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Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (Alex Bronzini-Vender/New York Magazine)

Alex Bronzini-Vender / New York Magazine:
Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power  —  At a quiet conference at Yale, the company and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.

Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation  —  US tech billionaire leads $140mn investment into Panthalassa as search for AI power pushes into exotic new frontiers

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. The trial began with […]

How "emotion AI", the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (Ellen Cushing/The Atlantic)

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic:
How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias  —  The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality.

Video Shows ICE Agent Tasing Man Multiple Times Ahead of Bushwick Hospital Standoff

An ICE agent tased a man several times while another agent tried to forcefully drag him out of his car as the man screams in pain and begs for help, as captured in a video obtained by THE CITY. It appears to be the same man who ICE agents later took to Wyckoff Heights Medical […]

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