Elissa Welle

When I wrote about Nike’s “neuroscience-based” Mind 001 and 002 shoes, I thought they looked uncomfortable. The 22 nodes in each shoe are meant to stimulate your foot’s pressure points and relax your mind, and those nodes “hurt,” according to shoe reviewer Chris Chase at WearTesters.

The Atlantic reached out to a number of top investors in Elon Musk’s AI company in response to the flood of nonconsensual deepfakes generated by Grok on X. They said nothing. Other companies that provide infrastructure to xAI — Nvidia, Google, Apple, Oracle, and AMD — also kept quiet.

Two days after Nick Benson asked for donated dashcams in order to document the behavior of federal immigration agents flooding his city, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by federal agent Jonathan Ross.

In Virginia, environmental group Food & Water Watch found that one permanent data center job is created for every $13 million invested. It estimates that data centers account for 0.01 percent of US jobs, but 4.4 percent of electricity consumption, and is petitioning Congress to end all new data center construction.

That’s what some AWS employees call the company’s own AI model Nova due to its lackluster performance compared to other commercial models, Amazon insiders told The Information. Company leaders are reportedly starting to worry about how reliant AWS’s flagship AI products, such as Rufus and Kiro, are on Anthropic’s AI models.