They helped make Waymo go. Now they’re building AI-powered robots to solve America’s labor crisis

Bedrock Robotics is retrofitting excavators and bulldozers with autonomous tech as a faster, smarter way to build in an era of worker shortages and soaring infrastructure demand. [...]

This DARPA-backed startup banked $100 million for its energy-slashing analog chips

EnCharge AI’s first-of-its-kind chip takes an analog approach to a key bottleneck in AI computation. [...]

20 seconds to approve a military strike; 1.2 seconds to deny a health insurance claim. The human is in the AI loop. Humanity is not

The cost of hollowing out human accountability. [...]

Sanders: AI may take 100 million jobs in the next 10 years

The senator’s new job-loss report offers a scary view of the transformation that may be just around the corner. [...]

The CEO of Ciena on how AI is fueling a global subsea cable boom

Gary B. Smith breaks down how undersea infrastructure is scaling to keep up. [...]

Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives

A survey of video game developers released Tuesday indicates that a growing number of them fear artificial intelligence will have a negative impact on the industry as a whole. [...]

Snowflake thinks AI coding agents are solving the wrong problem

As coding agents stumble in production, the battle for enterprise AI is shifting to the governed data layer. [...]

Consuming news from AI shifts our opinions and reality. Here’s how

Proponents of AI regulation often cite neutral AI as a goal, but true neutrality is often unattainable. [...]

The Trump administration keeps taking stakes in chipmakers — it may come back to haunt them

These ongoing entanglements raise the question of whether the government is best positioned to help these companies prosper. [...]