Tesla’s chief executive bought the stock after the company’s board proposed paying him nearly $1 trillion if he achieves certain performance goals.
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New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push Industry Agenda
The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry’s latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.
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Roblox Sued for Wrongful Death After Teenager’s Suicide
At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who blames Roblox.
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‘Civil War’ Mentions Surge Online After Charlie Kirk Shooting
The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.
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A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
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Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
“There’s only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”
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Tesla Board Chair Defend’s Elon Musk’s Humongous Pay Proposal
Robyn Denholm, normally media shy, is campaigning to get shareholders to back the chief executive’s trillion-dollar compensation package.
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Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT, he decided to shake things up. By programming the AI to roleplay as villagers growing aware of their debt situation, and giving them a shared memory to track conversations, Fonseca...
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F.T.C. Starts Inquiry Into A.I. Chatbots and Child Safety
The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.
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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms
On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and seek new partnerships for growing infrastructure needs. “Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of...