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- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue
Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.
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00:04:30 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available
Moonvalley's Marey AI video generation model is open to the public. The monthly subscription is available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99.
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00:04:53 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers
Arbor Energy's carbon-removing power plant is inspired by SpaceX's rocket engines.
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00:04:36 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee ... plus TikTok's new app, Hidden AI prompts, and EU AI legislation
It’s a sad weekend over at Bluesky, where one of the best accounts has disappeared — though we can still hope for its resurrection. Also, TikTok is developing a new version of its app for U.S. users …
00:06:57 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate — but that’s not the whole story
While AI may be the catalyst behind the recent wave of data company M&A, the market was ripe for consolidation.
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00:07:42 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.
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00:05:19 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes
The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service…
00:03:28 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Figma moves closer to a blockbuster IPO that could raise $1.5B
The financials are impressive and founder CEO Dylan Field already cashed out $20 million worth of shares last year.
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00:04:10 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman
Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASA’s flagship Artemis program.
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00:03:33 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Tesla sends driverless Model Y from factory to customer to promote its robotaxi tech
The car traveled around 15 miles on highways, surface streets, and even a roundabout. But many questions remain about the stunt.
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00:05:20 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — id…
00:05:51 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is acti…
00:05:21 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
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00:05:27 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
SCOTUS porn ruling, Denmark clamps down on deepfakes, and Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold a Texas law requiring websites with “sexual material harmful to minors” to verify the ages of all visitors. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC), a t…
00:05:58 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Redwood Materials launches energy storage business and its first target is AI data centers
Redwood Materials has launched a new business — taking old EV batteries to store energy and help power businesses.
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00:07:23 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue, plus people use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. Also, a report by…
00:07:00 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on th…
00:03:24 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back…
00:05:45 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant
Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides…
00:03:45 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks
Kodiak Robotics has partnered with driverless car-sharing startup Vap to bring a remote-driving system into its self-driving trucks operation.
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00:05:19 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
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