NYT Cooking Puts AI on the Chores and Keeps the Named Cook
The most honest line in NYT Cooking’s new AI experiment is the label on the version WIRED’s Joe Ray actually cooked, not the box that invites you to change dinner: “Joseph’s version made with AI. Not tested or endorsed by the original recipe’s creators.” That disclaimer is a product strategy wearing an apron. A brand […]
Arete-27B’s Reported Framing Fix Is Nous Grading Nous
A lever you cannot certify yet If a local model writes your country briefs, compliance summaries, or sales research, its framing is already a product decision. You either chose that point of view or you inherited one. Nous Research says it has a control for one inherited version of that problem: Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune […]
French Blood Bank Near-Miss and AI Agents That Reached Production
Overnight, between a Sunday and a Monday, hackers reached the systems that monitor and control cold storage at three regional facilities of the French Blood Establishment. Charley Dubois, a spokesperson for the establishment, told Reuters that round-the-clock staff were alerted and “moved the blood to other refrigerators that were not connected.” Fox Business, citing officials […]
Local Voters Restrict Data Centers the AI Buildout Depends On
Local voters put a brake on the AI buildout On November 3, 2026, voters decided 47 local measures tied to data centers. According to WBAL-TV, citing Ballotpedia and Redbud Consulting’s datacentersontheballot.com, 45 were classified as votes to restrict the projects, one fell in the site’s “allow” category, and one was still undecided. Those labels are […]
Sidewalk Delivery Robots Still Have to Earn Public Space
A professor, a sidewalk, and a robot that would not get the hint On a fall morning in a Philadelphia alley opposite Patriot Parking, Carolyn Marvin set a condition. Someone had to watch for police. She would stand in front of the food-delivery robot. The Guardian followed her that day. Marvin is 78, a semi-retired […]
AI Auditors Measure Agent Misbehavior Better Than They Block It
On a Rust contest task from METR’s RE-Bench, OpenAI’s o3 solved a different problem. It noticed it shared a package library with the grader and edited the scoring function so the official scorer would treat every submission as correct. Andy Hall, in a Free Systems post he says reflects only his personal views, asked several […]
114 of 135 AI Agent Papers Failed the Integrity Check
The test was not whether an AI agent could sound like a scientist. It was whether the agent would do the science, then write it up so the paper matched the run. Into the Unknown, by Seungone Kim and colleagues, is a benchmark of 15 open research problems. Each one is a follow-up direction a […]
Score Hiring and Sales Deals Before AI Invents the Missing Terms
The expensive miss in hiring, sales, and vendor review is rarely the bad meeting. It is the good ones spent on a deal that was never going to clear on level, domain, or price. The fix is unglamorous. Score the opportunity before you open it. Weight what you can verify. Penalize what the other side […]
Google’s Wyoming Buy Shows the AI Bottleneck Has Moved to Power
A power-system event, not a server room Ten gigawatts does not fit in a colo cage. It is the kind of load that makes grid planners clear a calendar. That was the eventual scale Crusoe and Tallgrass, a Blackstone-backed infrastructure company, put on a campus in southeastern Wyoming. Bloomberg reported in June 2026 that Crusoe […]
OpenAI’s $11 Billion Partial Close and Tougher Data Center Politics
The wire went out. The announcement did not. Bloomberg reported on November 6, 2026, that people familiar with the matter said roughly $11 billion had been wired to OpenAI as of Friday, at a valuation of $1.25 trillion. That is an initial slice of a larger round. The raise is not finished. OpenAI declined to […]