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The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 — The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list …
Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called "MACROHARDRR", reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called “MACROHARDRR”, reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW — Elon Musk's xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building …
A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead (Zhengdong Wang)
Zhengdong Wang:
A reflection on AI advances in the past decade and how scaling and time-horizon trends might point to far greater capabilities in the decade ahead — People love to predict the future. Back in June, Peter Thiel recounted a conversation he had with Elon Musk.
