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 appeared to tase 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. ICE agents later took that man to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for medical treatment, […]

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Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, is unusual among attempted assassins — in his normalcy.  His political grievances, laid out in a manifesto and social media posts, are not dissimilar from those of an ordinary Democrat. He believed that President Donald Trump was a lawless, corrupt leader who […]