Dreams of Violets Tests the Promise of AI Filmmaking
An exiled filmmaker used AI to recreate Iran’s crackdown for a Tribeca audience. Ash Koosha says he spent roughly $2,000, chiefly on AI subscriptions and additional usage credits.
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Deep Dive
Longer takes on AI news, culture, and market moments — not the newsletter, not Hands On playbooks.
Recursive Self Improvement: The Race to Build AI That Improves Itself
A model that helps build its successor could change who can afford to do AI research and who gets to decide how fast it moves.
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AI’s Next Building Boom Has to Get Past the Voters
The next wave of data centers will depend on whether developers can win local acceptance, deliver credible benefits and pay the infrastructure costs their projects create.
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How AI Could Influence the Outcome of the 2026 Midterm Elections
AI can change what voters believe, whether they cast a ballot, and how they interpret the results. Proving that it changed who won will be considerably harder.
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Anthropic Releases Amended S-1: Explosive Growth—and a Harder Business to Value
Third-quarter revenue reached nearly $17 billion. The challenge for investors is deciding how much of that growth can become durable profit.
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Was AI Behind the Binance Heist
North Korea is the leading suspect while the role of artificial intelligence remains unproven
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Is Anthropic's Growth Already Slowing? The Bear Case the S-1 Leaves Out
Q3 revenue reportedly hit $16.8 billion. Slower growth and weaker revenue per dollar of compute are why it may still disappoint IPO investors.
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China's Open Models Just Caught the Frontier. Who Pays for That?
Kimi closes the coding gap. DeepSeek drives down the price. Who keeps the value?
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Inside Anthropic's IPO Filing
Extraordinary growth, a misleading loss headline, and the price of building frontier AI
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Flapping Airplanes and the Business of More Efficient AI
How a young research lab raised more than a billion dollars to rethink AI training and why its founders matter to the bet
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Open Models and Frontier AI Valuations
Muse Spark Open and the outlook for the Anthropic IPO
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The AI Campus Experiment
What students actually learn when the answers come easily
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Could the AI Boom End Like the Dot-Com Bubble?
Real profits support the boom but rising debt and enormous spending commitments leave investors exposed
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How Dartmouth Became the Birthplace of AI
A modest grant and an ambitious summer gathering helped establish a field whose hardest questions remain unsettled seventy years later
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Local AI, Big Tech Wants AI on Your Computer
Microsoft and Nvidia are bringing more AI work onto personal computers. The promise of greater control comes with a new calculation about cost, privacy and who keeps the system running.
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The Next AI Battle Is Over Your Financial Life
Range has raised more than $100 million and says it has crossed $1 billion in assets under management. Its bigger ambition shows how AI is pushing into businesses built on expertise, recurring fees, and personal trust.
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Meta Connect 2026: The AI Assistant Is Moving Out of Your Phone
New Ray-Bans, a pocket companion, lightweight VR glasses, and a more capable Muse reveal Meta’s plan for everyday AI. Here is what was announced, when it arrives, and what deserves a closer look.
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Your Professor Uses AI. You Can’t. Where Should Colleges Draw the Line?
Different rules for students and faculty can be justified. Different levels of honesty cannot.
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Seven AI Doomsday Scenarios and the Case Against Each
Warnings about runaway AI are making headlines again. Seven recurring scenarios explain what people fear, what evidence supports those concerns, and where the arguments become less certain.
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Scammers have an AI assistant, too
AI is making fraud cheaper to run, easier to personalize and harder to spot. Here are the identities scammers borrow — and how to check who’s really contacting you.
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NASA and IBM Use AI to Help Scientists Hunt for Lunar Ice
An open research model combines years of lunar observations to help researchers identify promising places to look.
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Astra is live: Six prompts to try first
A quick-hits briefing for the GPT-6 Astra rollout — what just opened, who gets it, and six prompts worth running the moment it appears in your picker.
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TIME left Jensen Huang off its AI 100. Credibility check?
TIME’s 2026 TIME100 AI list skips Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after three straight years on it. Paris Hilton and Bernie Sanders made the cut. Has the list lost the plot?
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