After 1 year of disagreements, Anthropic and SpaceX have teamed up
Anthropic will use SpaceX’s GPUs to meet the growing demand. (axios)
+ While SpaceX finds a major customer for its AI ambitions. (wired $)
+ Anthropic says the deal will double the rate cap for cloud code. (Ars Technica)
+It is also exploring building compute capacity in space. (cnbc)
+ Musk previously called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic.” (gizmodo)
2 ex-OpenAI leaders say Sam Altman sowed “chaos” and distrust
Former CTO Mira Murati said she couldn’t believe his words. (The Verge)
+ They also bypassed OpenAI’s security board before the model release. (gizmodo)
+ And pitted the leaders against each other. (forbes)
+ But Elon Musk still tried to recruit Altman to lead the Tesla AI Lab. (foot $)
+This is why Musk and Altman are in court. (MIT Technology Review)
3 China’s humanoid robots are fueling its next export boom
Morgan Stanley says Beijing has taken an early lead in this area. (bloomberg $)
+ Gig workers are training humanoids at home. (MIT Technology Review)
4 SpaceX’s IPO plans would give Elon Musk “virtually uncontrolled” rights
And destroy specific shareholder protections. (reuters $)
+ Activists and pension funds are opposing the IPO. (wired $)
+ While SpaceX is focusing on Starship from Falcon 9. (Ars Technica)
5 Google will use MMORPG Eve Online for DeepMind AI model testing
It has also bought a stake in the game’s creator. (Ars Technica)
+ DeepMind also recently created a new video-game-playing agent. (MIT Technology Review)
6 US risks alienating its automakers by banning Chinese EV standard
It is banning software that is dominating global EV markets. (rest of the world)
7 Elon Musk’s proposed Texas chip factory could cost $119 billion
It will manufacture chips for Tesla, SpaceX and XAI. (cnbc)
+ Future AI chips may be built on glass. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Why the “attention-span crisis” is misunderstood
Technology can eliminate rather than reduce attention. (atlantic $)
9 Scientists are getting closer to explaining what causes lightning
New instruments are revealing unexpected physics inside the storm. (Quanta)
10 kids found a loophole in age verification: fake mustaches
Resourceful children are circumventing barriers to adult websites. (techcrunch)
today’s thought
“My concern was that Sam was saying one thing to one person and the exact opposite to another person.”
-OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Muratti testified in court that CEO Sam Altman was a fraud, Reuters report.
one more thing
Alami
A Brief, Strange History of Brainwashing
During the Cold War, the United States prepared for a mental war with the Soviet Union and China by spending millions of dollars on research into manipulating the human brain.
The science never came out exactly, but the residual beliefs resulting from this strange conflict continue to play a role in ideological and scientific debates today. And now, new technologies are changing the way we think about mind control.
This is how the race for mind control changed America forever.
-Annaly Newitz
