Perplexity, a San Francisco-based start-up, reported a 50% revenue increase after pivoting its product focus from search to AI agents, which the company attributes to growing demand for higher-margin agent-based services.
AI has an image prblem, as OpenAI warns AI-driven productivity will displace many U.S. workers and reducing labor income and payroll taxes, and industry leaders like JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon urge retraining, income assistance, tax incentives, and safety-net reforms.
Google and Oratomic preprint papers report AI-enabled algorithms that cut required atoms per qubit from roughly 100–1,000 to about three, prompting Cloudflare to move its quantum-preparedness deadline to 2029 and raising encryption-breaking concerns.
Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview to about 40 companies, which has identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers, prompting private briefings with the U.S. administration and a restricted competitor rollout.
usage, satisfaction surveys, volume/quality of tasks completed
SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord
oil demand destruction
don't they know alternatives don't work when it's cloudy with no wind?
oh wait, fossil fuels don't work when the morons are fighting in the middle east
let's get you to bed grampa
first eat your fiber
let's go Bran-Don
oh wait, actually GPT 5.4-high is still higher, my bad, beats medium effort 5.4
Trump gets to claim he won something, 2 weeks to negotiate how big a toll Iran charges and how big a bribe Trump gets…genius
is it free passage if it's 'with coordination' and with due consideration of the fact that it's mined
Iran and allied actors are using AI-generated animated videos as wartime propaganda, which a senior White House official said drew over 3 billion impressions in four days, with some re-uploads reaching two million views and reposts by state outlets.
Skilled older US professionals displaced by layoffs and age bias are increasingly taking contract AI data-annotation work for clients including OpenAI, Google and Meta, often earning $20-$180+/hr but facing unstable, benefit-free gig roles and uncertain demand.
GitFrog1111 released BadClaude, an open-source tool that overlays a whip UI on Anthropic's Claude to send interrupt commands and speed responses, prompting a viral demo and ethical, moderation and enterprise-adoption concerns.
Flock licensee wants to create a subscription-based (C$200/month) "virtual gated community" tracking all license plates entering the neighborhood and classifying them as known or suspicious.
Tesla began rolling out Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 to early public testers, featuring a rewritten MLIR-based AI compiler/runtime that yields about 20% faster reaction times, vehicle-to-fleet learning, an upgraded vision encoder and Cybertruck parity.
On Collison podcast, CEO Sundar Pichai said Alphabet plans $175–185 billion in 2026 capital expenditure to scale AI across Search, YouTube, Cloud and Waymo, warning of a 2026 supply crunch from memory, wafer starts, power and permitting.
GLM-5.1, released by Z.ai under the open-source MIT License, beats all OpenAI models in arena.ai, achieved SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro, claims other strong benchmarks.
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview flagged thousands of high‑severity vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser and sometimes autonomously developed related exploits; access is restricted to vetted partners.
Anthropic says it will make its best model available to big software partners in closed preview because it's too dangerous for general release.
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
is this making America great?
The nazi mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.
