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Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly credited a photo of Matt and Susan Smith to Jeff Miller at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The photo was taken by David Wahlberg. Originally moved Aug. 30, 2025.- – -Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. While lugging a mattress up the stairs, Matt Smith lost his grip, fell on a post and broke two ribs. The pain afterward was so intense that when he got in or out of the car, he bit down on wooden sticks. Extra-strength acetaminophen, also known…
Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves. Crucial to that mission was Dojo, a custom-built supercomputer designed by Tesla to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some automated driving tasks, but still requires an attentive human behind the wheel. But Tesla thinks with more data, more compute power and more training, it can cross the threshold from almost self-driving to full self-driving. And that’s where Dojo was supposed to come…
AI firm Anthropic has raised a $13 billion Series F round that brings its post-money valuation up to $183 billion – funds the company says will be used to grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion. Iconiq co-led the round with Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to the company’s blog post. Other backers include a string of institutional investors, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and asset managers, such as Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Qatar Investment Authority, and more. “We…
Web publishing platform WordPress is introducing an early version of an AI development tool, which WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg described as a “V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” — V0 and Lovable being references to popular “vibe coding” services for building software using prompt-based, AI interfaces. Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments. During his keynote address, Mullenweg briefly demonstrated how Telex would allow users to create Gutenberg blocks — or the modular bits of text, images, columns, and more…
For years, Elon Musk has spoken of the promise of Dojo, the AI supercomputer that was supposed to be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It was important enough to Musk that in July 2024, he said the company’s AI team would “double down” on Dojo in the lead-up to Tesla’s robotaxi reveal, which happened in October. After six years of hype, Tesla decided last month to shut down Dojo and disband the team behind the supercomputer in August 2025. Within weeks of projecting that Dojo 2, Tesla’s second supercluster that was meant to be built on the company’s in-house…
NABALANGA, Uganda (AP) — Look closely and you will see them.Atop dirt floors in dim mud huts. At a stream on an arduous walk for water. Beneath church steeples and leaking roofs and a brilliant sun.In a land known for its massive number of young, a population of the old is quietly ballooning.It is easy to miss in a country like Uganda, home to one of the world’s youngest populations, where half of its people are under 18 years old. But beyond the frenetic streets of its cities, villages are beginning to swell with older people. It is a familiar…
An over-the-counter nasal spray which has been used for years as a safe and effective treatment for seasonal allergies could potentially prevent Covid infections, according to clinical trial results released Tuesday.The antihistamine azelastine works as an antiviral against a range of respiratory infections, including influenza, RSV and the virus that causes Covid, a growing number of studies have shown.German scientists at Saarland University Hospital recruited 450 adults, mostly in their early 30s. The first group of 227 participants tested a puff of the nasal spray in each nostril, three times a day. The other 223 were instructed to do the…
Klarna employees, including engineers and people in marketing, are being told their jobs are no longer needed and reassigned to customer support, after its CEO acknowledged that earlier AI-driven cost-cutting went too far.Founded in 2005, the buy-now, pay-later firm plans to IPO soon, seeking to raise up to $1.27 billion, according to an SEC filing on Tuesday. As Klarna prepares to go public, the firm has recently been informing staff that their roles are no longer required, redirecting them into customer support positions via an internal talent pool, according to three current employees who spoke on condition of anonymity as…
Artificial intelligence chatbot makers OpenAI and Meta say they are adjusting how their chatbots respond to teenagers asking questions about suicide or showing signs of mental and emotional distress.OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, said Tuesday it is preparing to roll out new controls enabling parents to link their accounts to their teen’s account.Parents can choose which features to disable and “receive notifications when the system detects their teen is in a moment of acute distress,” according to a company blog post that says the changes will go into effect this fall.Regardless of a user’s age, the company says its chatbots will…
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. The new guardrails come in the aftermath of the suicide of teenager Adam Raine, who discussed self-harm and plans to end his life with ChatGPT, which even supplied him with information about specific suicide methods. Raine’s parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI. In a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged shortcomings in its safety systems, including failures…