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OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

BEIJING — Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.

Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.

90% of executives say AI hasn't boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs

Business leaders and investors face a deepening paradox: Companies are pouring more money into artificial intelligence than ever, but they’re not seeing the gains in productivity that they expect.

TikTok settles children's privacy suit with DOJ for $400 million

TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.

An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

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AI's Three-Body Problem: no single force can dictate the outcome

Two celestial bodies orbiting each other trace stable, predictable paths. Add a third, and the system turns chaotic: each body is large enough to bend the others’ paths, and a small nudge by one can swing the trajectory of all three. That is how I have come to see the AI economy in 2026 — as three bodies pulling on one another: the closed-source frontier labs, led by OpenAI and Anthropic; open-weight models, mostly out of China; and the application companies built on top of both. Each is powerful enough to reshape the others’ orbit, but none can dictate where the system finally settles.

This CEO was out at dinner when he caught his AI agent wasting $1,000 in tokens. He says 'insecurity' is a bigger problem

Branden Jenkins was out to dinner when he pulled out his phone, glanced at his AI usage dashboard, and realized his weekend coding session had just cost him $1,000 — charged automatically, in $1,000 increments, to a card set on auto-renew.

My AI agent got me banned from Resy. Another agent got me reinstated.

Brian Distelburger set up an AI agent to land a reservation at New York's 4 Charles. He was quickly banned from Resy after his account got flagged.

Stripe president says checkout pages ‘will go away’ as AI commerce expands

Stripe president Will Gaybrick isn't sure what full agentic commerce looks like, but even the least ambitious future doesn't have checkout pages.

The veteran Fortune 500 CEO who turned an 80-year-old AC company into an AI darling

If asked to name the top-performing stocks powered by the AI boom, most investors would probably guess Nvidia (correct), maybe Meta (wrong) and a bunch of other hyperscalers (also wrong). You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would answer Vertiv, an 80-year-old AC maker. But since Vertiv went public in early 2021, its market cap has exploded almost 10x from under $11 billion to $109 billion. Over that six-and-a-half year span, its annualized return of 50.5% stands third in the S&P 500, exceeded only by Comfort Systems (55.2%) and Nvidia (54.9%).

After 60 years underground, now powering the cloud: Ormat's AI pivot

For 60 years, Ormat Technologies strategically built geothermal power plants where nature allows—over underground reservoirs of high-pressure water or steam—including around the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire” from Asia to the Americas. Doing so made Ormat the largest geothermal operator in the world.