“All of us live in the dark, we don’t have anything better to do than build,” says Baltic hacker house organiser

“All of us live in the dark most of the year, and we don’t have anything better to do than build,” says an organiser of one of a new wave of hacker houses which have cropped up in recent months across…

AI has turbocharged coding, but stirred a slop problem of its own

Everyone’s a coder now, thanks to AI. But more code means more bugs, more vulnerabilities, and not enough engineers to catch them.

OpenAI launched a safety fellowship
OpenAI launched a safety fellowship

The OpenAI Safety Fellowship, announced on 6 April 2026, is a pilot programme for external researchers to conduct independent work on AI safety and alignment. It runs from September 2026 to February 2027. It was posted to social media hours after a Ron…

Xoople raises $130M Series B to build Earth’s system of record

Xoople, the data infrastructure company building a globalsystem of record for physical change on Earth, has closed a $130 million SeriesB round. The round included investors such as Nazca Capital, MCH…

Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn
Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while simultaneously disclosing that its revenue run rate has su…

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi
Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if …

Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify
Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without…

Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth
Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by…

The one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, responding Wednesday to a call for…

OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week
OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week

Sam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not…