Biotech The cancer drug designed to let go Gotistobart's new lung-cancer data are striking. Its real test is whether molecular precision can produce a repeatable survival benefit. 14 Sep 2026 5 min read
Robotics One video can teach a robot. The whole shift is another matter. Skild and Generalist are making robots faster to teach. Their results reveal why learning a task and delivering reliable work are different engineering problems. 14 Sep 2026 5 min read
AI AI Is Helping Build Its Successors. Who Controls the Loop? AI is helping build the next AI. Inside the evidence for recursive self-improvement—and the fight over who gets to steer what happens next. 13 Sep 2026 9 min read
AI “Gambling With Our Lives”: Anthropic’s Safety Promise Under Fire Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic over the AI race. A colleague echoed his warning; Dario Amodei now proposes slower progress and independent scrutiny. 13 Sep 2026 6 min read
Robotics Musk Took Away the Steering Wheel. Now Comes the Trust Test. Two seats. No steering wheel. As Cybercab reaches paying passengers, Elon Musk’s boldest design choice puts the entire service on trial. 8 Sep 2026 4 min read
AI Fei-Fei Li’s AI Fills in the World. What Did It Invent? The ImageNet pioneer is building AI that can imagine spaces beyond a photograph. Knowing what it invented may be the crucial next step. 8 Sep 2026 3 min read
Quantum Alain Aspect Changed Physics. Now His Quantum Company Must Prove Useful. A Nobel laureate, fresh capital and a protein experiment: Pasqal’s next test is turning extraordinary physics into work that matters. 8 Sep 2026 4 min read
AI Sanders wants to ban superintelligence. Human-level AI could be caught. A new proposal would prohibit superintelligence and pause advanced AI development. Its definition reaches further than the slogan suggests. 7 Sep 2026 3 min read
Compute The AI Boom Has a Veto Problem New York, Seattle and Charlotte are putting brakes on data-center approvals. The AI boom is discovering that a construction budget cannot buy public permission. 7 Sep 2026 3 min read
Energy AI Wants the Grid. Who Pays When the Boom Walks Away? Ohio wants data centers to carry their own grid burden. The emerging rules expose the AI boom’s uncomfortable question: who pays when promised demand becomes public infrastructure? 7 Sep 2026 Follow-up 3 min read
AI AI Flagged More Methane Plumes. Which Ones Are Real? Google’s satellite model makes invisible emissions easier to investigate. Its confidence labels reveal why a striking map needs a careful reading. 7 Sep 2026 3 min read
AI What Work Should You Hand Over to GPT-6 Astra? Astra promises more capable agents. OpenAI's own deployment simulations show why the job, its permissions and the proof of completion need separate attention. 5 Sep 2026 4 min read