Reporting revisits comments made by leading AI company founders, including figures behind OpenAI and Anthropic, who warned of existential risks from artificial intelligence even as they built their firms. These statements, made years before recent viral discussions, framed advanced AI as a potential threat to humanity while the same executives pursued its development. The resurfacing of these quotes has fueled renewed scrutiny of the tension between AI leaders' public warnings and their commercial ambitions.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-19
Smart locks replace either a full deadbolt or just its indoor thumb turn, connecting to home Wi-Fi so owners can lock, unlock and monitor doors remotely via a smartphone app. Many models add features like keypads, fingerprint readers, temporary guest passcodes and real-time lock-status alerts.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-19
A tech commentator argues that while Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft are aggressively pushing users toward passkeys, the technology trades one security risk for another. Passkeys eliminate phishing by binding logins to a specific site, but because they can't be backed up or transferred between hardware keys, users face a higher chance of losing access entirely if devices are lost or accounts are banned.
hawksley.dev
· 2026-09-18
WIRED is hosting a subscriber-only livestream on September 24 examining the state of women in Silicon Valley amid a broader backlash against DEI initiatives. The panel, featuring Sandra Upson, Lauren Goode, and Ej Dickson, will address reader-submitted questions about gender dynamics in tech workplaces. WIRED is soliciting questions via its comment section ahead of the event.
wired.com
· 2026-09-18
Natasha Singer's book 'Coding Kids' traces how Code.org and its founder Hadi Partovi convinced schools that coding was essential to economic survival, paving the way for tech companies to influence curricula. In an interview with The 74, Singer argues today's AI push by Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google into classrooms mirrors that earlier coding campaign, despite growing public distrust of Big Tech.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-18
While many tech firms cite AI code-generation as reason to cut entry-level hiring, one company says it is increasing its junior engineer headcount instead. The company argues that AI tools handle routine coding tasks but cannot substitute for the on-the-job learning that turns junior developers into engineers with real judgment and intuition.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
A cybersecurity commentator argues that AI has degraded professional discourse and daily work life, citing a flood of unqualified 'AI experts,' formulaic LinkedIn-style writing, and colleagues who now act as mere conduits for chatbot output. The piece also accuses major AI companies of exploiting intellectual property, enabling harmful content generation, and supporting military targeting systems while using anthropomorphic language to dodge accountability for security failures.
netmeister.org
· 2026-09-17
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a remedies order requiring Google to make its ad-tech products interoperable with rival platforms, share more auction data with publishers, and accept an internal compliance monitor. The ruling stops short of the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell off parts of its advertising technology business, despite Brinkema's earlier finding that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in the ad-tech market.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-17
Stanford researchers who previously showed human brain organoids could survive and function inside baby mice have now genetically engineered mice so their own brains don't fully develop, allowing human tissue to fill the gap more extensively. The approach aims to create better models for studying brain injury and development, while forcing the team to set explicit ethical limits on how far the chimeric brain research should go.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-17
MIT Technology Review's latest list of under-35 innovators highlights researchers and founders working on climate tech, including Jae-Won Chung's software for measuring AI models' energy consumption, Jing Wei's AI-based pollution tracking, and Zhonghua Zheng's city-specific climate models. The list also features Mohammad Alkhadra of Lithios and Benjamin Mowbray of Rock Zero, two startups developing faster, cheaper methods to extract lithium from brine and hardrock ore respectively.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-17
Snap has given hands-on access to its latest Specs augmented reality glasses, showcasing new AR features built into a wearable form factor. Early testers describe the device as fun and functional but note the design looks unpolished and some capabilities feel unfinished for a consumer-ready product.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-16
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2023, increasing borrowing costs for consumers just as prices for electronics, groceries and housing have been climbing for the past year and a half. Economists note that even if the Fed succeeds in slowing inflation toward its 2% target, existing price increases won't reverse, meaning consumers face a higher cost baseline going forward.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-16
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