VC Masha Bucher, Epstein associate and Day One founder, explains herself

After numerous news reports documented Masha Bucher’s close business and personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bucher took to X to explain.

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE

The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years at the company

Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.

Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies

A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies.

An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics

Czech ice dancers Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek are learning the hard way that LLMs sometimes spit out straight-up plagiarism.

Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company

Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced before.

OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.

Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25

Samsung is going to launch S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC).

This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI

AI lab Flapping Airplanes just landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs have quietly given up on: making models learn like humans instead of vacuuming up the internet. The founding team, made up of brothers Ben and Asher Spector and co-founder Aidan Smith, is… Continua a leggere This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI