technology Epic Games Delays Disney Shooter, Orders AI-First Production: 'No More Hand-Written Code' Epic orders an AI-first rebuild of its Disney shooter Epic Games has delayed its unannounced Disney shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters and ordered the team to switch to an AI-first production model, according to a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier published Monday, October 12. The game
AI Microsoft CEO Nadella Calls for an Emergency Brake on AI Nadella says to assume the model is already compromised Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling on companies to build an emergency brake into advanced AI systems, arguing that powerful models should be treated as potential insider threats. In a post on X on Saturday, October 10, Nadella wrote that companies
AI AI Buildout Is the Biggest Investment Boom in U.S. History at $10.3 Trillion, Brookings Says The AI buildout is the biggest investment boom in U.S. history Financing the AI buildout will cost $10.3 trillion from 2025 to 2032, an average of 3.63% of U.S. GDP every year, according to a new Brookings study by Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh of Columbia University. That
AI Microsoft Exec Called AI Training "The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History" A Microsoft exec called AI training the largest theft of labor in history Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, described the training of AI models as "the largest theft of labor in human history," according to internal material cited in a newly unsealed court filing
AI AI Consultant Is Second Fastest Growing Job in the US, LinkedIn Says AI consultant and strategist is the second fastest growing U.S. role AI consultants and strategists ranked second on LinkedIn's 2026 Jobs on the Rise list for the United States, behind only AI engineers at number one. The list analyzed millions of jobs started by LinkedIn members from
Markets AI Executives Are Privately Preparing for a Public Revolt After a Catastrophic AI Event Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event — and they are planning as if one is coming in 2027. The internal exercises focus on what some executives call "the day after"
Markets AI Companies Are Privately Planning for the Day an AI Cyberattack Takes Down the Grid Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies are privately gaming out what happens the day after a catastrophic AI event. The scenario drawing the most concern: a large-scale cyberattack that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water. The internal exercises
openai OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Nears $50 Billion, $20B Below Earlier Reports, per FT OpenAI told investors annualized revenue neared $50B at end-September, about $20B below the $70B figure reported in late September, per the FT.
anthropic Being Mean to Claude Can Now Get Your Account Suspended Under Anthropic's New Rules Anthropic's updated usage policy bans "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude, with suspension or termination for extreme cases.
data centers San Francisco Moves to Pause New Data Centers With 45-Day Moratorium San Francisco is moving to temporarily block new data centers within its borders, advancing a 45-day interim zoning moratorium aimed at pausing approvals while the city writes updated rules for the AI era. What happened The Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Transportation Committee voted 3-0 on
bank of america Bank of America Says the Easy Money From the AI Trade Is Over The era of effortless gains from riding the AI spending wave is ending, according to Bank of America. Investors are likely to find it increasingly hard to make "easy money" by betting on outsized returns from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures compared with consumer-driven spending, according to
AI Musk to Rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI After Trump's "Superintelligence" Order SpaceXAI itself was created only a few months ago in July, after SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal that consolidated the two companies. Now it is getting a new name. Elon Musk confirmed on X that SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, replying "Yes, we will make
AI Bill Gates: AI Is "The Most Dangerous Thing Humans Have Ever Gone Near" "A.I. has crossed the threshold that its ability to empower a bioterrorist to kill hundreds of millions—that exists today," he said. Bill Gates made the remarks on the New York Times' Ezra Klein Show, published September 29. Two days earlier, on NBC's Meet
AI Chick-fil-A Says No to AI Drive-Thru Ordering as Rivals Lean In Chick-fil-A is bucking a growing fast-food industry trend, with CEO Andrew Cathy saying the chicken chain does not plan to use artificial intelligence to take customers' drive-thru orders. Cathy told CNBC the company wants hospitality to stay human to human. "We're not
AI WSJ: AI Speech Patterns Are Bleeding Into Real-World Meetings The Wall Street Journal reports that heavy exposure to AI-generated content is changing how people actually talk. "Humans are ingesting so much AI content that prompt language, fawning feedback and 'caveman speak' are officially bleeding into real-world meetings," the Journal wrote. The piece describes
breaking Trump: AI Is "Bigger Than the Internet" Trump: AI is bigger than the Internet. The president is all in on AI, and he just said the quiet part out loud. What He Said In a new interview, Trump described the AI industry as "the industrial revolution, but bigger" and "the internet, but much bigger.
trump Trump Reportedly Asked Grok for Its Opinion Before the Venezuela Raid That Captured Maduro The Report Time magazine's new cover story on the president reports that in December 2025, about a month before U.S. forces invaded Venezuela and seized Nicolás Maduro, President Trump held a clandestine Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk. During that meeting, Trump spent hours asking Grok questions
AI AI Billing Tools Added $942M to Healthcare Costs, BCBSA Says BCBSA says hospital AI billing tools added $942M in costs for Blue Cross plans from 2023 to 2025, with no matching rise in patient treatment. Insurers and hospital operators are both in the crosshairs.
AI Anthropic Targets $2 Trillion IPO Valuation, Would Top SpaceX Record Anthropic is targeting a $2 trillion IPO valuation per its prospectus, more than double its May mark, after 12x revenue growth and a $42B net loss in 2025.
AI Sam Altman unveils GPT-6.1 Sol at OpenAI DevDay OpenAI’s Sam Altman unveiled GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, pitching near-flagship performance at one-fifth the token price of GPT-6 Astra, plus a new Ultrafast tier and Dot agent.
AI "McDonald's is using AI to price your Big Mac," per YF Your Big Mac's price isn't set by your local franchisee. An algorithm is. McDonald's has deployed an AI pricing engine across its nearly 14,000 US restaurants and select overseas markets, according to a Reuters investigation published September 29. The system uses machine learning
AI Bill Gates has said that AI will be designed ‘by and for the richest’ without regulation Bill Gates is putting real money behind his latest warning about artificial intelligence. The Gates Foundation has pledged $1 billion over the next two years to expand AI access across developing nations, an announcement made alongside the foundation's annual Goalkeepers report. The goal is to make sure AI
AI Michael Burry: AI Bubble ‘May Burst’ Sooner Than He First Believed Michael Burry moved his AI bubble timeline forward, swapping outright shorts for near-dated puts on Micron, Nebius, Palantir, Nvidia, and the SOXX ETF, citing an Ares Management report on unsustainable AI capex.
AI Florida AG Seeks Emergency Injunction to Halt ChatGPT Development Florida AG James Uthmeier has filed for a temporary injunction to halt OpenAI from developing new ChatGPT models without independent safeguards, and to bar minors in the state from the app.
Tech MongoDB CEO CJ Desai Exits for Meta’s New Enterprise Unit; MDB Craters MongoDB CEO CJ Desai resigned effective immediately to lead Meta’s new Enterprise Platform unit under Zuckerberg. MDB shares plunged as much as 23% on the news.
