What the newsrooms are covering

SpaceX Rocket Crashes Moon

On August 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage crashed into the Moon's surface, creating a crater. NASA released new images of the impact site on Tuesday, captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) between August 11 and 12…

Data Center Competition Heats Up

Silicon Valley is facing unprecedented opposition to its data center projects, which has already blocked or delayed $64 billion in investments between May 2024 and March 2025. Despite its success in winning consumer loyalty with products…

Landing Gear Failure Incident

A US pilot successfully landed a private jet at an airport in Ohio on August 19, 2026, despite a critical issue with the aircraft's landing gear. The front wheels of the plane failed to deploy, but the pilot was able to bring the jet down…

AI Generated Images

The tools used by developers are improving rapidly, making it harder to distinguish between real and AI-generated images. This is particularly concerning because anyone with an internet connection can create photorealistic images in…

Chinese Robot Outruns Human

A Chinese robotics company called Unitree has developed a robot it's calling "Superman," which is capable of jumping extremely high - over 6.5 feet vertically. In a video shared by the company, the robot is shown moving at incredible…

Scottish Autonomous Aircraft Project

Kanav Jain, a 17-year-old student from Broxburn, Scotland, has been awarded the title of UK Young Engineer of the Year for designing an affordable autonomous aircraft to deliver medicines to remote communities. His project, called AeroAid…

LLM Wiki Impact

Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher, tweeted in early April that he was using Large Language Models (LLMs) to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of interest. This idea quickly went viral online, with many people…

Substack Controversy

Scott Alexander, author of Astral Codex Ten, is expressing his disinterest in the current debate about the existence of God on Substack, which has seen a resurgence in online atheism discussions. This debate echoes those from the early…

Teen Safety Features Rollout

Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, has introduced a feature that alerts parents globally when their teenager repeatedly searches for terms related to suicide or self-harm on the platform. This feature was made available worldwide on…

AI Job Displacement Risks

A group of over 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates, including executives from companies like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, have signed a statement warning that artificial intelligence could lead to significant job losses…

The Future of To Do Apps

Casey Newton, host of the Platformer podcast, is exploring how AI affects jobs. To start this conversation, he talks to David Pierce, a tech productivity expert who has tried 200 different to-do apps in his search for effective tools. As…

Open Thread

Scott Alexander is advertising for a Chief Operating Officer (COO) or operational co-founder position at an AI safety organization called Resolution. This organization is working on combining automated alignment research with deep…