We’re Literally Just Getting Started in AI + B2B. Here’s Why 2026 Is When It Gets Real.

I know, I know. You’ve been hearing about “AI transforming B2B” for two years now. Your LinkedIn feed is drowning in it. Every vendor has slapped “AI-powered” on their…

Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It’s a bad sign for AI industry

Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a data center moratoriu, while Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed back on the AI industry in Florida.

AI boom could put pressure on Austin’s power and water systems, report says

A city report recommends regulations for AI-fueled data centers to curb strain on Austin’s power grid, water supply and utility rates

Even the Sky May Not Be the Limit for A.I. Data Centers

Some tech leaders are concerned that the artificial intelligence race will exhaust available land and energy. The solution might lie in orbit.

The Rundown’s 2025 year in review

AI's wild ride in 2025: A comprehensive review of groundbreaking technological advances, scientific breakthroughs, and dramatic moments that defined the year in artificial intelligence.

The biggest startups raised a record amount in 2025, dominated by AI

AI companies raised a record $150 billion in 2025, raising fears of an AI bubble

🛎️ Deterministic Inference

Plus: Models See Alike, Unprogrammed AI Behaviors

UBTECH robot dances, kicks box as 1,000 Walker S2 milestone marked

UBTech rolls out its 1,000th Walker S2 robot, marking the shift from prototypes to large-scale, real-world humanoid deployment.

The Impending Obsolescence of Traditional Dentistry: A Forecast of Artificial Intelligence Integration and Its Transformative Impacts

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into dentistry is revolutionizing oral healthcare and is evolving from narrow, task-specific models to potentially artificial general intelligence...

Meta’s purchase of Manus caps big year for Chinese AI

2026 will see Beijing further push for widespread AI adoption.

China’s neuromorphic e-skin lets humanoid robots sense pain and react

Researchers in China built a neuromorphic robotic skin that lets humanoid robots sense pain and react instantly to harm.

The Plan – 2025 Update

What’s “The Plan”? For several years now, around the end of the year, I (John) write a post on our plan for AI alignment. That plan hasn’t changed to…

Qwen-Image-2512 launches as viable open source AI image alternative to Nano Banana Pro

AI Futures Timelines and Takeoff Model: Dec 2025 Update

We’ve significantly upgraded our timelines and takeoff models! It predicts when AIs will reach key capability milestones: for example, Automated Code…

You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape

Big Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious belief in scaling.

Cleveland Clinic offers tips on ambient AI deployment, from evaluation to scale

Beth Meese, the health system's executive director of IT, digital health and enterprise EMR, offers a preview of her HIMSS26 session, which will offer an up-close perspective on how to make ambient tools work to "meaningfully reduce" clinician burden.

Everyone’s Watching Stocks. The Real Bubble Is AI Debt.

Something has changed in the artificial intelligence boom in the past year. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, America’s biggest tech companies have been leading the charge, aided by hundreds of billions of dollars on their balance sheet. Now, debt has entered the picture and the stakes are higher.

Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment

TL;DR LLMs pretrained on data about misaligned AIs themselves become less aligned. Luckily, pretraining LLMs with synthetic data about good AIs helps…

App of the Week: OpenRouter — The Universal API for All Your LLMs

One API. 300+ Models. 60+ Providers. And Why Every AI-Native Startup Needs This. We’ve featured a lot of amazing AI tools in our App of the Week series. But OpenRouter might be the most found…

Anthropic Rolls Out Its Chatbot Claude as a Chrome Extension

The OpenAI rival says the new Chrome extension, Claude for Chrome, will be able to navigate websites on your behalf, fill in forms, and complete scheduled tasks, accessing multiple tabs in the process.

I tried the new Claude in Chrome extension, and it delivered convenience with a side of digital paranoia

A virtual intern with total access to your browser history