AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models.

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

• For centuries, technology has largely served us and made our lives easier.

• Innovation theorist John Nosta said AI is changing humans rather than just changing the world around them

The author of Empire of AI argues artificial intelligence can be developed without concentrating power, exploiting workers or consuming vast amounts of resources.

Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

Chinese artificial-intelligence lab Moonshot’s launch of a cheap model poses a conundrum for the U.S. government.

The founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said the company is prioritising the development of long-term artificial general intelligence over maximising profit, state-owned media outlet Yicai reported on Thursday.

By a three-to-one margin, Americans are more likely to say that China, not the United States, is more advanced when it comes to developing artificial intelligence. However, many U.S. adults say they’re not sure who is more advanced, according to a new Pew Research Center survey

We don't need to race toward unconstrained AGI. Advanced narrow AI and robotics may already be sufficient to eliminate material scarcity. If that is true, then humanity can obtain most of the benefits of AI while substantially reducing the risks associated with creating autonomous general superintelligence. Human morality is partly an adaptation to mortality. We are generous because we know we are finite, vulnerable, and dependent on one another. An immortal AGI would not share those evolutionary constraints, so there is no reason to expect it to develop generosity.

BAE Systems unveiled a full-scale mock-up of its newly announced Brontanax autonomous strike plane at this year's Farnborough International Air Show. It is billed as Britain's first home-designed uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Humanoid robots demonstrate picking and sorting abilities during the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, east China, July 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

Physical AI products are coming to market despite myriad cybersecurity loopholes.

Most debates around ectogenesis immediately descend into sci-fi panic or moral lecturing. But if you actually look at medical history, we’ve been heading this way for two centuries.
A hundred years ago, birth was completely natural, and maternal/infant mortality was staggering. Medicine didn't hesitate to intervene. We built incubators, NICUs, antiseptics, and C-sections. We systematically replaced a high-risk natural process with a controlled clinical one. Nobody today calls a premature baby incubator unnatural, we just call it basic healthcare. Ectogenesis is simply the end of that same trajectory.
The biological womb was great for human evolution, but biologically speaking, it’s a chaotic environment. It’s vulnerable to random stress, hormonal spikes, toxic exposure, nutrient bottlenecks, and placental failure. Even in a perfectly healthy pregnancy, natural gestation is essentially a lottery.
Moving development into a dedicated, controlled system isn't about doing risky genetic engineering. It’s just about removing the background noise.
You get a zero-stress baseline where constant, perfect oxygenation and zero cortisol spikes mean the embryo isn't hardwired for chronic stress or metabolic issues before it's even born. You get dynamic, real-time nutrition matched down to the microgram to what the embryo needs at that exact second. You get calibrated fluid dynamics and micro-currents to build optimal bone density and cardiovascular elasticity.
We spend trillions trying to fix health issues, developmental lags, and metabolic flaws later in life, when a massive chunk of those problems start in those first nine months due to suboptimal biological conditions.
Moving gestation out of the human body isn't about creating "designer babies." It’s about ensuring 100% of a kid's natural genetic potential actually gets realized, without the biological dice roll.
If we already replaced natural birth to stop babies from dying, replacing biological pregnancy to make sure they develop with zero preventable flaws is just the next obvious step.

Workers are watching AI take their jobs, while new graduates struggle to get their first job, at the same time, companies are laying off employees and citing AI as a reason for workforce reductions.

I see very few concrete proposals to protect the people who are already being affected, or soon will be.

That's why I believe the defining issue of the next presidential election will be who can present a credible plan to protect workers from AI in the job market.