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The Department of Justice on Monday sided with xAI in a lawsuit that sought to stop the company’s use of dozens of unpermitted natural gas turbines near its Memphis data centers, according to Wired. The DOJ said if the NAACP, which filed the lawsuit in April, prevails, the result would undermine “American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.” The memorandum filed by the Justice Department said that Grok is one of four AI models that support “mission-critical operations,” such as its recent…
There aren’t many success stories to refer to when it comes to AI hardware. Plaud, which makes AI-powered notetakers, is trying to become one by targeting professionals who take a lot of meetings. The company said it has sold more than 2 million of its devices, including Plaud Pins and credit-card-styled gadgets that stick on the back of the phone. It also said that its subscription business has reached more than $100 million in annualized revenue run rate. Plaud pointed out that many AI companies often rely on digital documents and prompts typed from memories. Its argument is that its…
Roberto Lopes played a star role in one of the World Cup’s most shocking results on Monday, but it may not have happened without LinkedIn.Also known as Pico, the 33-year-old defender was born in a Dublin suburb to an Irish mother and a father from Cape Verde, a Portuguese-speaking island nation off the west coast of Africa.He has spent the last 16 years playing in Ireland’s top division but only made one international appearance for the country, at the Under-19 level, back in 2011. For some years, Lopes only played soccer part-time while working in a bank, he told FIFA.It looked…
It appears using AI as a cover story for cutting jobs is fast falling out of fashion. Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs this year citing the need to restructure their teams to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note to employees announcing that the company is letting go 10% of its full-time employees, or about 290 people. Nor did the company’s regulatory filing announcing the move, which instead framed the cuts as a restructuring exercise. Still, Tenev did say the company…
Codex vibe coders can get back to work after some hiccups earlier this morning.OpenAI acknowledged that Codex was experiencing “elevated errors” as users complained about issues with the AI coding tool.”Oy,” OpenAI’s Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux wrote on X. “We are aware that some Codex users are experiencing high error rates with ‘model at capacity’ and are working to bring things back to being stable.”The initial error on OpenAI’s dashboard was first listed at 6:32 a.m. Eastern Time.As of 9:48 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, OpenAI’s status indicator had changed to green with the message “All impacted services have now…
SpaceX passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, after its stock price climbed 20% on Monday and more than 8% in early trading Tuesday, pushing its valuation past $2.7 trillion. That’s despite Amazon turning a $78 billion profit in 2025 on $717 billion in sales last year, compared to SpaceX’s $4.9 billion loss on $18.7 billion in revenue. SpaceX has recently added new revenue streams in the form of compute leasing deals with Anthropic and Google, though, and the company has added $1 trillion to its valuation since going public on Friday. Tuesday’s stock price jump…
As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid. Errors pop up in even the smartest models, and while there are ways to catch those errors, the industry is still figuring out the best way to do it. Probably, which just raised $9 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is trying to build a more rigorous way to catch those errors. As founder Peter Elias (pictured above) puts it, the company’s goal is to prevent hallucinations and simple factual errors from ever reaching the user, and achieve the kind of 99.99% accuracy that’s common in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Education Department, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education. With the transfers announced Tuesday, the vast majority of Education Department functions now have been assigned to other agencies.Trump, a Republican, campaigned on shutting down the Education Department, saying he would “move education back to the states where it belongs.” While only Congress can close the department, Trump’s education secretary, Linda McMahon,…
Tech insiders can’t stop talking about “Le Chaton Fat,” a supposedly world-beating AI model from Mistral. There’s just one problem: It seems to be fake.The meme exploded over the past few days after a series of social media posts claimed that French AI startup Mistral had secretly developed a frontier model called “Le Gros Chaton” — French for “the fat kitten” — that outperformed rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic.The joke has spread so widely that some people outside the AI bubble have started asking whether the model is real.French technology news outlet Numerama says Le Chaton Fat — which mixes…
The next big battlefield for newsletter platforms is AI chatbots.In a competitive market, platforms like Beehiiv, Substack, and Ghost have been duking it out to win over creators with new features like social feeds, videos, and podcasting. Ultimately, the platform that most seamlessly integrates with writers’ daily workflows may win the day. Lately, that means finding ways to work with ChatGPT and Claude.Beehiiv exclusively told Business Insider that it’s rolling out a new feature on Tuesday for paid users that allows them to use chatbots to automate publishing tasks like adding meta descriptions to images, tagging posts, and tweaking the…