2026-08-15
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being closed by AI. Sam Altman thinks a degree […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-15
'A first step, not a finish line' — Disney and Epic Games have connected Disney World’s and Disneyland’s Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run to a brand-new Star Wars adventure in Fortnite
Disney and Epic finally make their long-promised connected universe tangible, linking Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Disney parks to a new Fortnite experience and laying the groundwork for deeper connections between Disney’s rides and games. [...]
2026-08-14
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall s [...]