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 guide a Tesla AI lab. (FT $)
+ Right here’s why Musk and Altman are in courtroom. (MIT Expertise Evaluation)
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 residence. (MIT Expertise Evaluation)
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 $)
+ 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 Expertise Evaluation)
6 The US dangers isolating its automakers by banning a Chinese language EV normal
It’s prohibiting software program that’s dominating world EV markets. (Remainder of World)
7 Elon Musk’s proposed Texas chip manufacturing unit might value $119 billion
It will manufacture chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. (CNBC)
+ Future AI chips could possibly be constructed on glass. (MIT Expertise Evaluation)
8 Why the “attention-span disaster” is misunderstood
Expertise 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 Youngsters 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 1 particular person and utterly the alternative to a different particular person.”
—Mira Murati, the previous CTO of OpenAI, testifies in courtroom that CEO Sam Altman was misleading, Reuters reviews.
One Extra Factor
ALAMY
A quick, bizarre historical past of brainwashing
In the course of the Chilly Warfare, the US ready for a psychic struggle 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 this present day. And now, new applied sciences are altering how we take into consideration thoughts management.
That is how the race for thoughts management modified America perpetually.
—Annalee Newitz
