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AI Summary

  • SpaceX achieved its massive IPO, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire and significantly impacting market activity, including Robinhood.
  • Anthropic has faced government scrutiny and has consequently suspended access to some of its AI models due to safety concerns.
  • Meta's newly formed AI unit is reportedly facing internal dissent and negative sentiment from its engineers.
  • Google has taken legal action against a Chinese cybercrime operation that allegedly used AI, including Gemini, to defraud numerous individuals.
  • Developments in AI include efforts to create general engineers for the physical world (Jeff Bezos's Prometheus) and specialized AI for specific markets like India (Avataar, Equal AI).

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  • Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day 7 hours ago by Sean Hollister
    Gaming, News, PC Gaming

    On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes , it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame , Valve's new gaming headset. Import records show that Valve's distribution partner Ceva offloaded nearly 32 metric tons of "Virtual Reality Devices" on Valve's behalf - or roughly 13 tons of actual product, after you subtract the roughly 3,700 kilogram weight of five 40-foot shipping containers. That's the same math we used to estimate that Valve imported 50 tons of game

  • Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up 13 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Gadgets, News, Phones, Tech

    Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC . As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shortage has already impacted Nothing's less expensive mid-range phone : "For Phone 4A , memory costs doubled between when we decided to build the device and when it launched. They've doubled again since." He warned that "Phone prices are going up, and they'll keep going up into

  • The world’s first trillionaire is a killer 14 hours ago by TC. Sottek
    Elon Musk, Tech

    Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet . And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse - gleefully. This is not a serious person , but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. In the first months of President Donald Trump's second term, the Musk-led Department of Government

  • Siri is good now?? 16 hours ago by David Pierce
    AI, Apple, Apple Event, Podcasts, Tech, Vergecast

    You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a new version of Siri , and it actually seems to be pretty good . On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay talk about their early experiences with Siri AI, and what it means for users, and the rest of the AI industry, for the iPhone's

  • A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money 16 hours ago by Jess Weatherbed
    Elon Musk, News, Science, Space, SpaceX, Tech

    Elon Musk is now officially the world's first trillionaire . That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale - a thousand times more than a billion - is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren't among the 3,363 billionaires that currently exist in our world. But let's try to comprehend it anyway. The most frequently cited comparison is time. If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion


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