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For the second year in a row, the Trump administration is proposing slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities. President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal calls for a $1.5 trillion increase to defense spending and would carve billions of dollars out of programs that fulfill trust and treaty responsibilities to tribal nations, including entirely eliminating funding for the Institute for American Indian Arts, the country’s only federally funded college for contemporary Native American arts. The budget proposal released last week also calls for cutting funding for TCUs, as well as funding for two schools operated by the…
“Hey, I’m Bobby from Gas Index, I’m an AI. What’s regular goin’ for today?” Loading audio narration… “Say it again?” an attendant from Manhattan responded — before telling the bot the sign above the station was flashing a $3.89 price for a gallon of regular.”Perfect, thanks,” Bobby said before hanging up.That’s one of nearly 20,000 conversations between a gas station attendant and an AI agent — named Bobby after a character from the animated sitcom “King of the Hill” — created by Matt Cortland and John Fleming.Cortland and Fleming, a married couple based in London, shipped a website and a…
One of Kalshi’s fastest-growing markets has little to do with sports, elections, or any of the other hot topics that people might associate with the prediction market platform. Loading audio narration… It’s about tech layoffs, according to the company’s cofounders.”I think it’s an important market, because people should know and position accordingly,” CEO Tarek Mansour said on an episode of “The Axios Show” released on Thursday morning. “It’s an interesting question about how people should like, think about their jobs and what should they do when going to school, and studying in college.”The market, which asks whether there will be…
One reorg led Google DeepMind to become the lab it is today. Loading audio narration… On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Tuesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shared how his AI lab has caught up with its rivals in the last two to three years.Hassabis said Google combined all the company’s resources, including compute, one of the biggest bottlenecks for AI research. “We’ve basically helped put together all the talent from around the company, sort of pushing in one direction,” he said.This helped Google build the biggest models rather than having two or three versions at the…
As Elon Musk’s xAI merges more closely with SpaceX ahead of the space giant’s blockbuster IPO, the AI company is undergoing yet another major overhaul to its engineering team, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider. Loading audio narration… SpaceX executive Michael Nicholls said the company is “clearly behind” the competition and is taking action to catch up as quickly as possible. Nicholls, the senior vice president of Starlink at SpaceX, has taken on the title of xAI president, a person with knowledge of the change told Business Insider.SpaceX, which acquired xAI earlier this year, is expected to file…
Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That’s the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and, in some markets, WhatsApp. The AI agent Poke launched publicly in March, allowing consumers to access a personal assistant that can take action on their behalf through a familiar interface. Today, Poke can help with everyday needs, like daily planning, managing your calendar, tracking your health and fitness, controlling your smart home, editing your photos, and more, all via text message. Image Credits:Poke/The Interaction Company of California While you may…
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the type of conflict of interest the cloud giant is used to handling. Garman has worked at Amazon since he was a business school intern in 2005, before the launch of AWS in 2006, he told the audience of the HumanX conference taking place this week in San Francisco. When asked about the inherent conflict of working closely with two AI model companies that are fierce (and, arguably, sometimes petty) competitors, he said it’s not a…
Forget lines of code written, engineers have a new way to compete amongst each other. Loading audio narration… Welcome to the era of “tokenmaxxing.”Armed with shiny new AI coding tools, software developers across the tech industry have a wallet full of tokens to spend. Tokens, a measure of computing that determines how AI work is priced, have been floated as a form of compensation for engineers, even cropping up in job descriptions for AI fellowships at OpenAI and Anthropic.But is token spending a good measure of developer productivity?The question has lit up on social media this week as techies debate…
Tubi, the Fox-owned streaming service, announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, giving viewers an easier way to discover its large library of more than 300,000 movies and TV episodes. While competitors like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have experimented with AI-powered recommendations within their own platforms, Tubi is the first major streaming service to build a dedicated experience directly inside ChatGPT. To access the integration, users can install the Tubi app from the ChatGPT app store and begin by typing “@Tubi” in a prompt. From there, they can make natural-language requests like “a thriller for girls’…
We finally have our first glimpse at what Mark Zuckerberg paid $14 billion for. Loading audio narration… Zuckerberg spent months staffing up its Superintelligence Labs division after he determined Meta needed an AI overhaul. It invested billions in Scale AI to bring Alexandr Wang in-house to lead the unit and engaged in a pricey talent war, poaching employees from its competitors with eye-watering pay packages.Now, the AI model Wang’s team has been working on is here: Muse Spark.In a blog post, Meta announced that it was the first in the Muse family of AI models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs.”Nine…