Alan Shimel

Not long ago I wrote that when Yann LeCun, often […]

Silicon Valley competitors rarely defend each other. So when engineers […]

For thousands of years humans searched for immortality in religion and faith. Now a new wave of AI startups is exploring something different: A digital afterlife. If machines can someday become conscious, could humans eventually become software?

AI may not trigger mass layoffs in the near term. The early disruption may show up somewhere quieter: Companies simply stop hiring the junior workers who once formed the first rung of the white-collar career ladder.

Before debating whether artificial intelligence might be conscious, we should probably admit something uncomfortable. Science still cannot clearly explain consciousness in humans.

While Big Tech pours more than $100 billion a quarter into AI data centers, Apple’s infrastructure spending has actually declined. Yet Macs and iPhones are quietly becoming some of the most practical machines for running AI locally.

A wrongful-death lawsuit involving Google’s Gemini chatbot highlights a growing dilemma for the AI industry: As conversational AI becomes more human-like and emotionally persuasive, do the companies building these systems have a responsibility to intervene when users show signs of self-harm or violence?

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful […]

The Anthropic/Pentagon standoff, and a country launching a war on […]

Anthropic built its brand on ethical AI. The Pentagon builds weapons and wins wars. Now those two worldviews are colliding over how Claude can be used inside classified military systems. When “lawful” and “responsible” stop meaning the same thing, the fight isn’t just contractual — it’s philosophical, strategic and very real.