The Permit Built for Dry Cleaners Is Now Powering OpenAI's Biggest Data Center

A Floodlight/Wired investigation found that OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas used a permit built for dry cleaners to bring a gigawatt-scale gas plant online with no environmental review. Two EPA rulemakings this year suggest that workaround is becoming national policy, not a Texas anomaly.

The Missing Benchmark: Why No One Can Yet Score a Model's "Stop Quality"

A new academic benchmark finds every frontier-class agent tested fails, more than half the time, at recognizing when a task is hopeless and should be abandoned

Your AI Agent Can Write the Code. The Hard Part Is Delegating to It.

You can now kick off an AI coding agent, close the laptop, and get a pull request back - some tools even let you steer one from a chat app. Yet Meta just told staff its agents haven't progressed as hoped. The difference is delegation. Here's how to do it well, and where agents still break.

Anthropic Found Where Claude Hides Its Secrets. The Headlines Found Consciousness.

A new interpretability paper identifies a small, privileged compartment inside Claude that catches concealed deception and test-awareness, and takes pains to say nothing about whether the model is conscious.

Everyone Is Building Nvidia's Replacement. Amazon Just Offered to Sell You One.

Five Ways an AI Benchmark Score Can Lie to You

A team of Berkeley researchers posted near-perfect scores across eight major AI benchmarks - 100% on most of them - without solving a single task, just by gaming how the score is computed. That gap - between the number and the achievement - is why you have to read a benchmark claim like a skeptic. Here are the five tells, and the five questions to ask.