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Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
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Vox - 1 day 2 hours agoElon Musk speaks during a video interview in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 18, 2026. | Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images Welcome to the era of the big three. We're not talking rappers here although according to Kendrick Lamar, it's " just big me " we're talking AI companies: Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI. These three leading artificial intelligence companies are all expected to go public this year. Elon Musk's SpaceX, which recently acquired another Musk company , xAi, is on...
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours agoAn email inviting you to a party might seem harmless, but it could also be part of a growing online threat that's prompting fresh concern from federal regulators. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning about a scam that uses familiar-looking invitation messages to lure users into taking a risky next step without […] Read the original article here: FTC issues warning over fake party invitation scam...
Vox - 1 day 3 hours agoThe Americans were closing in, the situation was getting more dangerous by the minute and President Xi Jinping was waiting for my recommendation. The standoff began in May, when the US announced a package of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles to Taiwan that would significantly upgrade the island's ability to repel a Chinese invasion. We ordered massive military exercises in the region as a show of force. The US soon responded by sending the USS Abraham Lincoln to lead its own exercises with...
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A British lawmaker is taking Elon Musk's AI company to court over what she says it helped create: sexually explicit fakes of her. Per the Financial Times , Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim on Wednesday in London's High Court accusing xAI now a SpaceX subsidiary of breaching data protection...
Labour MP Jess Asato is suing Elon Musk's xAI, saying the Grok chatbot was used to create fake images of her in a bikini.
Sir Keir Starmer has backed a Labour MP who is suing Elon Musk's xAI, saying the Grok chatbot was used to create fake images of her in a bikini.
California just delivered a first-of-its-kind verdict on the data infrastructure behind AI and it wasn't a yes. Voters in Monterey Park on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a ballot measure to permanently outlaw data centers within city limits, with early returns showing more than 86% support . City officials had already imposed an...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 18 hours agoSome of our favorites, including the MacBook Air, are available at rare discounts.
Silicon Valley is turning to philosophers to help build better bots.
The New York Observer - 1 day 19 hours agoAt commencements from Carnegie Mellon to the University of Arizona, Jensen Huang, Eric Schmidt and other tech leaders delivered similar advice about A.I. and got very different receptions. The speeches reflected a familiar Silicon Valley optimism, but many graduates heard something more complicated.
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 21 hours agoWalking around with the rectangular Olight ArkPro Ultra in my front pocket convinced me flashlights have been the wrong shape all along.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd and damning.
Observer - 1 day 23 hours agoOtter is challenging tech giants with cross-platform A.I. tools built on meeting data, aiming to outpace Microsoft and Google. CEO Sam Liang outlines how conversational A.I. and context-rich data could redefine how people work and communicate.
GeekSpin - 2 days 1 hour agoDell is bringing the XPS brand back into the spotlight with a new XPS 13 laptop aimed at students and young professionals who want something sleek without paying premium laptop prices. The new model is designed as a response to Apple’s MacBook Neo and starts at $599 for eligible students and $699 for everyone else. […] Read the original article here: Dell undercuts MacBook Neo with new $599 XPS 13 laptop...
Meta is quietly retooling a controversial plan to log how its own employees use their computers. After internal pushback over a tool that tracks clicks and keystrokes to train AI models, staff will now be able to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes and request full exemptions, according...
Vox - 2 days 2 hours agoA robot tries painting. | Yuliia Volkovska/Getty Images As AI continues to encroach on every aspect of our lives, there is a persistent fear or hope, depending on your angle: AI will someday take over art. The internet is full of quizzes showing that most lay people cannot tell the difference between AI-generated art ( digital pictures of paintings , prose ) and the real thing. Multiple studies have shown that when people are shown AI-generated art and human-made art, but are not told which is which...
The Huntington Beach company said it raised $300 million in its latest funding round, bringing up its valuation.
NPR - 2 days 4 hours agoPresident Trump is asking artificial intelligence firms to submit new models for government review. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Alondra Nelson, who worked on AI policy in the Biden administration.
President Trump at the White House last week.
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