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Reid Hoffman Calls xAI 'a Complete Train Wreck'
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman delivered blunt verdicts on the AI landscape, panning xAI, questioning SpaceX's AI label, and arguing OpenAI and Anthropic can both win.
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Nvidia's Huang Calls Smuggled-Chip Data Centers a 'Dead End'
Jensen Huang told Nvidia shareholders that data centers built from smuggled chips are a dead end and that U.S. national security comes ahead of any overseas sale.
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Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs as Ellison Leans Into AI
Larry Ellison's Oracle shed roughly 21,000 roles over the past year, with the company citing restructuring and the growing deployment of AI across its operations.
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Vitalik Buterin Dares AI to Unmask His Anonymous Writing
Ethereum's co-founder volunteered his own anonymous writing as bait in a public test of whether AI can strip the mask off pseudonymous crypto contributors.
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Zuckerberg Greenlights Meta Prediction Market App 'Arena'
Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly made a standalone prediction market app, codenamed 'Arena', a top priority at Meta as the betting-on-outcomes sector booms.
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Lei Jun's Xiaomi YU7 GT Sets First Driverless Nürburgring Lap
Xiaomi, the carmaker led by founder Lei Jun, says its YU7 GT lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife with nobody behind the wheel, claiming the first officially timed fully autonomous run of the circuit.
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Fei-Fei Li Splits 'World Models' Into Three Functions
World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li wants to clean up one of AI's messiest buzzwords, sorting every 'world model' into one of three jobs: rendering, simulating or planning.
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Karpathy's Software 2.0 Thesis Evolves Into Software 3.0
Andrej Karpathy updates his influential software framework, defining a new 'Software 3.0' era where AI automates anything humans can objectively verify.
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Torvalds Ships Linux 7.1 With New NTFS Driver, Big Cleanup
Linus Torvalds released Linux kernel 7.1, headlined by a rewritten in-kernel NTFS driver, Intel FRED by default, and the removal of 140,000 lines of legacy code.
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Yann LeCun Bets $1.03B Against the LLM Orthodoxy
After leaving Meta, AI pioneer Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion for AMI Labs on a contrarian wager: that large language models are the wrong road to real intelligence.
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Pavel Durov Slams India's Telegram Ban Over Exam Leaks
Telegram founder Pavel Durov branded India's temporary ban of the app collective punishment of more than 150 million users over leaked medical-exam papers.
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Pichai Tells Stanford Grads to Choose Optimism as Some Walk Out
Google CEO Sundar Pichai urged Stanford graduates to embrace optimism and persistence, even as a group of students walked out in protest of the company's government contracts.