Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Hoarding Pre-AI Content
July 27th, 2025Via: Ars Technica: Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. “The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior […]
Skydweller: Solar-Powered Drone Can Fly for 90 Days
July 17th, 2025Via: LiveScience: U.S. tech startup Skydweller Aero has teamed up with Thales, a French electronics company specializing in defense systems, to develop a new maritime surveillance drone that can stay aloft far longer than existing machines. Skydweller powers itself purely from solar energy and aims to be capable of continuous flight. The initial flight milestone […]
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
July 6th, 2025I’ve been using Windows 11 for a short time and I was shocked to learn that I was able to simply uninstall Copilot. I was expecting a kludge of reg hacks combined with the group policy editor. Nope. It just uninstalled. (For now…) Via: The Honest Broker: A few months ago, I needed to send […]
Google Offers to Buy Half the Output from Upcoming Fusion Power Plant
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC: Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant?s first commercial commitment to fusion. The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world’s first […]
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10 Billion
July 1st, 2025Via: CNBC: XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched through secured notes and term loans, while a separate $5 billion was secured through strategic equity investment, the bank said Monday. The funding gives xAI […]
“Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain”
June 28th, 2025Via: Futurism: Indiana’s newest cash crop isn’t soybeans or corn; it’s AI data centers — lots and lots of AI data centers. The New York Times reports that Amazon is building a vast complex of AI infrastructure facilities on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland, all meant for startup Anthropic’s project to build an […]
“ChatGPT Psychosis”
June 28th, 2025If you haven’t read, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson recently, now might be the time to dust that one off. —Spoiler Warning— Recall that Snow Crash is a mind virus that is spread both online and as an addictive drug through Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchises. The “faithful” are addicted, brainwashed and suffer from glossolalia […]
Facebook Is Starting to Feed Its AI with Private, Unpublished Photos
June 28th, 2025Via: The Verge: For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those […]
Executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir Join U.S. Army
June 24th, 2025Via: Business Insider: Four top tech execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir have just joined the US Army — no obstacle courses, shouted orders, or grueling marches required. The Army Reserve has commissioned these senior tech leaders to serve as midlevel officers, skipping tradition to pursue transformation. The newcomers won’t attend any current version of […]
Musk Wants Grok AI to “Rewrite the Entire Corpus of Human Knowledge”
June 23rd, 2025Tell us another one, Elon. Via: Coin Telegraph: Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — by first using it to rewrite history. In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will […]
