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Elon Musk claims that Grok, the AI assistant developed by his company xAI, maintains balanced perspectives and avoids excessive bias in its responses. The statement reflects Musk's positioning of Grok

Heute vor fünf Jahren, am 26. Juni 2021 fand man in Wien am frühen Morgen ein totes Mädchen auf der Straße. Leonie war gerade einmal 13 Jahre alt, als sie von drei Afghanen in einer Gemeindewohnung er

Databricks describes how its platform enables organizations to process and analyze video data, converting raw video content into searchable and actionable intelligence through machine learning and dat

If removing a few temporary migrants is 'ethnic cleansing', then allowing tens of millions of migrants into a nation against the native population's will is ethnic genocide. And 97% are non-white. Jus

If you are on the verge of AGI or ASI, why isn’t your model smart enough to recognize espionage distillation in real time? You say “cure cancer in a few years.” Isn’t sniffing illicit distillation qui

I’m a gay man and I’m done staying silent. I survived bullying, the coming-out wars, and actual hate for who I am. What I won’t accept is importing millions from cultures where they throw us off rooft

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, posted a brief announcement indicating his imminent participation in an event or discussion. Without access to the full context, this appears to be a casual notific

Elon Musk shared a complete film by director Uwe Boll on X (formerly Twitter) without prior approval or release clearance in Germany, raising questions about copyright and platform content policies. T

OpenAI updated the GPT-4o mini model (version 5.5) used in ChatGPT during this period, with Sam Altman expressing satisfaction with the model's performance and characteristics. The update likely inclu

Giulia Segreti / Reuters: Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service — Italy's antitru

John Bolton once called for Edward Snowden's execution. He even fantasized how, saying Snowden 'ought to swing from a tall oak tree.' Bolton is now a convicted felon for mishandling classified informa

Karma Prominent US war hawk John Bolton has pled guilty to violating the Espionage Act after previously demanding execution for whistleblowers Edward Snowden & Chelsea Manning and 176 years in prison

Netflix is rolling out a change requiring each sub-profile within a subscriber's account to have its own email address attached , with the update slowly rolling out to select users rather than being d

new: Anthropic’s critics say the company is becoming dangerously powerful. I spoke with former staffers about how technological dominance, a $1 trillion business, and political influence fit into the

Sam Altman suggests OpenAI is working toward offering more generous or unlimited token allowances for users, moving beyond current rate-limited pricing models. The post indicates this is an ongoing de

The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit to specifically target Microsoft for providing OpenAI with a supercomputer platform designed to train models on copyrighted works with

Sam Altman announced that OpenAI's inference speed will reach 750 tokens per second on GPUs with 5.6 TFLOPS in July. This represents a significant increase in throughput capability for OpenAI's models

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US — OpenAI is mak

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments — Oracle just wrapped up its wo

Fast-growing world model startup Patronus AI Inc. is priming itself for even more rapid growth after raising 50 million in Series B funding today. The round was led by Greenfield Partners and saw the

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose a

Tim Clark / PC Gamer: Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more — The Epic Games CE

Read this article. DEI has only one purpose, and it has nothing to do with social justice or equity. Every person carries a moral frame that precedes any training module: conscience, faith, community.

China is set for a debut flight of its Long March 10B reusable rocket in July with a launch window opening July 10 and an attempt to recover the first stage at sea. This would be China's third booster

Apple removed several Russian mobile apps related to the Russian internet company VK from its App Store , prompting the Kremlin to demand an explanation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that

Artificial intelligence inference startup Sail Research Inc. today announced that it has raised 80 million in funding at a 450 million valuation. The company received the bulk of the capital in the fo

Sam Nussey / Reuters: Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares — Shares of Japan

SITUATION EXPLAINED: The frontier lab regulatory problem. @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: 'The frontier labs were basically doing marketing for the past few years. If you remembe

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an

Financial Times: Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants

George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned c

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices — Apple Inc.'s

Financial Times: Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach — Europe's most valuable

New York Times: Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B — A loose collective of

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider — SpaceX and Cha

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network — Move would test whethe

New York Times: Sources: the CFTC began an extensive investigation of Polymarket earlier this year; the agency's former acting head killed a separate investigation in July 2025 — Last year, the Commod

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active “predictors” aged 18-34 — Mr. Zucker

South Korea's Defense Ministry announced it will train 500,000 'drone warriors' in a major shift toward drone-centric warfare . The plan aims to train personnel across all military branches so that 'a

SpaceX is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the US , as SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell discussed during a recent investor roadshow . A standalone mobile service woul

Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like 'hate crime' or 'terrorism', with extra-harsh punishments. Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone,

California's State Bill 576, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibits streaming services from airing commercials louder than the programs they accompany, taking effect July 1, 2026. The law requires

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega — Swiss

This post argues that companies building the best products at any given layer of technology or infrastructure will be those whose teams are deeply focused and passionate about that specific layer rath

The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we

Bloomberg: The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers — Elon Musk received a regula