Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI?
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to ...
AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about ...
Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts
The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of social media accounts ...
NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
John Honeycutt, chair of NASA’s Artemis II mission management team, said the decision to relax the safety limit between Artemis ...
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI ...
A beginner’s guide to Tmux: a multitasking superpower for your terminal
of the new things I’ve come across recently, while researching command-line-based coding assistants, is the mention and use of a ...
Shiba Inu (SHIB) Wakes Up With 17% Bounce After a 30% Monthly Decline
Long-term picture remains bearish Are SHIB whales ready? Shiba Inu has finally recovered from a severe correction that wiped out ...
Bitcoin Compresses Under $72K With $80K or $60K in Sight
Bitcoin price stands at $69,397, commanding a market capitalization of $1.40 trillion, with $42.58 billion in 24-hour trading volume. Over ...
The Best Samsung Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
Other Samsung Phones to Consider If you don’t see a Samsung phone mentioned in this guide, that might be because ...
The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science ...