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.