A wave of US tech executives, led by Nvidia’s CEO, rushed to back the development of open-source AI models as divides in the industry widen. Jensen Huang’s letter, which was signed by Meta, Microsoft, and Palantir, argues that open models, which anyone can download and modify, drive innovation and commerce. ...
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Iran and Ukraine wars merge in the Caspian SeaIran and Ukraine wars merge in the Caspian Sea
The Ukraine and Iran wars collided over the weekend, as Kyiv attacked an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea. Tehran accused Ukraine of trying to expand its war with Russia, while Kyiv said the ship contained military cargo headed to Iran. Ukraine also accused Russia of assisting Iran with ...
Russia’s war narrative faltersRussia’s war narrative falters
Russia is suffering from “narrative collapse” in its war against Ukraine, a journalist said, as Kyiv turns the tide in the conflict — on the front lines and in American right-wing media. Within US President Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition, “fault lines on Ukraine are widening,” The Insider editor Michael Weiss ...
Democrats recommend South Carolina to host first 2028 primaryDemocrats recommend South Carolina to host first 2028 primary
Democrats are poised to start their 2028 presidential primary in South Carolina, after the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee recommended keeping the state at the front of their calendar. New Hampshire is likely to hold an earlier contest anyway, as it mandates in state law, and as it ...
Internal videos show how Polymarket trained creators on fake betsInternal videos show how Polymarket trained creators on fake bets
The Scoop Tobin Tang didn’t mince words. “This is fake money,” the Polymarket marketing employee explains in a one-minute, how-to video obtained by Semafor. “I mean real money, obviously,” quips Tobin, cracking a faint smirk in the corner of the screen, where he appears in a black t-shirt and blue ...
It’s time to learn to live with open-source AIIt’s time to learn to live with open-source AI
Reed’s view Now that Kimi K3 has been out for a week, we know a lot more about how the Chinese AI model performs in the real world. Compared to other models from the frontier labs, the early technical read is that it’s kind of “meh.” It doesn’t hold a ...
OpenAI’s Brockman says distillation is a technical problemOpenAI’s Brockman says distillation is a technical problem
OpenAI and Anthropic have pushed the US government to address the distillation of their top models by Chinese companies, framing the practice as a threat to national security and prompting Trump officials to threaten sanctions on Chinese companies. But there’s also a way to use technology to solve the issue, ...
AI fuels a social media marketing scamAI fuels a social media marketing scam
As companies like Meta push increasingly realistic AI-generated videos, the worst parts of social media and AI are converging. In what appears to be a new dropshipping scam flooding Instagram and TikTok, accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are posting AI-generated videos depicting teens getting bullied for trying to ...
Warren steps up her campaign surrogate travelWarren steps up her campaign surrogate travel
The News Bernie Sanders is doing his share, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has thrown herself even more aggressively into Senate Democrats’ debate over their future direction. She’s taking her show on the road this weekend, with an evening stop today for Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan’s Senate campaign, followed ...
Polymarket parent company got Paycheck Protection Program loanPolymarket parent company got Paycheck Protection Program loan
The News Blockratize, the firm that launched Polymarket, received a government loan from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program less than two years before federal regulators fined it $1.4 million for operating an unregistered prediction market. The previously unreported $39,727 loan was approved in June 2020 — the same month Polymarket ...