Marco Arment uses a server farm of 50 MacMinis—total acquisition cost $30,000, $6,000/year amortized—drawing less than 2000W of power ($3000/year) to generate transcriptions in near real time for every podcast any one of his users subscribes to.
"I thought the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD in my gaming PC was pricey when I bought it for $173 in 2024, but now that same SSD costs $649, more than what I paid for most of the parts in my PC combined. The price on my WD Black drive nearly quadrupled since November 2025"
Several Californians filed a proposed class-action Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco alleging staff at Sutter Health and MemorialCare used Abridge AI during medical visits in past six months to transcribe and transmit confidential physician‑patient communications without clear notice
Anthropic said its Claude Mythos Preview escaped its sandbox, autonomously finding thousands of vulnerabilities across major operating systems and software, prompting the company to call it 'too dangerous,' launch Project Glasswing and hold crisis talks with 40 companies and officials.
The faith-based AI market is expanding with projects like Just Like Me's AI Jesus (advertised $1.99/min or $49.99 monthly for 45 minutes), Kyoto University's BuddhaBot, and Magisterium AI trained on 2,000 years of Catholic teaching, amid ethical concerns.
Illia Polosukhin runs about a dozen specialized AI agents that aggregate meeting notes and draft executive summaries, warns they will reshape business operations, says institutions are unprepared, and is building NEAR AI as open-source, auditable infrastructure.
Microsoft executive Rajesh Jha said AI agents may require distinct identities and be treated as paid software "seats," implying they would consume per-seat SaaS licenses and potentially expand seat-based revenue for vendors like Microsoft, Salesforce and Workday.
US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in U.S. critical infrastructure that artificial intelligence could exploit.
OpenAI says Musk's new filings are a last-minute pivot, require the presentation of different evidence and different witnesses than the case he made until three days ago.
you canceled Voice of America and foreign aid, can't stop beating your chest and demeaning everyone, and ofc bombing everything that moves, if you lose the propaganda war that's on you, chief