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Last week, M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything became the first sci-fi novel to win the Booker Prize. It follows Phillip Tennent, a beachcomber who fishes a dangerous artifact out of the ocean. With so much attention on the novel thanks to the awards publicity, naturally, inquiring minds want to know if there’s a film adaptation in the works. When Deadline asked the 81-year-old British author about a potential adaptation, Harrison responded, “We do ha

Americans’ hatred towards AI data centers is big business for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. San Francisco-based tech startup Together AI announced on Monday that it’s partnering with Humain, the Saudi Arabian AI company founded last year by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The deal will give Together AI access to 250 megawatts of electricity from data centers located inside Saudi Arabia. It’s the Kingdom’s latest move to cement itself as an epicenter for t

According to the popular narrative right now, Google is behind when it comes to AI models. In the popular imagination, it finished at the top of the pile last year, and then got steamrolled by “agents” when platforms like OpenClaw made token-guzzling agentic coding into the AI trend of 2026. So if you’ve been waiting for Google DeepMind to pivot to coding, like OpenAI did in March, that’s now on the verge of happening, according to an anonymously-sourced s

AI models are notoriously likened to black boxes, meaning the humans who build them can’t look inside to see how they transform mountains of training data into lines of code, sonnets, or whatever else they’re asked to generate. Not completely, anyway. A subfield called interpretability research has blossomed in recent years, aimed at shining various lights on how AI models “think.” One of the brightest lights is called chain-of-thought reasoning, or CoT. T

New York City is cracking down on the use of AI by roughly two-thirds of its students when schools open next week. The City’s public school system is planning to impose a one-year blanket ban on the use of generative AI to teach students through eighth grade. Companion chatbots that claim to offer emotional and mental support will be banned for all students. “Children need teachers and human connection in order to learn and grow. They need to develop skill

There’s the already irksome world of general purpose corporate jargon, and then there’s Microsoft, where dedication to saying things in a weird way borders on the religious. Add AI to the mix, and you get today’s news: According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will no longer be divided into these three passé reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes Intelligent Cloud More Personal Computing Now the org chart will have just two hip, youn