Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
… OpenAI and Anthropic had already agreed to share their models with CAISI back in 2024 under President Joe Biden as part of Biden’s push for AI safety guardrails. …
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Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs
… In addition to an executive shuffle, Microsoft has only pushed further into AI in recent months, with the company reporting $54.5 billion in revenue from its cloud business, marking a 29 percent year-over-year increase. “We are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that em… …
Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents
… Just one day before the launch of EmDash, Automattic’s Matias Ventura announced that the project is pushing back the launch of WordPress 7.0 for a “few weeks to finalize key architectural details.” Along with support for real-time collaborative editing, this update will include an AI client and an … …
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
… It’s also a lot of AI experience, which is bound to sound the alarm bells with some Xbox fans, but looking at the appointments there’s no clear AI push for Xbox here. …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… And third, David Sacks was pushed out of his job as the AI and crypto czar, giving Silicon Valley one less mechanism to pitch an industry-friendly, “innovation-at-all-costs” agenda to Trump himself. …
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
… Having an AI software stack means being able to deploy AI agents into that data to better organize it — with fewer concerns about leakage than there would be with general-purpose third-party LLMs. “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history,” Ellison said … …
The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
… And all the while, Silicon Valley’s multitrillion-dollar push for AI adoption is clashing with their fears of its well-documented impacts — on the environment, disinformation, academic integrity, and our social fabric and emotional well-being, to name just a few. “The part that feels scariest to me… …
Cybersecurity
… Ubuntu’s web infrastructure remains unavailable after going offline Thursday morning , blocking updates and other access at a time when Linux admins really need to apply a patch . “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it. …
Mass Transit
… Urban Institute’s Yonah Freemark, who shared screenshots of the memo on BlueSky, called canceling bike lane infrastructure counterproductive. “On a per-dollar basis, cycling improvements are some of the most efficient ways to increase mobility, and they enable people from all backgrounds and income… …
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
… At that time I also set up with Amin Vahdat, who’s now our SVP of AI infrastructure, a centralized infrastructure team, which has paid great dividends. …