1 After years of insults, Anthropic and SpaceX have teamed up
Anthropic will faucet SpaceX’s GPUs to fulfill surging demand. (Axios)
+ Whereas SpaceX will get a marquee buyer for its AI ambitions. (Wired $)
+ Anthropic says the deal will double Claude Code’s price limits. (Ars Technica)
+It’s additionally exploring constructing compute capability in area. (CNBC)
+ Musk beforehand known as Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic.” (Gizmodo)
2 Ex-OpenAI leaders say Sam Altman sowed “chaos” and mistrust
Former CTO Mira Murati stated she couldn’t belief his phrases. (The Verge)
+ He additionally bypassed OpenAI’s security board earlier than a mannequin launch. (Gizmodo)
+ And pitted leaders in opposition to each other. (Forbes)
+ However Elon Musk nonetheless tried to recruit Altman to steer a Tesla AI lab. (FT $)
+ Right here’s why Musk and Altman are in courtroom. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
3 China’s humanoid robots are fueling its subsequent export growth
Morgan Stanley says Beijing has taken an early lead within the sector. (Bloomberg $)
+ Gig staff are coaching humanoids at house. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
4 SpaceX’s IPO plans will give Elon Musk “just about unchecked” authority
And erode typical shareholder protections. (Reuters $)
+ Activists and pension funds are pushing again in opposition to the IPO. (Wired $)
+ Whereas SpaceX is shifting focus from Falcon 9 to Starship. (Ars Technica)
5 Google DeepMind will use the MMORPG Eve On-line for AI mannequin testing
It’s additionally purchased a stake within the recreation’s maker. (Ars Technica)
+ DeepMind additionally just lately constructed a brand new video-game-playing agent. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
6 The US dangers isolating its automakers by banning a Chinese language EV customary
It’s prohibiting software program that’s dominating world EV markets. (Remainder of World)
7 Elon Musk’s proposed Texas chip manufacturing unit might price $119 billion
It could manufacture chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. (CNBC)
+ Future AI chips could possibly be constructed on glass. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
8 Why the “attention-span disaster” is misunderstood
Know-how could also be exhausting consideration reasonably than shortening it. (Atlantic $)
9 Scientists are getting nearer to explaining what causes lightning
New instruments are revealing sudden physics inside thunderstorms. (Quanta)
10 Children have discovered an age verification loophole: faux mustaches
Resourceful youngsters are foiling blocks on grownup web sites. (TechCrunch)
Quote of the day
“My concern was about Sam saying one factor to at least one particular person and utterly the other to a different particular person.”
—Mira Murati, the previous CTO of OpenAI, testifies in courtroom that CEO Sam Altman was misleading, Reuters experiences.
One Extra Factor
ALAMY
A short, bizarre historical past of brainwashing
In the course of the Chilly Battle, the US ready for a psychic warfare with the Soviet Union and China by spending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on analysis into manipulating the human mind.
The science by no means precisely panned out, however residual beliefs fostered by this weird battle proceed to play a job in ideological and scientific debates to at the present time. And now, new applied sciences are altering how we take into consideration thoughts management.
That is how the race for thoughts management modified America ceaselessly.
—Annalee Newitz
