OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and an AI researcher who previously worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the LLM front will be a particularly formative time, and I’m very excited to join the […]
Minimalist Light Phone partners with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile to reward you for stopping doomscrolling
If you’re looking for a sign to try a “dumb phone”, here it is. The trendy, minimalist Litephone has partnered with Noble Mobile, the phone network founded by entrepreneur and politician Andrew Yang, to refund your money if you use less data. On Tuesday, 500 Light Phone III models will be in stock and available […]
US cyber agency CISA releases tons of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
US cybersecurity agency CISA may have been spared a major security breach thanks to an honest security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed access to government clouds and internal agency systems. As first reported by independent security reporter Brian Krebs, GitGuardian security researcher Guillaume Valadon found a large amount of plaintext credentials listed […]
Forget about feeds: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Like many young people her age, Fainur was what she calls a “chronically online teenager.” She was obsessed with music groups, TV shows, and movies, and never missed an opportunity to talk endlessly about her interests online. When ChatGPT launched in 2022, she immediately saw the potential. “AI will finally allow any user to actually […]
‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Camila Kartiguez launch goal-tracking app ‘Paprclip’
On Survivor 48, his alliance with Kyle Fraser and castmate Camila Kartiguez led him to victory. Now, the two are teaming up in a new field and are hoping for similar results. That means we’re building a business together. On Tuesday, the new co-founders announced Paprclip, a goal-focused “social responsibility” app they hope will become […]
Solar power will dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business
Solar power will overtake coal, oil and natural gas to become the largest source of electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. A seismic shift will occur with a historic increase in energy use and the electrification of entire industries through AI. “Solar power is winning the race,” Matthias Kimmel, […]
Theo Baker spent four years researching Stanford. Before he left, this is what he found.
Most of Stanford’s 2026 graduates are smart, ambitious, and poised for great careers. Theo Baker already has it. During his first semester at the university, Baker published an article that led to the resignation of Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. For his work, Baker received one of journalism’s highest honors, the George Polk Award. Warner […]
OSHA investigates worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site
A worker died Friday at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in south Texas, prompting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate. The San Antonio Express-News reported Monday that the unidentified victim died around 4:17 a.m. local time on May 15, citing OSHA and local officials. The Wall Street Journal later reported that the county […]
SandboxAQ brings drug discovery models to Claude – no computing PhD required
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive endeavors in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions of dollars, and most candidates have yet to be successful. A generation of AI startups promises to solve this problem, and most of them are making the problem less painful for […]
Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Elon Musk’s claims that he was treated unfairly by OpenAI’s co-founders failed after a nine-judge California jury unanimously ruled that the lawsuit was filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of Frontier AI Labs. However, the jury found that any damages that […]