‘Maybe you’ll love yourself…’: Sam Altman’s latest salvo amid tussle with Elon Musk
The Stargate dispute is part of a long feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, which started with a boardroom battle over leadership at OpenAI.
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DeepSeek sell-off reminds investors of the biggest earnings story holding up the stock market
Big tech’s rapid earnings growth finally slowing has been a risk to the market strategists have been talking about for more than a year.
The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians
A metal fork drags its four prongs back and forth across the yolk of an over-easy egg. The lightly peppered fried whites that skin across the runny yolk give a little, straining under the weight of the prongs. The yolk bulges and puckers, and finally the fork flips to its sharp points, bears down on…
Trump’s AI Push: Understanding The $500 Billion Stargate Initiative
The $500B Stargate Initiative, led by Trump, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, is set to revolutionize U.S. AI infrastructure.
Sophos Annual Threat Report appendix: Most frequently encountered malware and abused software
These are the tools of the trade Sophos detected in use by cybercriminals over 2024
Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws
The first envelope looked innocuous enough. A sticker on the white cardboard sleeve said it came from Hangzhou City in the east of China. Opening it up revealed something more ostentatious: a second blue envelope with a regal gold stamp. “Welcome to the Metaverse on Earth!” the letter inside read. Attached was my new identity…
The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer’s Notebook Are a Failure of Congress
On Monday, federal and state authorities charged Vance Boelter with the murders of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. An affidavit written by an FBI Special Agent, published here by MSNBC, includes photos of a notepad found in Boelter’s SUV which included a long list of people search sites, some of which make it…
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accounts after he uploaded AI training data to his Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers and distributed via an academic file sharing site, contained child sexual abuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety…
Behind the Blog: Brainrot and Brain Power Hours
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the death of Mr. Deepfakes, introducing kids to the Manosphere, and working on big, difficult, high-brain-power scoops. SAM: I’m gonna use my time to give a huge…
Behind the Blog: Unglamorous Work
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss support and saying RIP to FPDS. JOSEPH: I think I might make this into a more full article in a couple weeks when it actually happens, but…