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Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.
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| Bijin Jose / The Indian Express: |
Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade” — Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.| AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside “real displacement by AI” of some jobs — Hold up, let him cook. — Sam Altman is starting to get the sneaking suspicion that companies might … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro — Apple CEO Tim Cook is signaling that Visual Intelligence will be the defining feature of the company's push into wearable AI devices.
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable — Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” …
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Documents submitted by Waymo and Tesla to the US government reveal new info about the remote assistance programs for their robotaxis, staffed by human operators — Self-driving vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain.
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| Garry Tan / Garry's List: |
Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking — Anthropic's new data shows software engineering dominates agentic AI. For founders, that's not a warning. It's a treasure map.
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC — With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms …
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| Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times: |
India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance — The world's most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
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A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups — Neil Shen has long bridged both countries, from working at Sequoia after Yale to his own firm
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios — The game industry's contraction is unrelenting. — ∙ Paid — Tencent has shut down its TiMi Montreal studio without …
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| Niamh Rowe / The Guardian: |
US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects — Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry — A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600+ FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks — Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached … Sponsor Posts
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