That’s a huge win for Google and a blow for OpenAI. (CNBC)
2 Trump wants Elon Musk to help break the Iranian internet blackout
He appeals to Musk to let the Iranians bypass it with Starlink. (W.P $)
+ Smuggled technology is Iran’s last connection to the outside world. (The Guardian)
Three right-wing influencers have flocked to Minneapolis
Their goal is to portray it as a lawless city and justify the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE. (Wired $)
4 The Pentagon adopts Musk’s Grok AI chatbot
Just as it faces a worldwide backlash for creating deepfakes without mutual consent. (NPR)
+ Britain launches formal investigation into X. (The Guardian)
+ There will also be a new law that makes it illegal to create these types of images. (BBC)
5 The drive for power over AI is destroying coastal villages in Taiwan
A rapid expansion of wind energy will harm farmers and fishermen. (Rest of the world)
+ Stop worrying about your AI footprint. Instead, look at the big picture. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Don’t hold your breath for robots’ ChatGPT moment
AI has enabled impressive advances in robotics, but we are still far from human-level capabilities. (FT $)
+ Will we ever trust humanoid robots in our homes? (MIT Technology Review)
7 Meta is about to lay off hundreds of Metaverse employees
Reality Labs is yesterday’s news: now it’s all about AI. (NOW $)
8 We could eradicate the flu
A ‘universal’ flu vaccine could protect us much better than any existing option. (Vox $)
9 You can now reserve a hotel room on the moon
It’s all yours, for just $250,000. (Ars Technica)
+ This astronaut trains tourists to fly the world’s first commercial space station. (MIT Technology Review)
10 AI images complicate efforts to find some monkeys in Missouri
Really and truly. 🙈 (AP)
Quote of the day
“In big cities, everyone is an isolated, atomized individual. People live in soundproof apartments, without knowing the last names of their neighbors.”
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