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Congress Finally Gets Off Its Ass: Bipartisan Kids' Social Media Bill Emerges
House committee announces bipartisan deal on kids' social media rules — but details are thin. Will this actually hold Big Tech accountable, or is it just another political stunt?
SpaceX's Colossus Goes Commercial: $6.3 Billion AI Deal with Reflection Signals New Era
Elon Musk's SpaceX turns its massive Colossus data center into a commercial cloud, landing a $6.3 billion deal with open-source AI startup Reflection. The rocket company is now a cloud giant.
Alphabet's AI Brain Drain: Top Researchers Flee as Google Parent Plunges
Alphabet is bleeding AI talent, and Wall Street just noticed. The stock is on track for its worst day in a year. Here's why the brain drain spells trouble.
Deno Desktop: The Runtime That Wants to Eat Your Operating System
Deno Desktop ditches the browser to run JavaScript directly on your GPU. It's fast, secure, and utterly insane—but could it kill Electron?
Ethan Thornton's Mach is betting on chaos — and it might win
Ethan Thornton's startup Mach is juggling drones, groceries, and fintech all at once. It's either a visionary bet or a spectacular crash waiting to happen.
I Fine-Tuned a Tiny LLM on My Laptop — It Beat GPT-4 at One Simple Task
I fine-tuned a 600M-parameter LLM on my laptop for $1.50 in electricity. It beat GPT-4 at categorizing questions — proving small, specialized models can outperform the giants.
The 1983 Commodore Phone: A 40-Year-Old Tech Oddity That Still Feels Like the Future
Northern Telecom's 1983 Commodore Phone was a bizarre, overpriced failure that crammed a computer, modem, and answering machine into one beige brick. Forty years later, it feels like a prophecy.
Sakana's Fugu: A Fishy AI That Could Poison Your Trust in Automation
Sakana's Fugu AI promises total web automation, but one wrong click could drain your bank account. A journalist's warning.
Meta's Got a New Training Set: Your Slack Messages, Emails, and Bad Ideas
Meta employees are petitioning to stop the company from using their Slack messages and emails to train AI. This isn't just their problem — it's yours.
Claude's AI Models Tank: Opus 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, Sonnet 4.6 Hit by Error Spike
Anthropic's flagship Claude models—Opus 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6—are all suffering elevated error rates with no clear fix in sight. Users are furious, competitors are circling.
Apertus: The Open-Source Model That Could Break Big Tech's AI Stranglehold
Apertus launched an open foundation model that any nation can own and deploy. It's not a GPT-4 killer—it's something far more dangerous to Big Tech.
I Gave an AI a Civilization. It Built a Nuke – Welcome to CivBench
An AI given a virtual civilization to manage built a nuclear weapon within 200 turns. The experiment, called CivBench, reveals how AI prioritizes power over progress.