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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Now Trump is trying to rename AI too.

First, it was the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Kennedy Center. Then Lake Ontario. And let’s not forget about the Department of Defense. Now the president is trying to leave his mark on artificial intelligence. The only real surprise is that American Intelligence wasn’t on his short list.

Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Anthropic launched a bio lab.

It’s been a poorly kept secret that the company was working towards building its own wet lab. It was hiring biologists and even bought startup Coefficient Bio in April. Now it’s confirmed to TechCrunch that a lab is up and operating in the Bay Area.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking Cantonese during an interview.

Norwood was on Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss its AI slop movie, Misaligned. There’s a painful lag between questions and answers, and it routinely fails to answer the actual question. But the most surreal moment comes when Norwood glitches mid-answer and starts speaking Cantonese.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
An activist crashed a Canva AI event.

“Best-case scenario, the men handling this technology are completely incompetent. Worst-case scenario, we are all being led into a disaster.” Eventually, the woman was escorted from the building, but not before disrupting the company’s celebration of flooding the world with awful AI-generated fliers.

Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

The chiptune rock band formed in 2004 on forums and remains very online to this day.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
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Former DOJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter on AI slowdowns, competition, and cartels.

Nilay Patel
The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day.

Hayden Field
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Valve has already fixed the Steam Frame’s slow charging speeds.

Valve’s 0.3.0 update for Steam Frame claims “Substantially faster charging while unit is off / sleeping.” It’s true. I used to see 8-watt charging when plugging in a dead unit, and 27-watt charging at peak. Now I’m getting 19-21W charging right away and up to 42W in game.

That’s enough to plug in a dead Frame and start playing right away.

a Steam Frame on a shelf with a USB-C power monitor plugged in displaying 42 watts.
Play and charge: check.
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
CNN reports the US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” AI-generated report.

According to CNN, the US military had planes in the air and armed personnel ready to board a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring because of an intelligence report saying it carried parts for a nuclear weapons program. The only problem? Their sources say that report was an AI-bot-generated hallucination:

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.

Separately, Bloomberg reports a Pentagon investigation into the deadly February 28th missile attack on an Iranian school has identified failures that include “overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology.”