OpenAI Steps Into the Physical World, One Job Posting at a Time
The post went up on X late on a Sunday, and the tech industry spent the next day parsing it. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, announced that OpenAI Robotics was…
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
Pope Leo’s First Encyclical Takes Aim at AI’s ‘Technological Messianism’
VATICAN CITY — The word Pope Leo XIV chose was “disarm.” Presenting “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25, the pope told an audience…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates
Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…
Tesla’s Own AI Trainers Doubt Full Self-Driving, Reuters Investigation Finds
The workers who teach Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system to read the road have a close view of what it can do. Reviewing hours of footage from the eight cameras on…
CNN Sues Perplexity, Widening News Industry’s Fight Over AI Search
CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity AI, accusing the AI search company of scraping and reproducing copyrighted news content at scale, according to the complaint. The suit is…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
