1 After years of insults, Anthropic and SpaceX have teamed up
Anthropic will faucet SpaceX’s GPUs to satisfy surging demand. (Axios)
+ While SpaceX will get a marquee buyer for its AI ambitions. (Wired $)
+ Anthropic says the deal will double Claude Code’s fee limits. (Ars Technica)
+It’s additionally exploring constructing compute capability in house. (CNBC)
+ Musk beforehand referred to 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)
+ But Elon Musk nonetheless tried to recruit Altman to steer a Tesla AI lab. (FT $)
+ Here’s why Musk and Altman are in court docket. (MIT Technology Review)
3 China’s humanoid robots are fueling its subsequent export increase
Morgan Stanley says Beijing has taken an early lead within the sector. (Bloomberg $)
+ Gig staff are coaching humanoids at dwelling. (MIT Technology Review)
4 SpaceX’s IPO plans will give Elon Musk “nearly unchecked” authority
And erode typical shareholder protections. (Reuters $)
+ Activists and pension funds are pushing again in opposition to the IPO. (Wired $)
+ While SpaceX is shifting focus from Falcon 9 to Starship. (Ars Technica)
5 Google DeepMind will use the MMORPG Eve Online for AI mannequin testing
It’s additionally purchased a stake within the sport’s maker. (Ars Technica)
+ DeepMind additionally lately constructed a brand new video-game-playing agent. (MIT Technology Review)
6 The US dangers isolating its automakers by banning a Chinese EV customary
It’s prohibiting software program that’s dominating international EV markets. (Rest of World)
7 Elon Musk’s proposed Texas chip manufacturing facility may price $119 billion
It would manufacture chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. (CNBC)
+ Future AI chips could possibly be constructed on glass. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Why the “attention-span disaster” is misunderstood
Technology could also be exhausting consideration somewhat than shortening it. (Atlantic $)
9 Scientists are getting nearer to explaining what causes lightning
New instruments are revealing surprising physics inside thunderstorms. (Quanta)
10 Kids have discovered an age verification loophole: pretend 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 individual and fully the other to a different individual.”
—Mira Murati, the previous CTO of OpenAI, testifies in court docket that CEO Sam Altman was misleading, Reuters stories.
One More Thing
ALAMY
A quick, bizarre historical past of brainwashing
During the Cold War, the US ready for a psychic battle with the Soviet Union and China by spending tens of millions 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 task in ideological and scientific debates to at the present time. And now, new applied sciences are altering how we take into consideration thoughts management.
This is how the race for thoughts management modified America ceaselessly.
—Annalee Newitz
