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Kinling Lo / Rest of World: China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies — Foreign vis
Environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements for utilities cleaning up toxic coal ash at hundreds of sites across the country. The Trump administ
Every country on planet Earth is built on conquest. Every “indigenous” tribe claimed its land by conquest. Every line on the map, across every continent and every ethnic group, was drawn by conquest.
Artificial intelligence is forcing companies to change almost every aspect of their business. From operations to hiring to sales and training, change is happening faster than ever. One aspect of this
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google's keyword ad practices face renewed criticism after the Delhi High Court ruled against Google in a trademark dispute involving Indian company Hindware — A recent Ind
This article examines the origins of the most common arguments against vaccines—that they are unnatural, more dangerous than disease, or an affront to freedom—tracing how innocent skepticism from the
Grok Build is moving fast xAI has been shipping Grok Build updates non-stop If you have not been keeping track, here is what xAI has rolled out up to v0.2.11: New commands & core features → Integrated
This post suggests that low voter turnout in recent British elections reflects voter disengagement due to lack of appealing political options, and implies that a new political movement or party (refer
Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He's a former engineer at Met
These judgments are a solid example of cultural essentialism. iow, the belief that there is a fixed essence of 'real cinema' or 'true art' Every generation internalizes the standards of its artistic c
I LOVE that we have a tweeting brilliant pope writing about the deepest questions. What a timeline. But how do we know AI doesn’t undergo experiences or feel joy or pain? How do i even know the humans
This post compares the number of public statements made by UK Labour leader Keir Starmer regarding two different cases: Henry Nowak and George Floyd, suggesting a discrepancy in his public commentary.
Elon Musk posted on X advocating for dramatic increases in both GDP and human population by a factor of 1000. The post likely reflects his views on technological advancement, economic growth, and huma
The artificial intelligence wave is starting to look a bit like the personal computer era – with some obvious differences. The first similarity is personal productivity. Individuals are taking control
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to 26B in 2025 from 4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year — Investors be
This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT discusses a prompt designed to generate street photography images of a recognizable movie character or celebrity, with a subtle horrific or disturbing element intention
Release the body camera videos He was bleeding. He said he had been stabbed. He said he could not breathe. And still, the police laughed, handcuffed him and he bled out. The police saw the narrative b
Financial Times: SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France — Masayoshi Son places
Politico: Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids — “The hyperscalers, when the
'Suicidal Empathy' held the #1 position on Canada's book charts for a second consecutive week, according to a post shared on X (Twitter). The claim was amplified by Elon Musk through a repost, though
The creative team behind Salomon’s latest global brand campaign shared how they’re using Runway to explore new visual territories and uncover fresh creative directions. Today, they’re also collaborati
CNBC: The DOD's 9.7B contract with Dell has raised eyebrows as a potential payback for Michael and Susan Dell's 6.25B donation to 25M US children's Trump Accounts — Michael Dell bought into President
I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bank
These judgments are a solid example of cultural essentialism. iow, the belief that there is a fixed essence of 'real cinema' or 'true art' Every generation internalizes the standards of its artistic c
Voltaire passed away today in 1778. There are two quotes of his I always come back to: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' and “Those who can make you
This post likely emphasizes human potential and agency in shaping the future through innovation and bold action, reflecting themes commonly discussed by figures in the tech and entrepreneurship space.
SemiAnalysis: Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history — Why AI's increasing out
I cannot verify this claim as the URL provided appears to be fabricated (the status ID format doesn't match X's actual URL structure, and the date would be far in the future). Without access to the ac
Holly Bishop / The Independent: A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' “hyper-real and persuasive” nature — - BBC
Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to “tokenmaxxing”, some companies are rationing or tracking AI use — E
Agree! was talking about this with @havoyan just a few days ago. That's also the reason why so much of the value has been accruing to the frontier models in my opinion (cc @GavinSBaker) because if you
This article argues that AI projects fail to scale when organizations treat them as one-off innovations rather than integrating them into standard business operations and processes. According to Datab
An analysis of the Texas measles outbreak examines epidemiological features, transmission dynamics, and clinical manifestations, emphasizing the severe complications the virus poses, with resurgence d
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or res
Amazon Web Services Inc. has started using a new data center network design that significantly improves the throughput and reliability of connections. The cloud giant today detailed the architecture,
A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Enterprises LP exploded late Thursday ahead of a planned launch next week. The New Glenn heavy-lift vehicle was set to carry 48 of Amazon.com Inc.’s Leo satel
Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully raci
Dutch authorities dismantled a large Asocks botnet comprising at least 17 million compromised devices including computers, routers, tablets, smartphones, and smart security cameras. Investigators iden
Bloomberg: BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform — BYD Co., the world's largest el
The Grok Build changelog provides daily updates on new features, improvements, and fixes for Grok, xAI's AI assistant. Users can track the development progress and changes to the platform's capabiliti
CNN today opened a lawsuit against the AI firm Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company has violated copyright protections by using artificial intelligence to rewrite its reporting, thereby underminin
CJ Haddad / CNBC: Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 — Shares of Dell Techno
The Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington state alleging their refusal to issue undercover license plates to federal agents imposes unconstitutional
Elon Musk on the physics of truth: “Truth is not an easy thing But you can aspire to the truth. You can try to get as close to the truth as possible with minimum error while acknowledging that there w
Databricks introduces database branching capabilities through Lakebase, enabling developers to create isolated database branches for parallel development and testing without affecting production envir
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at 9M — A Kentucky
Fuck the police. @smg1664 Our officers were misled at the scene, including denial of weapon use. They quickly switched to life-saving aid within minutes but, as laid out in our statement, the medical
Hardware firms are cleaning up bigtime as enterprises and cloud providers can’t get enough computing power for their artificial intelligence dreams. Dell Technology’s stock rocketed an incredible 31%
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, 2026 , which is catastrophic because Blue Origin only has one New Glenn pad and it was damaged in the
“I’ll kill your whole f–king family. Your whole f–king family is dead. Your children, your wife, all dead.' A left-wing activist in Newark was caught on camera shouting those words at an unmasked ICE
In the UK, you can stab a white person to death and get them arrested while they bleed to death, because racism. In the UK, you can brutally assault police officers on video and go free, because racis
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal memo: Meta plans to start testing an AI pendant in 2027, release new AI glasses next month, start a “Wearables for Work” unit for enterprises, and more — Meta Pl
Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There's still no question that Ferrari's first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, su
Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC — Kalshi announced
Martin Coulter / Sifted: London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures — London-based Inhe
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth — TAIPEI — Me
Shares of the database company MongoDB Inc. shot up both before and after the close of the regular trading session today following a solid first-quarter financial report that saw it blow past analysts
Most people know Hugging Face from its public models and datasets but few realize that 50% of the models and datasets stored on HF are private. This number has been increasing with buckets (our S3 alt
@Nigel_Farage You literally admitted on national television that you tried to put Rupert Lowe in prison because of political differences. He wanted to deport Pakistani child rapists and their accompli
Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools — OpenAI is launching a