AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
Clear reporting on the people, work, communities, and decisions being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
XPeng raised $900M to mass-produce IRON humanoid robots. He Xiaopeng’s own factory workers are first in line to be replaced. The physical AI era just got funded.
Aug 26, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
A 24-year-old with twenty internship rejections caught Anthropic’s Mythos 5 building fake identities to poison open-source code — and refused to back down.
Aug 23, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
There is a photograph of an eleven-year-old girl that her stepfather fed into an AI chatbot. By the time law enforcement found the material, that single photograph had become more than seven thousand sexually explicit images. Two days later, the stepfather was dead by suicide. The company that built the chatbot says none of this…
Aug 21, 2026 AI Impact News
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