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SpaceX’s attempt to give investors a voice in its first earnings call is not going entirely to plan.Ahead of the rocket company’s first earnings since its record-breaking IPO, SpaceX set up an online forum for shareholders to submit questions for Elon Musk and other executives.The forum — which SpaceX said was built with its AI tool Grok — has been filled with crypto references, memes, and posts promoting Asteroid, a Shiba Inu plushie the company has adopted as its mascot.”Will Asteroid (your mascot) go to Mars?” read one of the top-voted posts, while another called for SpaceX to expand its…

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them. “AI, paradoxically, increases the demand for professional services,” says Efrat Rapoport, a former Salesforce executive whose new company, June, emerged from stealth Monday morning. “The industry’s answer to AI implementation is, ‘let’s hire more and more and more people.” Rapoport and her three cofounders — Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat — have a different idea about…

Flock cameras are in thousands of communities across the country and often hide in plain sight.A Flock camera is an automated license plate reader, or ALPR, made by the public-safety technology company Flock Safety.The cameras are commonly installed along roads, at intersections, near neighborhood entrances, and around businesses or other private properties.When a vehicle passes, the camera captures an image and uses machine learning to turn its license plate, color, make, model, and other details into searchable information.That makes them useful for those deploying them, like the police. Law enforcement agencies say Flock’s technology can help them track down vehicles…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Sanchez, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I would say 99% of my clients cite burnout as one of their biggest problems.As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I see a caseload of about 18 to 20 clients a week, most of whom are very high-performing individuals in Silicon Valley, such as business owners, executives, founders, and people in management within tech.AI burnout is a newer phenomenon I’ve seen. AI enables us to do deep work on…

Nvidia’s biggest competitive advantage is no longer as untouchable as it once seemed.For two decades, Nvidia’s crown jewel wasn’t just chips; it was the software that turned them into the building blocks of AI, known as CUDA.Short for Compute Unified Device Architecture, CUDA is the brainchild of longtime Nvidia executive Ian Buck, who heads high-performance computing. It took years to build, with ready-made code for common AI tasks, tools to find bugs, and software that lets thousands of chips work together to train models.Now, some believe AI could eventually automate one of the industry’s hardest jobs: building the software that…

We need compulsory disclosures for AI cyberattacks, says the CEO of Hugging Face.In an interview with CBS aired on Sunday, Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face.”These problems happened on unreleased models. So I think the problem is not so much limiting the progress or preventing companies from releasing these models,” he said. “It’s actually the opposite. It’s giving access to more people so that they can defend themselves.”Late last month, Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, said that it had experienced a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said.Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be a gold standard early learning program. Its regulations, which stretch more than 100 pages, outline requirements on everything from child-to-teacher ratios and child health screenings to family engagement. The Republican administration would replace those regulations with around a dozen pages of rules, leaving most…

With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enroll in classes on artificial intelligence.But the senior at Virginia Commonwealth University began to see it differently as she looked into graduate psychology programs that explore human behavior in the workplace, which is quickly being upended by machine learning. Maeba, 21, is now pursuing a minor in AI.“It’s giving me an edge and standing out,” she said.Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers — work increasingly done by AI agents — and college enrollment in computer and information science programs has been…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems. Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not  “some new advanced thing.” “It was more like Nixon’s people breaking into Watergate than some real stealthy cyber-op,…

Sony has been building out its Bravia Theater audio lineup for years now, creating a diverse array of options with minimalist designs and simplified control. From stripped-down soundbars like the Bravia 5 to unique configurations like the wireless Quad system, there’s something for nearly any use case.The new Bravia Theater Trio is built with larger TV screens in mind. Rather than a single-bar design, it features a center speaker for dialogue and two wireless, column-shaped side speakers that can be placed on either side of your screen. This enables a wider left-to-right soundstage than most traditional soundbars, which can’t stretch…