Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes
This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick. — alanrozenshtein.com — Meet The Authors
OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management
OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism …
OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management
Accelerating science writing and collaboration with AI.
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product”
“It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.
Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US
will other tech companies face the heat? Here's what the US President said The Economic Times : Trump threatens 25% tariff on iPhones not made in US, targets India production Scott...
Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months
On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...
Coinbase says hackers accessed a “small subset” of users' data, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M to $400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
Coinbase (COIN.O) forecast a hit between $180 million and $400 million from a cyber attack that breached account data of a …
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately”
- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately”
- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs
President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3%
Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage
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Lina Khan says that DeepSeek's breakthroughs highlight that there isn't enough US competition and that foreign startups could surpass Big Tech in AI innovation
When Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its powerful new A.I. model …
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... @traplife : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... We wanted to know why democracy is the worst form of government. So in this week's ‘The Interview’, we...
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs
Google's Genie 2 can turn text into a playable game in real-time William J. Broad / New York Times : Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that the company claims ou...
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Ti...