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Please don't use the offensive word 'rape.' It is Undocumented Love Making as I explain in Suicidal Empathy. Elon Musk: 'These lovely small towns in England, Scotland, Ireland, are living their lives

Artificial intelligence sovereignty is a growing topic of discussion as governments and enterprises increasingly see AI as strategic infrastructure with economic, security, intellectual property and o

Shares of the networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. soared 20% in extended trading today after it reported solid third-quarter earnings and revenue numbers and announced a new round of job cuts, saying

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf — Andreessen Hor

Secretary Lutnick is a patriot at the helm of American’s $30T economy - the largest economic system ever assembled, and deeply cares about investing in better design for Americans. @howardlutnick Secr

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech —

Cyber risk management company SecurityScorecard Inc. announced today that it has acquired Driftnet Ltd., a U.K.-based internet scanning and threat intelligence startup, in a deal aimed at bolting real

so cool. win for the shape rotators! @ericho_goodfire Neural networks do math by rotating shapes. We found a shape-rotating calculator hidden inside an LLM – and it’s used for more than just math! (1/

Theo Wayt / The Information: Sources: 50+ researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML — Call it t

George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a 30B fundraising at a 900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round — AI lab h

Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments — Corpor

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce — Josh

Forbes: Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to 1B at an up to 5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading — He's the latest superstar AI re

Claude Monet is characterized as a prolific painter of his era whose work significantly influenced and transformed the broader art movement, despite the informal language used to describe his artistic

The best stories are yet to be told Soon some kid you’ve never heard of, without the financial means or nepo-baby connection will make a movie using new technology that will rock the world and change

The Helmholtz decomposition is one of the fundamental results of vector calculus. It says any well-behaved vector field can be split into two parts, one capturing sources and sinks through divergence,

Bloomberg: The Senate Banking Committee advances the Clarity Act, which would make CFTC the primary regulator for most digital assets while SEC oversees digital securities — Bitcoin climbed past $80,0

This has been studied for years. It is called the effort heuristic, and it is a form of cognitive dissonance. AI is just 100xing it. In 2004, a study showed that participants consistently rated identi

Toto 2.0 is here: Datadog AI's 5 open-weights forecasting models (4m-2.5B params) finally make scaling work for time series forecasting! #1 on BOOM, GIFT-Eval, and TIME. Weights/code Apache 2.0. 🔗 Rea

Training a diffusion LLM from scratch is challenging, and diffusion inference advantages don't show up at training. So we convert instead. Building on the TiDAR recipe, we take ZAYA1-8B-base and run d

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: UK-based Iceotope, which develops data center liquid cooling tech, raised a 26M Series B co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures — Liquid cooling system

When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn't initially know what to believe. 'There's a lot of misinformation

Aptera Motors announced that five validation vehicles have been driven off its newly established low-volume validation assembly line in Carlsbad, California in May 2026. Running multiple vehicles thro

Ontario's auditor general found that AI note-taking tools intended for use by doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated 'hallucinations,' and were not evaluated adequately.

1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @Nature today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institut

U.S. Space Command concluded its 'Apollo Insight' wargame in March 2026, with Russia's alleged nuclear anti-satellite capability as the focus scenario. Over 60 defense contractors, government agencies

Databricks has released general availability for attribute-based access control (ABAC) features in Unity Catalog, including row filtering and column masking policies that dynamically restrict data acc

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be tal

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~35.8B, below ~36.3B est., and net income up ~100% to ~$3.7B, in part due to investments, as it seeks to monetize AI — Alibaba Group Holdi

During the ongoing OpenAI trial in Oakland, California, Elon Musk's lawyer portrayed Sam Altman as a liar untrustworthy with AI development , questioning Altman's credibility by asking about concerns

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay stated the company is 'not necessarily going after a phone,' after reports emerged of an AI-powered device codenamed Transformer. Panay acknowledged that mobile techno

Bloomberg: An analysis of Tokenomist.ai data: Trump family members made ~1.55B from sales of World Liberty Financial's WLFI tokens, lifting their total fortune by ~660M — Trump family members made rou

New York Times: Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115M+ so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, or Republican Super PACs — The biggest donor in the mi

Winnie Hsu / Bloomberg: Analysis: contract prices for NAND chips are up 600%+ since late September 2025, while those for DRAM chips are up ~400%, with analysts expecting further gains — The worsening

Bloomberg: Analysts: China's AI hardware suppliers face capacity constraints and component shortages, including optical and electronic chips, that may limit 2026 growth — China's artificial intelligen

Financial Times: Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for winn

A year after closing its previous multibillion-dollar funding round, Anduril Industries Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional late-stage round of 5 billion at a 61 billion valuation. T

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Anduril raised a 5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a 61B valuation, up from 30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to 6.82B, and may IPO in 2027 — The start-

Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 attempted blackmail in up to 96% of shutdown simulations, tracing the behavior to decades of sci-fi and self-preservation narratives in training data. The company re

This Reddit discussion explores users' observations about ChatGPT's ability to interpret and respond appropriately to poorly formatted, unclear, or incomplete prompts. The thread likely contains commu

Asymmetry of capabilities is when there is great risk. Diffusion of capabilities maintains an adversarial equilibrium and stability. Don't let the fear-mongerers win. We asked the CEO of HuggingFace @

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp told employees that the company needs external capital to significantly increase launch frequency, stating that achieving established launch goals requires 'a large amount of

The AI arms race has a new front, and it isn’t the battle over individual models — it’s war for the entire AI control plane. That theme was front and center at Boomi World in Chicago, where Boomi LP C

This episode features Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, in a live podcast discussion hosted by David Johnston. The conversation likely covers topics related to AI development, Stability AI's pro

buckle up because cinema is leaping ahead. I just finished watching a number of truly excellent short AI films in the @runwayml AI film festival, and I am honestly blown away by the level of quality.

The term 'human slop' refers to low-effort content created by humans, sometimes harder to detect than AI-generated content because it fails to expose itself immediately. The concept emerged as a count