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AI takes on great experiment in self-rule

The leading AI companies are creating a national self-governing structure.

Medical AI's Cost-Benefit Dilemma

A huge question is who medical AI tools are working for.

I visited a coworking space where startup founders with tiny teams pay $9K a month to be around each other

I visited a NYC office full of Gen Z startup founders and discovered why building a company with AI doesn't always mean wanting to work alone.

A.I. Fortunes Could Bring Critical Funds to Global Health. The Scramble Is On.

Distributing malaria medication at a health center in Maroua, Cameroon, last year. Credit...Arlette Bashizi for The New York Times

"Power is probably the forever bottleneck": Grid delays threaten the AI race.

The US power grid can't handle the AI boom.

A startup offered free pizza if its AI agent ordered it. Chaos ensued.

A startup's free pizza giveaway left some users empty-handed.

I let agents plan a WNBA finals trip (but kept my wallet to myself)

We put OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse to the test.

Cognition: What is the Devin AI Coding Agent?

Scott Wu, Co-founder and CEO of Cognition, has taken the company to a record US$48bn valuation in 2026, propelled by Devin, its autonomous AI coding agent

Can AI Data Centres & Sustainable Energy Actually Coexist?

Representatives from EPRI, GE Vernova and Schneider Electric discuss the data centre power bottleneck, energy efficiency and the liquid cooling water myth

Cisco's president said he used personal AI agents to screen through $9,000 worth of his subscriptions

One of them, which costs him $20 a month, recently saved him more than $1,000 in subscription bills.

The A.I. Data Center Backlash Has Reached a Quiet Corner of Rural England

Plans to build one of Europe’s largest data centers in Devon have been met by strong opposition from residents, as environmental concerns grow.

Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.