Blood in the Machine

Let’s all stand up and give a slow clap to Anthropic. After sparking a major news cycle in the tech media with its April announcement that it had built an AI model, Mythos, so powerful, so dangerous that it threatened to upend the entire civilizational order—and that it was diligently withholding the product from the public so as to protect us from it—the nation’s no...

The data center protest movement has gone nationwide. From Vermont to Oklahoma to Indiana to California, communities are organizing to halt the tech industry’s drive to build out data centers in their neighborhoods. This week, the New York state legislature

It’s been a big week for Anthropic, the tryhard “good guy” of AI; the startup that has built its brand as the “ethical” AI lab by positioning itself as an alternative to the unscrupulous OpenAI, from which Anthropic’s co-founders famously defected. That positioning, by way of some canny marketing work and disciplined brand strategy, has paid off handsomely. On Thursday, Anthr...

As AI sweeps through the American education system and US tech workers stare down the specter of mass layoffs, thousands of IT employees across the statewide University of California system have voted to unionize. They join over 6,000 tech workers already represented by University and Professional Technical Employees (UPTE), expanding the total to 8,400 workers across the bar...

When a commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida intoned that “AI is the next industrial revolution,” she was met with a chorus of thundering boos from the graduating students in attendance. The mass disapproval left the orator, Gloria Caulfield...