deal, first reported by Reuters last week, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the […]
Finally, Some Possibly Good News About Firefox: AI Off Switch
February 2nd, 2026With the growing hostility toward AI slop creeping into everything, Mozilla might see an opportunity here to claw back some market share after years of steady decline. With Firefox, however, one must always be waiting for the other shoe to drop… Via: Mozilla: AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from […]
SpaceX: 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center [???]
January 31st, 2026Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX is requesting to launch up to one million satellites to create a network of orbiting data centers around Earth. Late on Friday, the company filed the request with the Federal Communications Commission, describing the project as a “constellation of satellites with unprecedented computing capacity to power advanced artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models […]
