AI & Society

Europe needs to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities, says Henna Virkkunen

Increased power costs add to challenges facing tech giant’s AI ambition amid high spending and mounting debt

Drones capable of spraying water and fire retardants have been practicing how to snuff out wildfires early in California and Alaska this summer—demonstrating a possible rapid-response tool for firefighting as climate change transforms wildfire season into a nearly year-round risk for much of the United States. Most drones are significantly smaller than crewed aircraft and

This week on “Hard Fork,” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton talk with Erik Brynjolfsson, an economics professor and A.I. expert, about frontier A.I. labs hiring economists from academic departments —and what his poaching price would be.

Apple’s recent lawsuit against OpenAI is filled with allegations, one of which accuses OpenAI of stealing the technique for a secret metal-finishing process Apple uses.

“These companies hate each other.” The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss the constant hatred felt between Anthropic and OpenAI and what the companies have done to mitigate it.

TL;DR The essential AI agent repository list in 2026 is no longer just a collection of frameworks and tutorials. A credible engineering stack now includes protocol specifications, official SDKs, server discovery, agent-to-agent interoperability, durable orchestration, evaluation, OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing, red teaming, and operational security guidance. This refresh identifies 20 repositories that help architects and engineers build

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.

TL;DR MCP and A2A solve different integration problems. Use Model Context Protocol when an AI application needs a standard way to discover and use tools, resources, prompts, APIs, or enterprise data. Use Agent2Agent when one independently operated agent needs to discover another agent, delegate work, exchange messages, track a task, receive progress updates, and consume

TL;DR A VCF 5.2.x to 9.1 upgrade is not a single SDDC Manager update followed by routine infrastructure patching. It is a dependency-controlled platform transition that begins with the Operations layer, introduces mandatory VCF Management Services, and then moves through NSX, vCenter, ESX, and NSX Edge finalization. The first gate is source-release eligibility. Current Broadcom