Someone bought LimeWire
Someone bought LimeWire. BabyDoge has acquired the resurrected file-sharing brand and plans to push it further into crypto, decentralized storage, and AI.
Brian Fagioli
Brian Fagioli
Microsoft rejects the race to build uncontrollable superintelligence
Microsoft AI says it rejects the race to create an all-purpose superintelligence that could escape human safeguards, laying out strict rules intended to keep future AI subordinate to people.
Trump declares war on AI guardrails
President Donald Trump is attacking calls for stronger AI guardrails, taking aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and warning that America cannot afford to lose the AI race to China.
Talos Linux takes aim at VMware with open source hypervisor
Sidero Labs is expanding Talos Linux beyond Kubernetes with native hypervisor support and standalone containers, potentially giving organizations another option as they reconsider VMware and traditional virtualization platforms.
NASA and IBM built an open source AI that could help humans live on the Moon
NASA and IBM have released an open source AI foundation model trained on massive amounts of lunar data. It could help scientists detect craters, study the Moon’s geology, and identify promising locations for water ice.
Sorry, Dario, but you cannot unring the AI bell
Dario Amodei deserves credit for urging caution on AI. But his proposed slowdown depends too much on keeping geopolitical competition under control.
Apple researchers use AI to simplify protein design
Apple researchers developed SimpleDesign an AI system that generates protein sequences and 3D structures together and could eventually help scientists design new drugs and useful proteins.
Perplexity says it trusts OpenAI GPT‑6 Astra with less human supervision
Perplexity says OpenAI GPT-6 Astra can handle software changes, testing, and production monitoring with fewer human check-ins. The safeguards remain unclear.
Linux Mint needs to stop making apps and focus on Linux
Linux Mint is adding an EPUB reader, calendar, and other software while its August update arrives on September 11. Maybe it is time to focus on the OS.
Fidji Simo left OpenAI for health reasons and two months later she joins Nscale
Fidji Simo is joining Nscale’s board just two months after leaving her full-time OpenAI role because of health concerns. The timing raises an obvious question, but Nscale itself may be the bigger story.
What are the odds AI kills us all?
AI experts have a name for the probability that artificial intelligence ends catastrophically: P doom. The estimates are frightening but the numbers may tell us as much about uncertainty as they do about AI.
Here’s how AI can actually kill us all: Anthropic warns of bioweapon risk
Forget killer robots. Anthropic says it identified scientists using Claude for research that could potentially support biological weapons development, offering a frightening look at how AI could become dangerous without ever turning against humanity.