Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy
…The first — for a breach of the founding agreement — was in state court in 2024; Musk withdrew it immediately before a major hearing. We then got the current lawsuit, also filed in…
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Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
…way it’s playing out. And now, everyone — but maybe especially the Chinese government — is watching to see whether the United States’ AI regulatory approach takes the shape of a serious safety…
If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?
…Gears of War), Playground Games (Forza Horizon, Fable), Blizzard Entertainment (Overwatch, Warcraft), King (Candy Crush), and Rare (Sea of Thieves). (Kotaku has a great list of the current state of Xbox’s…
How I built a vanlife setup powerful enough for work and play
…If you’ve ever been sucked into a #vanlife hashtag, then you’ve seen the company’s myriad of signature-blue modules. Victron systems are complex but rock solid and considered state…
Rivian makes the iconic American car — but that may not be enough
…in the United States and the cost of labor for a US company operating in the United States is going to be the same.” But expecting a level playing field in this…
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Virtual Reality Richard Lawler May 18 With mass layoffs plannned, Meta reassigns thousands of employees to AI initiatives. The New York Times and Reuters report that a memo was sent to Meta…
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
…Individual data center plans have been canceled or downscaled after local protest, and moratoriums have been proposed at all levels of government. New York’s state legislature just voted for a one…
AI warfare is already here
…Seventy years ago, a summer meeting between scientists in New Hampshire made the Department of Defense sit up and take notice of AI’s potential for war. Since then, its influence has…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
…000 from the United States. “They have famous people,” says Azdoufal. “People who don’t want everyone to know they smoke weed.” Here’s a rough summary of the userbase that Azdoufal…
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
…You just wrote a big piece for The New Yorker. It’s a profile of Sam Altman and, sort of with it, OpenAI. My read of it is that, as all great…