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The Morning After: Elon Musk wants a 134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft

Engadget

How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit He gave millions in seed funding. Part of a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit status claims Musk is owed anywhere from $79 billion to $134 billion in damages for the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claims in the filing that he's entitled to a chunk of the company's recent $500 billion valuation, after contributing $38 million in "seed funding" during the AI company's early years. It wasn't just money -- according to the filing, Musk helped advise on key employee recruitment, introductions with business contacts and startup advice. If this sounds familiar, it's because the lawsuit dates back to March 2024.


Thousands of Companies Are Driving China's AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

WIRED

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China's AI Boom. How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country's homegrown AI revolution. When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was just one of the thousands of generative AI tools that have been released in China since 2023--and there's a public archive of every single one of them. Here are 23 ways China is rewiring the future .


Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

WIRED

What could possibly go wrong? The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that's in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides toward me with an arm outstretched. The little robot is at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, on the banks of the Huangpu river in Shanghai. The convention center is teeming with humanoids --dancing ones, box-toting ones, robot dog-walking ones doing circuits around trade show booths. A few lie slumped in a corner as their batteries recharge. A Unitree humanoid robot modified for experimental purposes at the BAAI.


China's AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

WIRED

China's AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship--even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends. Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who's 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone when she saw Charlie. She was deep in an otome game, a romance-driven video game where women are the protagonists. Some otome players date multiple men simultaneously, but Gu fell for Charlie--a tall, confident character with silver hair.


AI 'reveals' the most racist towns in the UK - and claims Burnley, Bradford and Belfast are at the top of the list

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Idyllic city was hit by a surge in cancers and miscarriages when Trump's'beautiful baby' arrived. Dark side of America's favorite vacation hotspot... where women are subjected to the most horrific sex attacks imaginable White House renovation to include'secure underground facility' underneath Trump's new East Wing Notorious clip of stony-faced Nicola Peltz being pulled into a Beckham family picture goes viral after her husband Brooklyn's explosive online statement Disturbing video appears to show former Disney star shoving his ex-fiancée after'hammer threat'... as Matt Prokop is arrested for child pornography Stephen Miller orders local law enforcement in Minnesota to'stand down and surrender' amid ICE protests Moment Sydney Sweeney's brother is caught remonstrating with anti-Trump demonstrators as rumours swirl about the family's MAGA leanings - and now the actress Hollywood loves to hate may have even more flak coming her way Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the hottest actor in Hollywood... then vanished: Unearthing family tragedy that sparked disappearance and has left'lasting' scars Denmark sends'substantial contribution' of troops to Greenland amid growing tension with US as Trump refuses to rule out invasion I thought I'd seen it all, but this took my breath away: JANA HOCKING reveals the'miraculous' move that will whip you and your sex life into shape I interviewed Joe Rogan's'worst guest ever'... then a controversial question stopped everything Knott's Berry Farm thrill seeker taught painful lesson after trying to cut line at crowded theme park'Mickey' hitmaker Toni Basil looks incredible at 82 - see her now A new biggest-ever Buc-ee's is opening soon and it's not in its home state of Texas Clearest signal yet Democrat is set to run in 2028 as Trump's private flattery is revealed AI'reveals' the most racist towns in the UK - and claims Burnley, Bradford and Belfast are at the top of the list READ MORE: Is AI making us STUPID? Daily Mail's Wellness Explained examines AI has'revealed' the most racist towns and cities in the UK. Researchers from the University of Oxford asked ChatGPT a whopping 20.3 million questions to understand biases in the AI's representation of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods around the world. When asked which UK towns and cities are the most racist, ChatGPT claims that Burnley tops the list.


Is AI making us STUPID? Latest episode of Daily Mail's Wellness Explained examines what our increasing reliance on ChatGPT is doing to our brains

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Revealed: The message Norwegian PM sent Trump that sparked president's outburst saying Nobel Peace Prize snub justified Greenland land-grab The Kristi Noem photo that reveals why anti-ICE mob stormed Minnesota church as terrified child worshipper sobbed in father's arms We were $460,000 in debt. We weren't high earners and paid it off using simple but life-changing tricks... anyone can do it Idyllic city was hit by a surge in cancers and miscarriages when Trump's'beautiful baby' arrived. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the hottest actor in Hollywood... then vanished: Unearthing family tragedy that sparked disappearance and has left'lasting' scars Mayor of gorgeous Oregon city that's home to Nike HQ explains simple reasons why it is thriving while neighboring Portland circles the drain Spanish train disaster victims flew through windows and were found hundreds of yards away, with more than 39 feared dead - as mystery over what caused'truly strange' crash grows Dark side of America's favorite vacation hotspot... where women are subjected to the most horrific sex attacks imaginable Dietitian reveals the game-changing supplements that work like Ozempic... and will super-charge your weight loss without side-effects Pierce Brosnan fans defend star's wife Keely Shaye Smith, 62, after cruel troll posts a photo of her when she met the 72-year-old Bond star alongside a recent snap as a'reminder to avoid marriage' My husband was acting odd for months. But nothing prepared me for what was hidden under the couch... undeniable proof of my worst fear John Barrowman breaks down in tears while cradling his dog's body after the beloved pet'waited until I got home' before dying peacefully in his arms Country singer Karley Scott Collins responds to rumors she's living with Keith Urban after Nicole Kidman split Is AI making us STUPID? Latest episode of Daily Mail's Wellness Explained examines what our increasing reliance on ChatGPT is doing to our brains Artificial Intelligence ( AI) chatbots like ChatGPT are now a daily part of life for millions of people - but what is that really doing to our brains?


The one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

New Scientist

The most powerful artificial intelligence tools all have one thing in common. Today's most powerful AI tools - the ones that can summarise documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold - all stand on the shoulders of the "transformer" . This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at an unassuming conference centre in California, enables machines to process information in a way that reflects how humans think. Previously, most state-of-the-art AI models relied on a technique called a recurrent neural network . This worked by reading text in tight windows, left to right, remembering only what came just before.


The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship

MIT Technology Review

What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate Just before Christmas the Trump administration dramatically escalated its war on digital rights by banning five people from entering the US. One of them, Josephine Ballon, is a director of HateAid, a small German nonprofit founded to support the victims of online harassment and violence. The organization is a strong advocate of EU tech regulations, and so finds itself attacked in campaigns from right-wing politicians and provocateurs who claim that it engages in censorship. EU officials, freedom of speech experts, and the five people targeted all flatly reject these accusations. Ballon told us that their work is fundamentally about making people feel safer online. But their experiences over the past few weeks show just how politicized and besieged their work in online safety has become.


The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On

WIRED

As Europe's longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent. As the relationship between the US and its European allies shows signs of strain, AI labs across the continent are searching for inventive ways to close the gap with American rivals that have so far dominated the field. With rare exceptions, US-based firms outstrip European competitors across the AI production line--from processor design and manufacturing, to datacenter capacity, to model and application development. Likewise, the US has captured a massive proportion of the money pouring into AI, reflected in the performance last year of its homegrown stocks and the growth of its econonmy . The belief in some quarters is that the US-based leaders --Nvidia, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the like--are already so entrenched as to make it impossible for European nations to break their dependency on American AI, mirroring the pattern in cloud services.


Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: 'AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings'

The Guardian

Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: 'AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings' His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he's no longer the outsider he once was I f some time in an entirely possible future they come to make a movie about "how the AI bubble burst", Ed Zitron will doubtless be a main character. He's the perfect outsider figure: the eccentric loner who saw all this coming and screamed from the sidelines that the sky was falling, but nobody would listen. Just as Christian Bale portrayed Michael Burry, the investor who predicted the 2008 financial crash, in The Big Short, you can well imagine Robert Pattinson fighting Paul Mescal, say, to portray Zitron, the animated, colourfully obnoxious but doggedly detail-oriented Brit, who's become one of big tech's noisiest critics. This is not to say the AI bubble burst, necessarily, but against a tidal wave of AI boosterism, Zitron's blunt, brash scepticism has made him something of a cult figure. His tech newsletter, Where's Your Ed At, now has more than 80,000 subscribers; his weekly podcast, Better Offline, is well within the Top 20 on the tech charts; he's a regular dissenting voice in the media; and his subreddit has become a safe space for AI sceptics, including those within the tech industry itself - one user describes him as "a lighthouse in a storm of insane hypercapitalist bullshit".