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.

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

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 […]

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.

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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