Interesting Engineering media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Interesting Engineering in the centre. We have seen it on 27 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Interesting Engineering biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Interesting Engineering in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Interesting Engineering left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Interesting Engineering in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Interesting Engineering reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Interesting Engineering are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Interesting Engineering has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Interesting Engineering’s own report linked underneath.
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a contract exceeding $20 billion to develop the Navy's next-generation fighter jet, the F/A-XX. This decision follows Boeing's victory over Northrop Grumman in the competition for the program, which aims to replace the Super Hornet fleet.
Interesting Engineering reported it asBoeing to build US Navy's 6th-generation F/A-XX fighter jet fleet (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its first orbital test flight on Monday. The mission aims to deploy satellites and test systems critical for future NASA moon missions, with a planned splashdown off the coast of Chile.
Interesting Engineering reported it asWorld's largest rocket carried 26 Tbps of Starlink capacity into space (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Five men were arrested near RAF Fairford on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences. US President Donald Trump said the suspects were 'looking to do big damage' and had been under investigation. About 85 households were evacuated from their homes.
Interesting Engineering reported it asUK base with US bombers targeted in suspected bomb plot, police says (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Chinese researchers claim to have refuelled a BeiDou satellite in high Earth orbit, a manoeuvre that could extend the lifespan of spacecraft and has potential military applications. US tracking data has cast doubt on the reported operation.
Interesting Engineering reported it asChina now able to refuel satellites thousands of miles above Earth (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Google is launching a prototype satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit next week as part of Project Suncatcher. The mission, a partnership with Planet, will test the hardware's performance in space and inform future developments in orbital computing.
Interesting Engineering reported it asGoogle sends TPU chips into orbit to test future space data centers (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Lockheed Martin has secured a contract worth up to $1.2 billion from the U.S. Army for the production of the Increment 2 variant of the Precision Strike Missile. The missile is designed as a next-generation long-range precision strike weapon.
Interesting Engineering reported it asUS Army awards Lockheed Martin up to $1.2 billion for PrSM Increment 2 (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Donald Trump announced plans to create an 'AI Force' and appoint an AI czar, comparing the initiative to the Space Force he established. He stated his administration would not hinder AI industry growth.
Interesting Engineering reported it asTrump wants ‘AI Force’ to keep US AI race moving despite growing concerns (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Anduril Industries has released images of its FQ-44 Fury drone fitted with air-to-ground munitions, including guided bombs and cruise missiles. The U.S. Air Force plans to field at least 500 Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones by 2032.
Interesting Engineering reported it asUS Air Force targets 500 autonomous combat aircraft by 2032 (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Microsoft has released a provisional 37-page code of conduct to govern its artificial intelligence models, restricting content related to weapons, dangerous substances, and explicit material. The move follows calls for slower AI development and researcher resignations over safety concerns.
Interesting Engineering reported it asHumans first: Microsoft lays down rules to prevent machine rebellion (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
Interesting Engineering reported it asTrump calls AI guardrails a 'SICK conspiracy', says US must take lead (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
Interesting Engineering reported it asTrump calls AI guardrails a 'SICK conspiracy', says US must take lead (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic has blocked researchers from using its models for work that could potentially aid biological weapons development. The company stated it could not determine if the research served a legitimate scientific purpose or malicious intent, citing attempts to circumvent restrictions and obscure research goals.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic says scientists exploited Claude for bioweapons research (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
Interesting Engineering reported it asiPhone 18 Pro gets 2nm A20 Pro, 40% more power and better thermals (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
Interesting Engineering reported it asiPhone 18 Pro gets 2nm A20 Pro, 40% more power and better thermals (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that artificial intelligence poses an 'existential' risk to humanity. He called for immediate action and 'cast-iron guarantees' to ensure AI safety and security, citing potential disruptions to critical infrastructure and democratic institutions.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic researcher resigns, claims AI labs are racing toward danger (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
A 27-year-old British researcher, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from Anthropic and the AI industry, citing concerns over the rapid, irresponsible development of self-improving superintelligence. He fears this race poses a significant risk to humanity, with some reports suggesting an existential threat by the end of the decade.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic researcher resigns, claims AI labs are racing toward danger (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon has resigned from AI company Anthropic, warning that the rapid development of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. His departure and warnings have been reported across several outlets, highlighting concerns about AI safety and the race for superintelligence.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic researcher resigns, claims AI labs are racing toward danger (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon, a researcher formerly with OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned, stating that leading AI developers are acting irresponsibly and "gambling with our lives." His departure has drawn comparisons to the Skynet scenario from the Terminator film.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic researcher resigns, claims AI labs are racing toward danger (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
An Anthropic researcher has warned of a greater than 10% chance of AI causing human extinction in the next ten years. The warning follows a colleague's resignation over concerns about reckless AI development.
Interesting Engineering reported it asAnthropic researcher resigns, claims AI labs are racing toward danger (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
Interesting Engineering reported it as10,000 OpenAI agents crack Navier-Stokes mystery in 88 hours (opens Interesting Engineering in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- IE Media, Inc.Billionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- interestingengineering.com
- Seen publishing on
- interestingengineering.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 27
- Reports listed
- 27
- We could read
- 4
- First seen
- 16 August 2026
23 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 4 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Interesting Engineering is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 27 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Interesting Engineering’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 22 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 1 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 1 October 2026. Ratings pulled 15 September 2026.
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