Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims
Musk texted OpenAI’s president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman “will be the most hated men in America.”
Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.
Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg’s investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users’ information with advertisers.
Amazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses
The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.
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Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals
Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today’s refrigeration technology.
Doordash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.
Why Humans Are Still More Cost-Effective Than AI Compute
The economics of AI don’t always match expectations. High compute, infrastructure, and reliability costs mean human labor remains the more cost-effective option across many real-world tasks. The post Why Humans Are