Google I/O 2026 live blog: On the ground at Google’s keynote
… The AI landscape has changed quite a bit over the past few years, so the pressure is on for Google to distinguish Gemini from rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. …
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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… The pressure is now well and truly on Parikh and the CoreAI leadership team that are responsible for the future of GitHub. …
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
… The Times Guild is currently bargaining a new contract, pushing for robust protections against AI, like requirements that a human is behind any AI tool being used, that any journalism utilizing AI is transparently labeled, and that staff are compensated for AI model training deals the company might… …
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
… We first heard the next-gen Xbox codename earlier this year, and Microsoft is now promising more details about Project Helix “later this year.” I’d be surprised if we hear anything significant about Project Helix during the Xbox showcase next month, though. …
AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review
… A study published in Nature this year found that scientists who adopted AI published three times more papers and received nearly five times more citations than those who didn’t. They also became research project leaders 1.37 years earlier than those who did not use AI. …
Climate Change
… Hawkins Apr 15 “A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health.” The NAACP is suing xAI to block Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center project outside of Memphis, TN, claiming that the project is operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit and in violation of the C… …
Windows is back on the Microsoft menu
… Microsoft has been clear that it sees Windows as a home for AI agents and workloads, but it also unveiled Project Solara this week, a new platform for agent-first devices. …
AI warfare is already here
… A contractor like Anthropic setting limits on specific uses of its tech is unusual. “It’s not government-created technology in the way that the Manhattan Project was,” nor a conventional military supplier like Northrop Grumman, said Andrew Reddie, an associate research professor of public policy at… …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… And OpenAI, like all AI labs, is a money furnace. Recently, OpenAI projected that it will spend $665 billion by 2030 — $111 billion more in cash burn than it previously predicted. …
In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
… The student anger is coming to a head at a time when young people in most fields face intense pressure from the tech and business world to adopt generative AI tools — even as employers use those same tools to justify hiring freezes and mass layoffs. …