In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with GitHub’s worst reliability month on record and the AI infrastructure pressure behind it. He also covers Warp going open source, Apple’s Mac supply crunch, OpenAI’s goblin tic, the first 1X humanoid factory in…
TikTok reportedly plans to shut down its app for U.S. users on Sunday, so long as Biden administration law forcing the company to sell itself is not stopped by the Supreme Court or Congress, Gizmodo reported. Technically speaking, TikTok could…
President Biden issued an executive order today aimed at speeding the development of AI data centers in the U.S, The Verge reported. It directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) to lease federal sites to private…
The Biden administration’s “AI diffusion rule” restricts the export of GPUs crucial for AI, primarily to curb China’s AI advancements. The rule establishes three licensing tiers, with China and other adversarial nations effectively barred from accessing top-tier GPUs. Critics, including…
The US is imposing expansive export controls on chips used for artificial intelligence in an effort to make it harder for China and other adversaries to get access to advanced technology with military applications, Financial Times reported. Joe Biden’s administration…
Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow for more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, CNBC News reported. More than any of its Silicon…
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project, TechCrunch reported. While community criticism…
Elon Musk claims AI companies have exhausted available human knowledge for training models, pushing reliance on synthetic data. While firms like Meta, Google, and OpenAI already use AI-generated data for fine-tuning, challenges such as hallucinations and diminishing returns arise. Experts…