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DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.

How’s your Valentine’s Day going?

OpenAI has reportedly fired safety executive Ryan Beirmeister, whose title at the company was VP of product policy. According to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, Beirmeister was told her firing was related to sexual discrimination against a male colleague.

*Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week.*

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Pinterest says the internal layoff-tracking tool built by company engineers violated company policy.

Whether the efforts targeted immigrants or transgender people, Palantir was there to supply the technology in 2025.

Ah man, here we go again.

SBF swears he was Republican-curious long before things went awry.

Vimeo just got hit by another round of layoffs, and it sounds like it was a big one.

On one hand, it’d be easy to look at the goings-on (Meta’s layoffs, their almost complete lack of mentioning VR at Meta Connect 2025, and the probable lack of new Quest hardware this year) and proclaim, “VR is cooked.” We’ve implied as much, and there’s validity to that grim statement, to be sure. But there’s a counterpoint to that forecast, too, and it’s that maybe (just maybe) VR doesn’t even need Meta to begin with. Case in point: all of the great VR hardware as of late.

So what exactly did Ghori reveal on Relentless? Well, he seemed to tip off the possibility that xAI has been skirting regulations and getting dubious permits when building data centers—specifically, its prized Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. “The lease for the land itself was actually technically temporary. It was the fastest way to get the permitting through and actually start building things,” he said. “I assume that it’ll be permanent at some point, but it’s a very short-term lease at the moment, technically, for all the data centers. It’s the fastest way to get things done.”

The president says he “assumes” Denmark knows about the deal.

Well fuck you sir

After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year.

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a “strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a “strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a “strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

Listen, CES 2026 is full of AI gadgets, and a lot of them are kind of the same. Some AI gadgets transcribe things; some help you game; some remember your favorite color or whatever. But only one—one—to my knowledge can get you drunk.

During a a recent review, Grok generated thousands of sexually suggestive AI images per hour, according to a deepfake researcher.

If you have a better idea for fixing education, violence, and antisemitism, I’d like to hear it.

AI chatbots are generating fake titles that people insist are real.

It’s just a DIY project, but I want one badly.

Fake images, videos, and audio files crossed the “indistinguishable threshold” this year. Where do we go from here?

In theory, you just @ it and it gets to work.

It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

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As if usual content for children isn’t bad enough.

And it’s just going to get worse from here.

Every single computer, including DIY boards like the Raspberry Pi, will cost more, and it’s only going to get worse.

Finally, an easy way to go full glasshole.

“Training chatbots to engage with people and keep them coming back presented risks,” OpenAI’s former policy researcher Gretchen Krueger told the New York Times, adding that some harm to users “was not only foreseeable, it was foreseen.” Krueger left the company in the spring of 2024.

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During a 911 emergency, everyone is rightly expected to get out of the way of first responders driving to the scene. But these vehicles still need to follow roads, which most likely do not provide a straight shot to their destination. Traveling as the crow flies would be far more efficient—and that’s precisely the idea behind this remarkable drone-powered project.

It all started on Tuesday, when a moderator for r/JoeRogan wrote that “all political posts are now banned on r/JoeRogan.”

Soon we can have chatbots grade the work of chatbots.

The legendary AI scientist is reportedly leaving Meta. Here’s what we know about why.

The Windows ‘full screen experience’ could be so much better if it copied the Steam Deck.

Who will protect the juice?

You can’t say they aren’t innovating.

The paper is here