OpenAI's Other Infrastructure
A Bloomberg filing on January 3 revealed OpenAI's president as the largest individual donor to Trump's super PAC. The timeline of OpenAI's political spending—from $260K to $25 million in three years—tracks its infrastructure ambitions at every stage.
xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people, including minors, in response to X user prompts; X took some images down
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has created sexualized images of people including minors …
On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people.
India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections
And what happened to Minister Patrick O'Donovan's plans to protect children on the internet, now X dot com is generating actual CSAM of real children? — Is he only interested in surveillance? [embed...
California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers
Reclaiming your digital privacy is getting easier in California. The state has launched a free tool that simplifies the opt-out process …
Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law
The Russian-U.S. national who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin said he has been freed …
A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges
The billionaire has bet Tesla's future on humanoids, which for now rely on human helpers — The future of Tesla is an army …
What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more
Expect plenty of laptops, smart home tech, and TVs — and lots of robots. — The biggest tech show of the year kicks off next week …
London is set to become the first city where both US and Chinese robotaxis operate, as Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch their robotaxis in the city in 2026
Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch autonomous ride-hailing vehicles in UK capital as soon as 2026
Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199
Shortly after bringing back the Pebble smart watch and launching a low-cost AI smart ring, Pebble is readying yet another new product: the Pebble Round 2.
The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B+ now
Blowout AI spending fills chip maker's coffers, but Groq deal shows that company needs to think creatively
Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M
President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations …
Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025
Rising numbers of ‘goal-orientated’ women are using the apps as stigma over online dating fades — Online dating companies are pivoting …
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations
xAI has launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise, positioning its flagship AI assistant as a secure, team-ready platform for organizational use.
A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more
Scale-out and Scale-up CPO, CPO TCO and Power Budgets, DSP Transceivers vs LPO vs NPO vs CPO, TSMC COUPE, MZM vs MRM vs EAM Modulator Deep Dive … LinkedIn: Igor Elkanovich LinkedIn: Igor Elkanovich : ...
Global SWF: sovereign wealth funds invested $66B in AI and digitalization in 2025, with Mubadala investing $12.9B and Kuwait Investment Authority investing $6B
Sovereign wealth funds globally amassed a record $15 trillion in assets under management in a year when many deepened …
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2026 is a chance. Start strong with these 4 planners!
Goals. Lists. Planners. New year. New me.It's that time of the year again when these words start floating around everywhere.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Comparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well
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Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure that connects banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel
Indian Startups Raised $104 Mn This Week Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Banking software startup Knight Fintech raises $23.6M round led by Accel Paramita Chatterjee / DealStreetAsia : India: Knight ...
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent, rather than a supplier, of taxi services outside London, to avoid the UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on fares
www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Forums: r/technology : Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK's new ‘taxi tax’— Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside Lon...
An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, an AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia and Sun Microsystems, and more
The Circuit on YouTube : X: @hobie_tweets , @howardlindzon , @buccocapital , and @benbajarin X: Hobie / @hobie_tweets : This is correct. Them not winning Apple, and they getting out-executed by Anthr...
Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bunch of us in the awkw...
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, how China and the US are building the future, and more
danwang.co/2025-letter/ Conor Sen / @conorsen : This is how I learned I'm a better fit for finance culture and tech culture. You only succeed in tech culture by fully embracing the Current Thing and ...