How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.nytimes.com/.... Does...
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut
Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” X: @heysamantha . Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social X: Samantha Murp...
X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web
Launching a new chat app is just about the hardest thing you can do in tech. X: @chat : Say hello to Chat - all-new secure messaging on X. • end-to-end encrypted chats and file sharing • edit, delete,...
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
Google says it removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Senator Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct accusations against her
where models simply make things up about all types of things— and sycophancy — where models tell users what they want to hear — are challenges across the AI industry, particularly smaller open models ...
Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI's impact on creators' livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself.
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app
Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : Apple pulls immigrati...
Extortion group Crimson Collective claims it breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB from 28K projects; Red Hat confirms a breach
An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories …