Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…That is, until this week, when he announced his appointment to the board of two AI companies: British data center firm Nscale and education startup Efekta. Efekta, a spinout of Swiss company…
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Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer Gadgets
…With the licensing model, we could see more of Neurable's tech in everyday head-based wearables. The headphones use built-in electroencephalography (EEG) sensors to monitor brain waves. That information is…
Motorola’s New Razr Folding Phones Command a Higher Price With Few Upgrades
The company announced the new handsets at an event in Los Angeles, where it also revealed a new pair of Moto Buds 2 Plus wireless earbuds that look eerily like Apple's…
Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
…Going to another corner of the tech industry, this week SpaceX announced a deal with the popular AI startup Cursor, to either acquire the company for $60 billion later this year, or…
Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…In December, Valve announced it was discontinuing its Steam Deck LCD 256GB model, released in 2022, and the 2023 upgrade has all but disappeared. This is the first discontinuation of a major…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…its data centers for itself. “We have sufficient capacity to provide compute for our own AI models, including support of our training and inference demands, and to satisfy the obligations under these…
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
…And this week the Trump administration announced an executive order asking AI companies to give the federal government access to their most advanced artificial intelligence models 30 days before their public release…
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
…Today on the show, we're diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models. And…
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
…At the same time, he is running an AI company, xAI, that puts very few guardrails on what people can do with those models. They famously have launched AI girlfriends that talk…
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
…Generative AI doesn’t just fill the silence—it competes to define what’s seen in the first place. Generative AI Is Getting Harder to Spot Generative AI platforms have been learning…