Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…Basalt is just beginning to solicit potential government and commercial customers. The company also has to show that its bet on using AI to automate flying satellites works. At other companies, humans…
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China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
…against US AI data centers.” As evidence it cites stories and videos about the anti-data-center trend and rising energy costs, both topics that American and other international outlets have published…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
…The International Energy Agency has been doing these reports [on AI and energy use]. I was talking to them, and they were like, other countries realize that the IEA gets their numbers…
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
…at the AI firm Sapient Intelligence. Fraught Links The controversy reflects the increasingly fraught political landscape that top researchers, many of whom have been long accustomed to collaborating with international colleagues, now…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…But in other ways, the team-up makes perfect sense. “This is a fascinating development,” says Scott Singer, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who studies AI governance and…
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
After a nearly 90-day internet shutdown, connectivity started to trickle back into Iran this week amid internal political power struggles and ongoing negotiations with the US to end its war with…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…SpaceX has experienced a bunch of them beyond the governance details. Reporting from The Information revealed sales from Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service, reached about $11.4 billion last year. The…
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
Customer service calls and chats with the Sears Home Services AI bot Samantha were exposed and publicly accessible until a researcher reported the situation—revealing personal details from calls and chats, including…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…Access Is the New Bottleneck Commercial low-Earth orbit fleets like Planet Labs and Maxar operate differently from government-owned systems—and access is the main constraint. Governments receive priority tasking, while…
The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…a partnership with Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike to deploy his new private AI technology, known as Confer, for Meta AI. The move, announced by Marlinspike this week, could protect millions of conversations…