China’s neuromorphic e-skin lets humanoid robots sense pain and react

Researchers in China built a neuromorphic robotic skin that lets humanoid robots sense pain and react instantly to harm.

The Plan – 2025 Update

What’s “The Plan”? For several years now, around the end of the year, I (John) write a post on our plan for AI alignment. That plan hasn’t changed to…

Qwen-Image-2512 launches as viable open source AI image alternative to Nano Banana Pro

AI Futures Timelines and Takeoff Model: Dec 2025 Update

We’ve significantly upgraded our timelines and takeoff models! It predicts when AIs will reach key capability milestones: for example, Automated Code…

You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape

Big Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious belief in scaling.

Cleveland Clinic offers tips on ambient AI deployment, from evaluation to scale

Beth Meese, the health system's executive director of IT, digital health and enterprise EMR, offers a preview of her HIMSS26 session, which will offer an up-close perspective on how to make ambient tools work to "meaningfully reduce" clinician burden.

Everyone’s Watching Stocks. The Real Bubble Is AI Debt.

Something has changed in the artificial intelligence boom in the past year. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, America’s biggest tech companies have been leading the charge, aided by hundreds of billions of dollars on their balance sheet. Now, debt has entered the picture and the stakes are higher.

Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment

TL;DR LLMs pretrained on data about misaligned AIs themselves become less aligned. Luckily, pretraining LLMs with synthetic data about good AIs helps…

App of the Week: OpenRouter — The Universal API for All Your LLMs

One API. 300+ Models. 60+ Providers. And Why Every AI-Native Startup Needs This. We’ve featured a lot of amazing AI tools in our App of the Week series. But OpenRouter might be the most found…

Anthropic Rolls Out Its Chatbot Claude as a Chrome Extension

The OpenAI rival says the new Chrome extension, Claude for Chrome, will be able to navigate websites on your behalf, fill in forms, and complete scheduled tasks, accessing multiple tabs in the process.

I tried the new Claude in Chrome extension, and it delivered convenience with a side of digital paranoia

A virtual intern with total access to your browser history

6 Cybersecurity Predictions for the AI Economy in 2026 – SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PALO ALTO NETWORKS

Sponsor Content from Palo Alto Networks.

2025 LLM Year in Review

2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

Hochul Reaches Deal on A.I. Regulation in New York

The bill, which lawmakers passed in June, will be modified to more closely match a similar law in California, at Big Tech’s urging.

Trust Is the New Tech

AI succeeds only when people trust the system behind it. Transparency, safety, and shared purpose—not better tools—turn AI from abandoned software into real impact.

AI Could Make Intelligent People Less Smart

When people can choose between thinking or asking AI, they choose AI, even when their own thinking would work. The cognitive abilities you don't exercise may never develop.

Cursor continues acquisition Spree with Graphite deal

Graphite is an AI code review assistant that was last valued at $290 million.

WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025

In today’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.

China’s humanoid arms race: start-ups debut robots for stores, offices and factories

China’s latest venture-backed robotics contenders are unveiling ever more humanlike machines for reception desks, stores and factory floors.

The tech firm that helped police find the Brown shooting suspect has sparked privacy concerns. Its CEO responds

Flock Safety technology helped Providence Police track down 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, who police say was responsible for both the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor days later.

Investment in data centers worldwide hit record $61bn in 2025, report finds

Analysts see ‘global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing’ amid surge in demand from AI boom

Apple study shows how AI can improve low-light photos

Apple researchers have developed an AI model that recovers detail from raw sensor data that would normally be lost. Here's how they did it.