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Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (338+ words) These days, moles and gophers aren't the only pests you have to worry about tearing up your yard. You also have to watch for Cocos " pink, four-wheeled delivery robots currently metastasizing across cities throughout the US. East Hollywood resident Kaiya…...
Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Succeed Entirely Due to Her Merits, Not Even a Little Bit Who Her D
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (343+ words) Against all odds, Phoebe Gates has managed to raise $35 million for a browser extension, despite the pernicious disadvantage of being Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates" daughter. In an episode of Yahoo Finance"s podcast Opening Bid Unfiltered, the younger Gates complained…...
Pentagon declares Anthropic a threat to national security
17+ hour, 24+ min ago (1100+ words) The Trump administration placed AI firm Anthropic on a far-reaching national security blacklist Friday, directing federal agencies to stop using its technology and banning any other company that does business with the military from working with it, effective immediately. President…...
Rattled Pentagon Goon Melts Down on X After Snub by AI Company
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (561+ words) A top Pentagon official lost his cool with an AI company in full public view after it refused to bow to the demands of the so-called "War Department." Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael's very public meltdown was in response to…...
Anthropic Says It Cannot ‘Accede’ to Pentagon in Talks Over A.I.
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (640+ words) The standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how artificial intelligence can be used in defense continued on Thursday as the A.I. start-up reiterated its reservations, a day before a deadline imposed by the Trump administration for the company to permit…...
Jack Dorsey struck an ’empathetic’ tone as he laid off nearly half of Block
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (691+ words) The CEO of Block is striking a different tone as the company executes massive layoffs. Jack Dorsey, who cofounded the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, announced on Thursday that the company will lay off more than 40% of its…...
OpenAI and Google employees have signed a petition opposing the military’s AI use
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (599+ words) OpenAI and Google employees are warning their companies not to hand over AI to the Pentagon without safeguards. A growing number of current and former staff at OpenAI and Google have signed a joint petition opposing the use of their…...
Word of the Day: interpolate
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (311+ words) 1. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby 2. estimate the value of The word interpolate has appeared in three articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 3 in "5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift's "Showgirl' Movie" by Esther Zuckerman:…...
AI Giant Tells Pentagon Pete Hegseth It Won’t Bow to His Demands
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (699+ words) AI safety and research company Anthropic has told the Pentagon it will not agree to their demands to drop critical safety precautions and grant the U.S. military full access to their AI capabilities. On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth's Department of Defense reportedly…...
‘Incoherent’ Pentagon Pete’s Ultimatum Deemed ‘Insane’
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (526+ words) The defense secretary's desperate ploy to make a top Pentagon contractor cave to his demands is raising red flags for experts. "It doesn't make any sense," Dean Ball, a former AI adviser in the Trump administration who helped craft the…...