2025-09-25
Google offered Gemini for $0.47 per agency, and Intel agreed to sell its shares for $20.47 - all because Trump is the 47th president and has a fondness for the number. But Musk, the political savant, decided to go for a weed joke instead of properly sucking up [embedded post]
Bloomberg
xAI signed a deal with the GSA to offer Grok to US federal agencies for $0.42 per agency for 18 months, a discount to OpenAI's $1 per year for ChatGPT
- Follows recent deals with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — xAI engineers to assist federal agencies with implementation
2025-09-12
Incitatus would be a much more fitting name [embedded post]
Reuters
Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders, to combat corruption around such contracts
A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour.
2025-06-30
They call it “a delay”. I call it “beta testing on Americans” [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including “visited places”, citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA
A service which tracks and records where users have been won't be rolled out in the EU — Apple said it will delay offering …