Here’s Palantir CEO Alex Karp Wearing a Keffiyeh in College Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 10 September 2026 at 22:25 More recently, he’s framed the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza as a struggle of good versus evil.
Apple’s Biggest AI Advantage: It’s Not Trying to Build God Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 10 September 2026 at 21:40 While other companies warn of an impending AI-pocalypse, Apple is making the technology seem refreshingly mundane.
The Fight Over OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough Is a New Kind of Scientific Arms Race Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 9 September 2026 at 21:00 Science has always been driven by friendly competition and the free exchange of ideas. In the age of AI, it will be driven by greed.
How Much Should You Trust AI Detection Tools? Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 9 September 2026 at 13:00 Companies like Pangram and Originality.ai can help to clear up the confusion. But they’re not a silver bullet.
China Just Performed the World’s First Implant of a Commercial Brain-Computer Interface Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 16 July 2026 at 00:00 The device, called NEO, records neuronal activity and translates it to movements made by a metal glove worn by a patient.
UN Secretary General Calls for Global Ban On AI ‘Killer Robots’ Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 7 July 2026 at 21:25 Others, meanwhile, argue that the US has a moral obligation to build powerful autonomous weapons systems—lest our adversaries get there first.
Meta Is Building a Prediction Markets App to Challenge Polymarket and Kalshi Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 23 June 2026 at 21:35 The Trump family and federal prosecutors have had their eyes on the industry, too.
Bernie Sanders’ New AI Bill Would Pay Americans $1,000 a Year Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 18 June 2026 at 20:45 The senator is making the case that AI is a public resource that was built using the collective genius of humanity.
Remember Midjourney? It’s Building a Medical Scanning Device That It Says Is Faster Than an MRI Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 18 June 2026 at 16:05 The company is also opening a spa in downtown San Francisco, “with pools of golden light which softly scan your body.”
Feds’ Legal Basis for Ban on Anthropic’s Most Powerful Models Looks Increasingly Shaky Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 17 June 2026 at 21:05 Of course, whether the administration cares about the legal basis is an open question.
Estonia Is Giving AI Agents ‘Personal Identification Codes’ Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 17 June 2026 at 16:10 It’s an early experiment in adding a measure of accountability to an increasingly lawless internet.
Anthropic Accused of Misleading Users Amid Soaring AI Costs in New Lawsuit Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 15 June 2026 at 19:30 Affordability is becoming an existential problem for frontier models.
Cybersecurity Experts Are Baffled by Trump’s Ban of Anthropic’s New AI Models Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 15 June 2026 at 16:55 The quarrel between the federal government and the startup behind Fable and Mythos thickened over the weekend.
SpaceX’s Stratospheric IPO Launch Has a Couple of Heavy-Duty Stowaways Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 12 June 2026 at 21:10 Big tech says its circular dealmaking is a virtuous dealmaking. To others it looks more like a noose.
How Much Does It (Really) Cost to Use Claude Fable, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.5 Flash? Gizmodo By: Webb Wright 12 June 2026 at 15:55 As if anyone is supposed to know what a million tokens adds up to.