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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.
US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads
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Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
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Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 millio
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis
Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
