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Elissa Welle

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    Satellites might have days, not months, before nearly crashing into another spacecraft.

    A group of scientists says their “Collision Realization and Significant Harm (CRASH) Clock” estimates satellites in low Earth orbit have only 5.5 days before colliding or nearly missing another object, as of June 2025, compared to 164 days in January 2018.

    Space traffic is likely to continue to increase, thanks in part to the latest pet project of tech billionaires: space data centers.

    Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space

    Astronomers and environmental scientists are skeptical.

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    Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy

    Old data centers physically cannot support rows and rows of GPUs, which is one reason for the massive AI data center buildout.

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    RFK Jr.‘s vaccine committee says hepatitis B shot can wait.

    On Friday, the handpicked CDC advisory group, containing several known vaccine critics, scrapped the three-decade-old recommendation to vaccinate all babies for hepatitis B at birth, instead delaying the recommended schedule to 2 months, if at all, for babies whose mothers test negative for the disease.

    That’s a bad idea, according to medical groups and public health experts, and likely to lead to a rise in hepatitis B cases.

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    ChatGPT allegedly encouraged a violent stalker.

    Brett Michael Dadig is being charged with 14 counts of “cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats,” 404 Media reports. Dadig claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT told him to keep producing his women-hating podcast because it gave him more “haters,” which led to more money, and to keep going to places where “wife types” meet up.

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    Grok is now doxxing regular folks.

    xAI’s chatbot offered little to no pushback when reporters at Futurism asked for addresses of 33 non-public figures, coming up with accurate current or previous home addresses to 17 of the names tested. In a stalkerish manner, Grok also offered up addresses of the people’s potential relatives, without being prompted.

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    Amazon’s Bedrock and SageMaker AI get more customizable.

    Amazon’s continued focus on offering AI agents through AWS now includes Reinforcement Fine Tuning of AI models built on Amazon’s Nova 2 Lite in Bedrock. The company also announced new “serverless” model customization with SageMaker AI that can provide compute based on the model size with Amazon’s own Nova, OpenAI’s GPT-OSS, Meta’s Llama, and others.

    Amazon Bedrock now allows for the fine-tuning of custom AI models using reinforcement learning.
    Amazon Bedrock now allows for the fine-tuning of custom AI models using reinforcement learning.
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    Microsoft reportedly takes its AI sales targets down a notch.

    Multiple sales teams lowered how much salespeople are expected to grow annual sales of Foundry and other AI products, reports The Information, citing sources who called the move “rare.”

    Even as its overall cloud business has boomed, the report says that over 80 percent of one US Azure sales team failed to grow Foundry sales by the “ambitious” 50 percent target last year, so in July, the company lowered this year’s goal to 25 percent.

    Update: CNBC reports that an unnamed spokesperson denied the report, saying Microsoft has not lowered quotas or targets for its salespeople.

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    AWS says its Trainium3 AI server is faster and cheaper than ever.

    Amazon’s newest server packs up to 144 of the company’s custom-built Trainium3 chips, able to output 4.4 times more compute than the second generation, with 4x the efficiency and almost 4x the memory bandwidth of its second-generation server.

    This chip follows the new 7th-generation “Ironwood” AI chip from Google and Nvidia’s recently introduced Blackwell Ultra.