—Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. Kuglitsch, & Andrea Toreti
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you immediately’s most enjoyable/vital/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 SpaceX is negotiating to promote the Pentagon AI compute
It could present knowledge heart capability value billions of {dollars}. (WSJ $)
+ Deepening ties between Elon Musk’s firm and the DoD. (Reuters $)
+ In the meantime, Anthropic is in talks with Meta to accumulate compute. (CNBC)
+ The compute explosion is simply simply starting. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
2 Trump Media desires $100,000 a month for early entry to Trump’s posts
The premium feed is being pitched to buying and selling corporations and banks. (FT $)
+ It goals to monetize Trump’s market-moving social media posts. (Reuters $)
+ Critics described the plan as “brazen corruption.” (Guardian)
3 ICE shared Medicaid knowledge it wasn’t alleged to have with Palantir
Court docket filings present the information reached the contractor earlier than being deleted. (NPR)
+ ICE is utilizing knowledge dealer instruments to determine “unaccompanied minors.” (Wired $)
4 Apple briefly overtook Nvidia because the world’s most dear firm
The iPhone maker’s earnings sturdiness has impressed buyers. (Reuters $)
+ Whereas Nvidia’s rise has stalled amid shifting AI bets. (CNBC)
5. Politicians are attempting to vary what chatbots say about them
A brand new trade has sprung as much as assist them edit AI outputs. (NYT $)
+ Chatbots can sway voters higher than political adverts. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
6 Washington is opening the door to armed robots
The Pentagon is accelerating AI weapons growth. (WP $)
+ “People within the loop” in struggle is an phantasm. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
7 China’s Moonshot has paused new subscriptions amid surging uptake
Demand for the headline-grabbing Kimi K3 has strained capability. (SCMP)
+ China’s open-source AI is difficult US fashions. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
8 Lab-grown tooth might quickly change fillings and implants
Scientists imagine regenerative medication might remodel dentistry. (BBC)
+ Humanlike “tooth” have been grown in mini pigs. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
9 AI slop on birdwatching boards is placing analysis in danger
It might contaminate information of species. (Guardian)
10 Coronary heart specialists have excellent news in your espresso behavior
Roughly 5 cups per day is okay—and should even be useful. (Gizmodo)
Quote of the day
“Probably the most authoritarian authorities is producing probably the most egalitarian fashions, and what must be probably the most democratic authorities is breeding corporations which can be probably the most authoritarian.”
—Rayan Krishnan, CEO of Vals AI, an organization that evaluates AI efficiency, provides the New York Occasions his tackle the competitors between Chinese language and American fashions.
One Extra Factor
RICHARD CHANCE
The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
A brand new wave of theft is rocking the posh automobile trade—mixing excessive tech with old-school chop-shop methods to snag automobiles whereas they’re in transport.
