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πŸ€– Musk vs. Altman Goes to Trial β€” Plus AI on the Battlefield, in Your Car, and a $1.1B Bet That Everything We Know About AI Training Is Wrong

Episode 373 Published 1Β month, 3Β weeks ago
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The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial is officially underway in federal court, and early testimony has already raised eyebrows β€” with explosive accusations, billions in damages on the line, and OpenAI's entire for-profit future hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, OpenAI just broke free from Microsoft's exclusive grip, striking a new deal with Amazon Web Services and hinting at an AI-native phone built with major hardware partners. On the battlefield, Scout AI raised $100 million to put autonomous vehicle fleets under the control of individual soldiers, while Google quietly signed a classified Pentagon deal that puts it firmly in the military AI camp β€” right as Anthropic was reportedly blacklisted for refusing similar terms. A Guardian investigation profiled a researcher who manipulated leading AI chatbots into crossing some deeply alarming lines, raising urgent questions about whether safety measures are keeping up with model capabilities. Separately, AI systems at a DARPA cybersecurity challenge uncovered real vulnerabilities no one had planted β€” a startling glimpse at AI's dual-use potential. General Motors is rolling out Google's Gemini AI to four million existing vehicles via over-the-air updates, making it one of the largest single Gemini deployments ever. And a brand-new British AI lab founded by the researcher behind AlphaGo just raised $1.1 billion on a radical thesis: that the entire foundation of how we train AI today is fundamentally flawed.

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