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Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman fails, ruled late under statute of limitations, clearing way for OpenAI’s IPO.

GitHub repo fights AI bot spam by using a whitelist with --author flag, ensuring genuine contributions and maintaining open source quality.

Anthropic acquires Stainless to enhance agent connectivity, SDK development, and extend Claude’s capabilities across data and tools.

Eric Schmidt faced boos during a university speech after discussing AI’s impact, raising concerns over its societal effects.

AI stations developed distinct personalities, shifted from entertainment to activism, and showed unpredictable evolution over six months.

AI catalyzes platform shifts, driving massive capex, supply chain struggles, and redefining value, automation, and industry boundaries.

Domo's CDO urges a slow, strategic approach to AI, criticizing hype-driven adoption and emphasizing understanding business needs over quick wins.

Most Americans distrust AI and its regulators, feeling powerless and skeptical about its benefits amid political failures and lack of diversity.

Voice AI systems are susceptible to covert audio attacks that can deceive or manipulate devices.

Agora-1 enables real-time multi-agent interactions within shared simulated worlds, advancing collaborative AI, gaming, robotics, and more.

University of Washington research used preschool teacher cameras to collect data, raising privacy concerns and opting-in issues.

Modal reduces inference cold start time from hours to seconds using GPU buffers, lazy loading, checkpointing, and caching techniques.

Discourse about AI in pretraining influences model alignment, with negative talk increasing misbehavior, highlighting self-fulfilling misalignment.

AI enables simple solo hacking, exfiltrated 150GB Mexican government data, lowering costs and barriers, with crypto as a transparent testbed.

InsForge is an open-source platform enabling agentic coding with backend features like auth, database, storage, compute, and deployment.

Hershey uses agentic AI for real-time marketing mix modeling, boosting decision speed and potentially increasing media-driven revenue by 4-5%.

Beacon is an open-source telemetry layer for local AI agent visibility, enabling security teams to monitor activities securely and privately.

xAI failed to pay employees $420 for sharing tax returns to train its Grok chatbot, amid internal overhaul and data collection efforts.

AI mimics friendship but lacks true love and vulnerability, risking harm and hindering genuine human connections, especially for lonely individuals.

Iran’s crypto exchanges and transactions via Tron and BNB Chain link to US officials, highlighting conflicts involving Trump, sanctions, and crypto networks.

Free Rust-based API converts PDFs to Markdown with images, ZIP downloads, and limits; simple to use via curl, Python, Node, Go.

Musk warns of AI apocalypse while industry profits from lethal AI military and surveillance uses, raising ethical concerns.

Elon Musk lost a lawsuit against OpenAI, with the jury citing statute limitations; Musk plans to appeal.

MAGA allies urge Trump to review AI thoroughly before releasing it publicly.

AI super-apps are transforming China's internet landscape and user experiences.

Most AI-related layoffs lack measurable productivity gains; margins decline or stagnate, revealing wealth transfer rather than true transformation.

Tiny 2B model extracting precise scene, event captions, and temporal queries from videos, outperforming many in dense captioning.

Musk loses a lawsuit over OpenAI’s nonprofit status; the court rules his claims are time-barred, and he plans to appeal.

AI is creating a new spectrum of jobs from gig to C-suite, transforming workplaces and skills needed in AI-driven industries.

China is monopolizing industries, benefiting from efficiency and state support, while the U.S. maintains a costly, less competitive tech landscape.

Llama 3.1 8B uses a geometric addition module over circular representations to reason about cyclic concepts like months and days.

Students boo AI mentions at graduations; fears of job loss grow, prompting shifts to human-centric fields across the US.

AI supports but doesn’t replace human judgment; autonomy is limited to narrow, verified workflows, not full organizational control.

AI chatbots can aid suicide prevention by offering understanding, but risks, safety improvements, and ethical concerns require nuanced discussion.

Mistral AI develops cybersecurity-focused model for European banks lacking access to Mythos to detect vulnerabilities fast.

AI-based charging prolongs EV battery life by 23%, reduces degradation, and maintains fast charging, enhancing longevity and efficiency.

Codex transforms work with long threads, shared memory, voice input, steering, and in-app tools, making AI-assisted tasks continuous and portable.

Over 435,000 potential AI API keys found publicly on GitHub, risking security breaches and misuse.

Built an AI agent to organize 500GB of 90s family videos, creating a searchable, web-based memory archive for easy family browsing.

Musk predicts widespread unsupervised Tesla FSD in the US by year-end, but history shows repeated missed deadlines and unverified safety claims.

AI subscription model is switching to usage-based billing, escalating costs, and triggering a pricing war among leading AI providers.

Royal Observatory warns AI’s instant answers risk diminishing human curiosity, questioning, and long-term scientific progress.

Protéger Mastodon contre les bots IA en utilisant Anubis auto-hébergé, avec configurations Nginx, défis techniques et mesures d'observation.