What an AI agent is, how it works and where it breaks
An agent is a system given a goal that then works step by step. This guide covers how an agent is assembled, what components it has, where it breaks, and how to measure its performance.
Research
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
$250 million for a data center in orbit — but the bottleneck is rockets
Starcloud is now valued at $2.3 billion. Its CEO says the hardest constraint ahead is not chips but booking launch capacity.
Companies
Opposition to data centers jumped from 42 to 75 percent in a single year
Three in four Americans now oppose a data center being built near them, a Heatmap News survey finds. A year earlier, opinion was almost evenly split.
Policy
YouTube creators who took AI money are facing their own audiences
Videos promoting Higgsfield carried no ad label. The company later confirmed the creators were paid in cash and platform credits.
Companies
ChatGPT can now read and send iMessages on a Mac — the price is full disk access
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin can search, summarize and send messages with approval. Making it work requires granting full disk access.
Products
A 112-year-old law turns on venture capital: the DOJ is investigating a16z
The Justice Department is examining a16z partners sitting on the boards of two now-competing companies, using a statute almost never applied to venture firms.
Policy
The easy way to raise a safety score: refuse everything
Methods borrowed from psychological testing show that reducing AI safety benchmarks to a single number is misleading.
Research
China's AI hub is a grassland city, and Ulanqab is running out of water
Nearly a hundred data centers have gone up in this Inner Mongolian city. Power is cheap and winters are cold, but rainfall matches Denver's.
Companies
Five GPU clouds side by side: one label, five different businesses
CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe and Groq compared on published pricing, contracted power and hardware roadmap.
Companies
The gap between written rule and model behavior: Opus 4.6 ignores its own ban
In TechCrunch's testing, an older Anthropic model produced content its usage policy explicitly forbids in ten out of ten attempts.
Safety
Nvidia is not content selling chips: now it is buying the power connection
The chipmaker has taken a stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, which brokers between utilities and data centers.
Companies
LinkedIn's 'AI slop' button has been clicked more than a million times
The platform added the button after a detector flagged 41 percent of its longform posts as fully AI generated.
Products