Spain’s opposition posts AI deepfakes of Sánchez’s wife before election
Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists
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Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms.
What’s Riding on Anthropic Going Public? Nearly Everything.
Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread
Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land
Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs’ cheap prices are “irrational”
Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential
Bottles Creator Mirko Brombin Wants Microsoft Office on Linux, Not Its Clones
Mirko Brombin is working to get Microsoft Office running reliably on Linux. He also thinks the apps cloning Office and Photoshop pixel for pixel cross
Terminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux Terminal
Instead of trying to emulate traditional terminal editors, TTT provides a modern, GUI-like editing experience in the terminal with virtually no configuration required.
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of
OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round
OpenAI has lowered the valuation it is seeking for its new funding round to $1.25tn, from the $1.4tn it pitched earlier this month. Some investors
Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
Peacock series Crystal Lake doesn’t feel like a Friday the 13th movie when you first press play, even though it’s set up to be a prequel to
Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
Welcome to Edition 9.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of SpaceX-related news this week including a couple of Thursday shockers. In one story, the company
US Treasury moves to curb AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia
“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten
Trump says Google’s Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
“No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir.” That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Tweety McTreason
Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 5 Killer Tasks
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may