David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn’t typed a single line since March 2026.…
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White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S. review new models before sharing them with British testers
The White House wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back new AI models from the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute until U.S. agencies get to review them first.…
Top AI experts badly underestimated how fast the field is moving, study finds
Leading AI experts have consistently underestimated how fast AI is advancing, according to the Forecasting Research Institute. AI reached gold-medal level…
Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the “father of modern AI.” He’ll help lead the company’s…
Google’s Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
Google’s “Suncatcher” project aims to run AI infrastructure in orbit on solar power. A fridge-sized experimental satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX…
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next.…
Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining
Anthropic’s AI model Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA databases, doing most of the analysis on its own. The article Anthropic says…
AI performance costs are falling faster than those of any previous technology
AI is hitting a fixed benchmark performance level at a rapidly falling cost. Epoch AI measures a price decline of about 13x per year. After stripping out…
U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI agency
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced a bill on September 23 that would permanently ban the development and use of artificial…
Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year. The model is already in post-training and runs…