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Waymo robotaxis, Lime e-scooters set ablaze during LA protests
<p>Several Waymo robotaxis and Lime e-scooters were set ablaze this weekend as unrest in downtown Los Angeles continued. </p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 103 min read
Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns
<p>The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.”</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 72 min read
Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules
<p>In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order 14144 — signed days before the end of his presidency — was an attempt “to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 72 min read
Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust
<p>Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit and that has the power to elect some of the company’s board of directors.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 62 min read
Creators Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube
<p>The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 63 min read
Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?
<p>Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 election campaign, but now the tech mogul is calling for Trump’s impeachment.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 54 min read
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own digital echo chambers
<p>Elon Musk and Donald Trump are smack-talking each other into their own echo chambers.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 54 min read
Elon Musk’s introduction to politics
<p>Elon Musk spent months in government and alongside President Trump. Did his gains outweigh his losses?</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 43 min read
Elon Musk tries to stick to spaceships
<p>Elon Musk’s interview with CBS Sunday Morning seemed to get off to an awkward start, as reporter David Pogue asked the SpaceX CEO about his thoughts on his ally Donald Trump’s policies.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 12 min read
Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’
<p>In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.</p>
Rahul Patil
Jun 110 min read
NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’
<p>The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 312 min read
Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments
<p>An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 312 min read
DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches
<p>The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s DOGE left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 302 min read
Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards
<p>Large corporations and growing startups were wrapped up in the latest move by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era contracts.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 302 min read
White House investigating how Trump’s chief of staff’s phone was hacked
<p>Hackers reportedly accessed Wiles’ phone contacts, which were used to impersonate her.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 302 min read
Report: Elon Musk’s drug use ramped up during the 2024 presidential campaign
<p>Elon Musk increased his drug taking during the 2024 presidential campaign in which he donated around $270 million to help elect Donald Trump.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 301 min read
US imposes new rules to curb semiconductor design software sales to China
<p>Siemens EDA, Cadence, and Synopsys have received notices from the U.S. Commerce Department about new export controls on chip design software to China. </p>
Rahul Patil
May 302 min read
In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military
<p>On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog post. “I am glad to be working with Meta once again,” Luckey is quoted as […]</p>
Rahul Patil
May 293 min read
Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business
<p>If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla’s energy division.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 292 min read
Elon Musk’s stint in the US government is coming to an end
<p>Elon Musk confirmed on Wednesday that he’s ending his stint as a U.S. special government employee and as the de facto head of DOGE.</p>
Rahul Patil
May 291 min read
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