17+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1784+ words) Elon Musk is not availing himself well in court. The tech mogul and fascism enthusiast is suing Sam Altman and Open AI, the organization he co-founded, for moving the nonprofit organization to a for-profit company. Musk took the stand three…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (596+ words) Three days prior in Indianapolis, an unknown perpetrator fired 13 shots into the home of local Democratic councilman Ron Gibson'while his 8-year-old son was home. Neither were hurt, but a note reading "No Data Centers" was left on the doorstep. Gibson…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (397+ words) The talk may be of God, but what's really at stake'as usual' is Mammon. Tech lords' ferocious opposition to government interference reflects a collective financial investment in AI that's quite literally unprecedented within the private sector. This was an industry…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (669+ words) Claude, Anthropic's large language model, has a lot to answer for. Let's start with this. Given that Anthropic took such a seemingly principled stand against the use of its AI in lethal autonomous weapons, why did the U. S. military use Claude…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1764+ words) Florida became the first state to criminally investigate an AI model on Tuesday, and Attorney General James Uthmeier's charges could lead to big changes in how the technology is regulated. Uthmeier, a Republican, launched a criminal probe into Chat GPT…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1778+ words) The Department of Homeland Security is developing smart glasses that would allow federal agents to identify people using biometric data in real time. Journalist Ken Klippenstein, citing a budget request from DHS, reports that these devices, slated to be released…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (620+ words) Of course, the narrative that AI is destabilizing middle-class work is both very real and hype. But that's exactly what makes it maddening'it's close enough to be terrifying but too ill defined for people to act on. Knowledge workers drift…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (1370+ words) For decades, democratic leadership has tried to market its willingness to craft pro-corporate policy as political sophistication. Last summer, 2028 presidential hopeful Ruben Gallego championed the GENIUS Act, a bill that deregulates parts of the cryptocurrency industry, which directly benefits one…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1806+ words) President Trump is once again posting boomer Jesus slop on Truth Social." The president posted a screenshot of an image of him with Jesus Christ just days after coming under fire for making a post of himself as Jesus Christ....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (200+ words) The Trump White House wants tech companies to publicly commit to ensuring that their data centers won't raise electricity prices, stress local water supplies, or complicate grid reliability, Politico. .. In Wisconsin, for example, at least four communities'De Forest, Caledonia, Yorkville,…...