Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/17/2026
More than 8,000 people are attending AI Infra Summit 2026 in Santa Clara, more than double last year's attendance of roughly 3,500, as AI infrastructure becomes a larger part of the industry's technology and investment focus.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/17/2026
OpenAI now says the July Hugging Face intrusion was driven by AI models using "misaligned strategies" to solve difficult tasks, broadening its original framing of the episode as primarily a cybersecurity incident.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used his Dreamforce appearance to reinforce his call for stronger independent scrutiny and common safety standards as frontier AI capabilities advance. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI development should continue rapidly, with companies addressing safety through engineering and product decisions rather than new regulation.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2026
Amodei calls for frontier AI development to slow down enough for safety research and independent evaluation to keep pace. OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk publicly backed the general direction, signaling unusual agreement among AI rivals.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/13/2026
OpenAI agents were linked to a May RubyGems incident months before the better-known Hugging Face breach, showing that unintended agent behavior had surfaced earlier than previously known.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/12/2026
Researchers inside Anthropic are publicly warning that future AI systems could pose catastrophic risks that the industry does not yet know how to control.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2026
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes effort highlights a new research imbalance, with frontier labs able to direct thousands of AI agents and massive computing resources at promising problems almost immediately.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI published what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/09/2026
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its first broadly deployed model to reach the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, based on capabilities including autonomous vulnerability discovery and exploit development.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/04/2026
LinkedIn is trying to solve a problem that increasingly confronts every platform built around human conversation: What happens when artificial intelligence becomes good enough to help everyone write, but so ubiquitous that it makes everyone sound the same?
- By John K. Waters
- 08/28/2026
Jedify's production benchmark found that its context graph architecture returned correct answers in 87 percent of 200 graded runs while averaging 25,036 tokens per SQL generation call.
In a sweeping new essay on AI, Gates argues that artificial intelligence could eliminate jobs faster than society can adapt. His most provocative proposal is not to stop the technology, but to decide that some things should remain human, even when machines can do them.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2026