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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics...
Apple Home’s new security camera features cost up to $60 a month
New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of...
Everyone but Trump is worried about AI
Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention on September 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. | Alex Wong/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a...
What an AI “slowdown” could look like
Demonstrators rally during a protest outside Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco, California, on July 11, 2026. | Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today,...
What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down....
Trump throws out power plant climate pollution rules
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make...
Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2, 2026. (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Nvidia...
Valve’s virtual reality plans hit actual reality
The Steam Frame headset is here, and it may not surprise you: it was supposed to cost less than $1,059. "We set out to come out with a device that would have been far more affordable, but the global...
The best deals from Nintendo’s ‘customer appreciation’ sale
Super Mario Odyssey is among the discounted games. | Image: Nintendo As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as...
Pre-orders for the Android-based Googlebook laptops open on September 21
Gemini Intelligence is at the heart of the operating system powering Google's upcoming laptops.