Podcast Episodes

If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?;plus, Florida and Texas move to block Flock cameras over privacy concerns

The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.

Also, Flock's searchable netwo…

14 hours ago

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok; FTC accused Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme,' plus, Kalshi banned George Santos for life

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

Also, Amazon is facing a ne…

1 day, 14 hours ago

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem; plus, Caterpillar is bringing what it learned from automating mining to AI implementation

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — b…

2 days, 14 hours ago

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

-Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new sol…

5 days, 12 hours ago

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs, Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha, and US seizes domains of Chinese botnet

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

Also, Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the …

6 days, 14 hours ago

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale; plus, Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

First announced last October, Jalapeño was developed by OpenAI in close collaboration with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own models assisting in the develo…

1 week ago

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns; plus, Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf…

1 week, 1 day ago

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? Plus, is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

Also, most published authors have,…

1 week, 2 days ago

A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds

ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.

Also, Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Route…

1 week, 5 days ago

US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI

Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.

Also, Alation, a data search and AI g…

1 week, 6 days ago