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Elon Musk dropped some big names on Tuesday as he sought to convince an Oakland federal jury that he is serious about AI safety. Loading audio narration… He told the nine-person jury that he had a one-on-one meeting with former President Barack Obama in 2015. Instead of asking for favors for his company, he “spent an hour” warning Obama about the dangers of AI, which he said “no one was really using” at the time.Musk also testified that Larry Page called him a “speciest” for being “pro-humanity” over AI in 2015, when Page was Google’s CEO.”I thought it was extremely…

To stay or to leave: It’s the question many workers wrestle with for months, if not years. Loading audio narration… While job-hugging may feel safest in this employment market, some employees are still choosing to walk away from cushy jobs, and one former Microsoft engineer shared his framework for making that decision.In an episode of Steve Huynh’s, “A Life Engineered” podcast released Monday, Kun Chen, a former engineer at Microsoft, Meta, and Atlassian, said that he used a simple test to decide whether it was time to leave. Chen, said he decided to leave Microsoft when he realized he was…

Yesterday’s Claude Code costs are not today’s. Loading audio narration… More specifically, sometime in the last few weeks, Anthropic more than doubled its public estimates for how much an enterprise developer and almost all average users spend on tokens for Claude Code.Anthropic now says that the average cost per developer per active day is $13, with costs remaining below $30 per active day “for 90% of users.””Across enterprise deployments, the average cost is around $13 per developer per active day and $150-250 per developer per month, with costs remaining below $30 per active day for 90% of users,” Claud Code…

The Samsung S95H is the brand’s latest premium OLED TV, and after spending some hands-on time with it, I’m impressed. This is the company’s brightest OLED yet, and it’s also the brightest OLED I’ve tested, period.That’s a big deal. For years, Mini LED TVs have held a clear advantage over OLEDs in sheer brightness. OLEDs have remained the go-to option for pixel-level contrast and perfect black levels, but Mini LED models have been better equipped to deliver the kind of punchy picture that stands out in rooms with a lot of light. The S95H closes that gap more than any…

For years, Mel Scott did what most active, health-conscious consumers do: she trusted the words “protein” and “clean” on the front of the package of protein bars. Bars marketed as fuel for performance, recovery, and convenience became something she would grab between workouts, during travel, or when real food wasn’t available. It wasn’t until her health began to unravel that she started questioning what those snacks were really made up of. “I didn’t realize that over all those years of consuming those products, I was hurting my gut,” Scott told Muscle & Fitness. The symptoms escalated, from leaky gut, followed…

Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no longer has exclusive rights to any of its products, Amazon started gloating. After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a “very interesting announcement.” That agreement solved OpenAI’s problem of allowing AWS to offer its products, an issue that crystalized after it signed an up-to-$50-billion deal with Amazon. Amazon announced on Tuesday that AWS’s Bedrock service now has OpenAI’s latest models, its code-writing service Codex, and a new product for creating OpenAI-powered AI agents. Bedrock…

Amazon launched a new AI-powered feature on Tuesday that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses generated in real time. The responses are delivered by what the company calls “AI-powered shopping experts,” which present information in a natural, discussion-style format. The new “Join the chat” feature aims to save customers time by providing key product details without requiring them to scroll through lengthy descriptions or reviews. The AI pulls together insights about product features, customer feedback, and other relevant information. For example, shoppers can ask questions like whether a coffee maker is suited for beginners…

Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense access to its AI for classified networks, essentially allowing all lawful uses, according to multiple news reports. This deal follows Anthropic’s public stand against the Trump administration after the model maker refused to grant the DoD the same terms. The Pentagon wanted unrestricted use of AI, whereas Anthropic wanted guardrails to prevent its AI from being used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Because Anthropic refused those use cases, the DoD branded the model maker a “supply-chain risk” — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. Anthropic and the DoD are…

An Army Special Forces sergeant pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to felony charges of using classified military secrets about the capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on Polymarket. Loading audio narration… Gannon Van Dyke , 38, appeared in federal court in Manhattan, answering with a brisk “Yes, your honor” when asked if he had read his indictment and discussed it with his legal team.He stood to enter his not guilty plea, again answering crisply.Van Dyke was then released on $250,000 bond. His travel is restricted to California, where he lives, New York, where he…

A Google DeepMind employee said that he was “incredibly ashamed” to be a researcher at the company after it signed a deal with the Pentagon for classified operations. Loading audio narration… “I’m speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful,” Andreas Kirsch, a research scientist at Google DeepMind working on AI, wrote in a Tuesday post on X.Kirsch cited a Monday report from The Information that Google had signed a deal allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI technology in classified settings. More than 600 Google employees had…