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1 After years of insults, Anthropic and SpaceX have teamed up
Anthropic will faucet SpaceX’s GPUs to fulfill surging demand. (Axios)
+ Whereas SpaceX will get a marquee buyer for its AI ambitions. (Wired $)
+ Anthropic says the deal will double Claude Code’s fee limits. (Ars Technica)
+It’s additionally exploring constructing compute capability in house. (CNBC)
+ Musk beforehand referred to as Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic.” (Gizmodo)

2 Ex-OpenAI leaders say Sam Altman sowed “chaos” and mistrust
Former CTO Mira Murati stated she couldn’t belief his phrases. (The Verge)
+ He additionally bypassed OpenAI’s security board earlier than a mannequin launch. (Gizmodo)
+ And pitted leaders towards each other. (Forbes)
+ However Elon Musk nonetheless tried to recruit Altman to steer a Tesla AI lab. (FT $)
+ Right here’s why Musk and Altman are in courtroom. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

3 China’s humanoid robots are fueling its subsequent export increase
Morgan Stanley says Beijing has taken an early lead within the sector. (Bloomberg $)
+ Gig employees are coaching humanoids at house. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

4 SpaceX’s IPO plans will give Elon Musk “nearly unchecked” authority
And erode typical shareholder protections. (Reuters $)
+ Activists and pension funds are pushing again towards the IPO. (Wired $)
+ Whereas SpaceX is shifting focus from Falcon 9 to Starship. (Ars Technica)

5 Google DeepMind will use the MMORPG Eve On-line for AI mannequin testing
It’s additionally purchased a stake within the sport’s maker. (Ars Technica)
+ DeepMind additionally just lately constructed a brand new video-game-playing agent. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

6 The US dangers isolating its automakers by banning a Chinese language EV normal
It’s prohibiting software program that’s dominating international EV markets. (Remainder of World)

7 Elon Musk’s proposed Texas chip manufacturing unit might price $119 billion
It could manufacture chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. (CNBC)
+ Future AI chips might be constructed on glass. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

8 Why the “attention-span disaster” is misunderstood
Expertise could also be exhausting consideration relatively than shortening it. (Atlantic $)

9 Scientists are getting nearer to explaining what causes lightning
New instruments are revealing surprising physics inside thunderstorms. (Quanta)

10 Youngsters have discovered an age verification loophole: faux mustaches
Resourceful youngsters are foiling blocks on grownup web sites. (TechCrunch)

Quote of the day

“My concern was about Sam saying one factor to at least one individual and utterly the alternative to a different individual.”

—Mira Murati, the previous CTO of OpenAI, testifies ‌in courtroom that CEO Sam Altman was misleading, Reuters experiences.

One Extra Factor

ALAMY

A quick, bizarre historical past of brainwashing

Throughout the Chilly Conflict, the US ready for a psychic struggle with the Soviet Union and China by spending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on analysis into manipulating the human mind. 

The science by no means precisely panned out, however residual beliefs fostered by this weird battle proceed to play a job in ideological and scientific debates to this present day. And now, new applied sciences are altering how we take into consideration thoughts management. 

That is how the race for thoughts management modified America endlessly.

—Annalee Newitz