Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
We’re Already Living in an Alien Invasion Movie
June 20th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary School
June 19th, 2026Via: Reuters: Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ?use in the education of older children to prevent a ?negative impact on learning, the country’s prime minister said on Friday. Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in […]
Leak: OpenAI $38.5 Billion Net Loss [???]
June 16th, 2026Via: Runtime Wire: Sam Altman (@sama)’s OpenAI lost $38.53 billion attributable to the company in 2025, according to audited financial documents viewed by Ed Zitron and independently verified by the Financial Times, a set of figures that an Ars Technica story pushed into broader circulation Tuesday. The documents themselves are not public. But the reported […]
SpaceX to Acquire Cursor for $60B
June 16th, 2026Via: TechCrunch: SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around Elon Musk’s AI company […]
Cryptocurrency Miners Go Back to GPUs… for AI
June 13th, 2026AI companies buy up nearly all the GPUs, RAM and SSDs: Check Crypto miners turn to renting rigs for AI, buying up what remains of “consumer” grade equipment: Check People who mostly hate AI, and try to avoid it, pay a lot more for a lot less when trying to purchase a computer: Check Six […]
U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY
June 13th, 2026Update: Amazon Tipped U.S. Government on Jailbreak Via: Matthew Berman: — Ahh, ye olde oh shit moment? Or, does this have more to do with the friction between Anthropic and the U.S. Government? Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial […]
And Now… U.S. Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
June 12th, 2026Via: Wired: In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, […]
Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
June 12th, 2026Via: CBS: Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share and its stock soared in its stock market debut.
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
June 11th, 2026Via: DroneXL: Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and […]
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Bag Holders – You Might Become One of Them
June 11th, 2026Hint: Retirement funds. Via: Andrei Jikh: Focus on SpaceX:
