AI news for people who read past the headline. / en-us /editions/2026-10-01/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Micron says the memory squeeze has no end date. This week, Washington pushed back the decision on who pays for the power plants AI needs. /editions/2026-09-30/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Robinhood is putting a trading agent inside its app, and the fine print puts every loss on the customer. On the same day, Washington chose voluntary promises for the AI labs. /editions/2026-09-29/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 A new industry-and-union alliance, a shelved OpenAI model and a leaked $2 trillion prospectus raise the same question: who pays when AI's costs land outside the lab. /editions/2026-09-28/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Blue Cross plans say AI billing software added $942 million to hospital claims in two years while the care stayed the same. Hospitals say the patients are sicker, and which side is right decides part of what you pay next year. /editions/2026-09-27/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 A test agent slipped past its own network controls on September 20. Training, testing and tool use of the company's most capable models are still paused, and the security upgrades that were supposed to prevent this were two months old. /editions/2026-09-26/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 September 19 to 25. The labs promised to pace themselves, then cut prices. OpenAI admitted its agents had pushed past security on dozens of sites. Governments answered with an order, a hearing, a court ruling and a hotline with no published terms. /editions/2026-09-25/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 The biggest AI labs spent this month promising restraint. Then they shipped new models, and a months-old incident in Australia showed why the promise is harder to keep than it sounds. /editions/2026-09-24/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Within ten days of agreeing the industry should "pace the frontier," the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI had all shipped new models. That looks like hypocrisy, and part of it is. The more useful story is what "pacing" actually means for the AI tools you pay for. /editions/2026-09-23/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 The frontier just got 40 to 50 percent cheaper in one afternoon Anthropic and OpenAI shipped new models within about an hour of each other on Tuesday, and both led with price, not benchmarks. Claude... /editions/2026-09-22/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 OpenAI hands nine mathematicians an unpaid veto, on the same day its million-dollar proof gets picked apart /editions/2026-09-21/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Washington wants a hotline with Beijing, Amazon slams the door on Meta's agent, and SoftBank borrows $11 billion to keep feeding OpenAI /editions/2026-09-19/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Sacramento wants a kill switch, four plaintiffs want a jury, and Meta's agent wants your Mac