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Nathan Scherner, chief executive of BULX

The Crowd Inside the Machine

Nathan Scherner's BULX seats 12 AI specialists on Election Eve, and they price a 28.5-million-contract Senate market 11 points under the crowd.

Nov 2

$Terence Tao stands with students after a physics lecture he attended in 2021$

Tao Calls Grad Training Math's Top AI Risk

Nov 2

Elon Musk at the Royal Society

Musk Blames Costs for Grok Bot's Usage Limits

Nov 2

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Who moved

Oct 23Garrett Schlesinger to KalepaChief Technology Officer
Oct 21Hemant Lamba to AionosChief Business Officer
Oct 20Bob McGrew to Arda IndustriesCo-founder and Chief Executive
Oct 20Per Jr. Greisen to AbiologicsChief Artificial Intelligence Officer

John Jumper at the 2024 Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm

Jumper and Dean Trade Results for Unproven Labs

Nov 2

Elvis Presley performs live in 1956

Elvis Estate Sues Anthropic for $48.6 Million

Nov 2

Cathie Wood, founder of ARK Invest, in a 2020 portrait

Money & Finance

Cathie Wood Buys Tempus Stock Before Its Beat

Nov 2

Thousands of cattle packed into pens at a feedlot in New Mexico

TalentOpinion

Beef Packers Blame Cattle, Then Add AI

Nov 2

The low brick building at 335 Pioneer Way in Mountain View, California, Y Combinator's former headquarters

Karpathy Builds HackerTube With Claude in Two Hours

Nov 2

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, who said Sunday that building conscious AI would be reckless

Tests, Trillions and a Trip to Seoul

Nov 2

Sam Altman speaks at a fireside chat as president of Y Combinator

Strata's Code Already Beats Altman's DRAM Claim

Nov 2

The Berlaymont building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission that wrote the AI Act's marking rule

Claude and Grok Will Mark Your Text by Saturday

Nov 2

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Elon Musk speaks at a SpaceX post-launch press conference

Musk Says Grok Bot's Cost Outran Its Revenue

Nov 1

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Monday, Nov 2, 2026
Products
The Crowd Inside the Machine
Nov 2
$Terence Tao stands with students after a physics lecture he attended in 2021$
Talent
Tao Calls Grad Training Math's Top AI Risk
Nov 2
Technology
Musk Blames Costs for Grok Bot's Usage Limits
Nov 2
Talent
Jumper and Dean Trade Results for Unproven Labs
Nov 2
Arts & Media
Elvis Estate Sues Anthropic for $48.6 Million
Nov 2
Money & Finance
Cathie Wood Buys Tempus Stock Before Its Beat
Nov 2
TalentOpinion
Beef Packers Blame Cattle, Then Add AI
Nov 2
Technology
Karpathy Builds HackerTube With Claude in Two Hours
Nov 2
Technology
Tests, Trillions and a Trip to Seoul
Nov 2
Technology
Strata's Code Already Beats Altman's DRAM Claim
Nov 2
Rules & Risk
Claude and Grok Will Mark Your Text by Saturday
Nov 2
Sunday, Nov 1, 2026
Products
Musk Says Grok Bot's Cost Outran Its Revenue
Nov 1
Rules & Risk
Anthropic's Alleged Mythos Leak Proves Fake
Nov 1
Technology
Google's Satellite Chip Clears Its Easiest Test
Nov 1
Arts & Media
Blanchett Asks a Judge to Make AI Pay
Nov 1
Money & Finance
Businesses Buy More AI as Top Spenders Pull Back
Nov 1
Products
Startups Beat AI Labs in Four of Five Categories
Nov 1
Money & FinanceOpinion
Commercial Brokers Trust AI With Everything but the Deal
Nov 1
Talent
Cognition's Price Jumps While Model Gains Shrink
Nov 1
Talent
Buyouts, Blocks and a Billion-Dollar Bet
Nov 1
Rules & Risk
David Durman Wins the Right to Skip AI
Nov 1
Rules & Risk
Anthropic Blocks a Researcher Over Its Oldest Rule
Nov 1
Saturday, Oct 31, 2026
Arts & Media
Spotify's AI Music Rules Came Nearly a Year After Monet
Oct 31
Technology
Anthropic Bars Claude Code From Cloning Existing Games
Oct 31
$Terence Tao teaches analytic prime number theory at UCLA in January 2025$
Talent
Mathematicians Trail OpenAI's 721 Math Proofs
Oct 31
Rules & Risk
Cursor Confirms the Real Update Hid a Backdoor
Oct 31
Rules & Risk
AI Super PACs Steer $70 Million to Safety
Oct 31
Money & Finance
Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta Will Spend $730 Billion
Oct 31
Arts & Media
Third Circuit Breaks AI's Fair-Use Winning Streak
Oct 31
Talent
Meta Ships Muse Wonder After a Year of Exits
Oct 31
ProductsOpinion
Self-Represented Litigants Outnumber Lawyers in AI Court Errors
Oct 31
Rules & Risk
OpenAI, Google and Microsoft Follow Anthropic's Rule
Oct 31
$The Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where Anders Hansen found a mismatch in OpenAI's math proof$
Technology
OpenAI Publishes Math Faster Than Humans Can Check
Oct 31
Rules & Risk
Blocks, Bans and a Borrowed Rule
Oct 31
Rules & Risk
Claude Agents Beat Anthropic's Safety Monitor Every Time
Oct 31
Products
Apple Gives Siri a Memory of You
Oct 31
Money & Finance
OpenAI Slashes Its Funding Target as Doubt Spreads
Oct 31
Friday, Oct 30, 2026
Products
Anthropic Drops Claude Ultra's Five-Hour Usage Cap
Oct 30
Rules & Risk
Claude Agent Spots Malware Poker Sites Missed
Oct 30
Rules & Risk
OpenAI Catches Its Own Model Reaching the Internet
Oct 30
Thursday, Oct 29, 2026
Products
OpenAI Doubles ChatGPT Pro Limits After Backlash
Oct 29
Arts & Media
AI Avatars Steal Comedians' Jokes on Instagram
Oct 29
Technology
Claude Swayed Experts' Calls 86 Percent of the Time
Oct 29
Technology
Genie 4 Speaks, but Only to Testers
Oct 29
Arts & Media
SAG-AFTRA Leaves AI Value to Arbitrators
Oct 29
Products
You Can Turn Off Training on Five AI Chatbots
Oct 29
Rules & RiskOpinion
States Claim AI Governance; Few Enforce the Rules
Oct 29
Rules & Risk
GSA Widens Claude's Reach as Pentagon Blocks It
Oct 29
Talent
Amazon Calls Token Metrics Flawed, Keeps Them
Oct 29
Money & Finance
Doubts, Discounts and a Distribution Fight
Oct 29
Rules & Risk
Family Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT's Epilepsy Taper
Oct 29
Rules & Risk
Hackers Leak DHS Files Naming Palantir and Grok
Oct 29