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Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (482+ words) Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders" AI wealth fund. Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even…...
You won't believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1619+ words) I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard. Amid what one judge called an "epidemic" of fake AI-generated case citations bogging down courts, some common excuses are emerging from lawyers hoping to…...
Tesco moving 40, 000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's "abusive conduct
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (386+ words) Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings. Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40, 000 server workloads off of VMware amid "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco,…...
AI coding agents can autonomously direct robot training
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (309+ words) NVIDIA's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents. What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a "generous token budget" for teaching the robots various tasks? The…...
Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (387+ words) Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality. Good things take time, but not all things that take time are good. The jury is still out on the Google Home Speaker, but it certainly took a while…...
Trump admin helps x AI fight pollution lawsuit, says military needs Grok for war
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (288+ words) NAACP lawsuit says x AI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center. The Trump administration is trying to help Elon Musk's x AI Corp. beat a Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement…...
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (303+ words) Ars Technica Last month, Anthropic announced a billing change that would have substantially increased costs for heavy users of its automation-focused Claude Agent SDK, including many third-party apps. On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes…...
Leaked financial docs show Open AI is losing billions of dollars a year
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (510+ words) Ars Technica As Open AI files SEC paperwork ahead of an expected initial public stock offering, newly leaked financial documents show a company with quickly growing revenues that are currently being overwhelmed by even larger expenses. The audited financial statements,…...
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (552+ words) Pentagon also claims 1. 5 million personnel are using generative AI tools. The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have…...
Space X will acquire coding tool Cursor to compete with Anthropic, Open AI
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (388+ words) Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can. Space X will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It comes just…...