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Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

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Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, seem to think the AI executives are being overreactive and fear that a pause could lead to China outpacing the US in the AI race. According to the Financial Times , Trump said "Look, we're leading China in AI … and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins." Jo … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994441/trump-mike-johnson-ai-industry-overreacting
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Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7's code to two game controllers identified as first-party devices. Despite the code being found in macOS, not iOS, Gurman says the controllers are designed for iPhones. Additionally, he says that it is Beats executives leading the charge on this product. Apple sometimes uses its subsidiary brand to experiment with new product categories and compete at … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/994426/apple-iphone-game-controllers
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The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

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The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space . During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there's no better way to get my attention than to combine two of my favorite things - punk rock and synthesizers . The site was down that day (it appears to be back up now), but I was able to access a version from July through the Wayback Machine. What greeted me was a bare-bones site with links for six bands, including The Screamers. But at the top was The Units, a band I'd never heard of and, after tracking down their 1980 record D … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/994415/the-units-digital-stimulation-synthpunk-review
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Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune . Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was "absolutely" possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that "there are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity." "We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, th … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994384/sam-altman-no-openai-ipo-ill-advised
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StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

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Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost . It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard is giving it another go with the simply titled StarCraft . Dan Hay, a VP at Blizzard, took the stage at BlizzCon today to reveal that after more than a decade of lying dormant, StarCraft would be returning in 2030. But, rather than another top-down real-time strategy installment, the new title would be an open-world shooter. He then showed off a cinematic trailer for the title that fo … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/games/994371/starcraft-returns-in-2030-as-an-open-world-shooter
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Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay , Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow the pace of training and development to give companies time to build safeguards and regulators to evaluate models. Amodei says that giving external evaluators wide-ranging access is just the first step, and one it is taking now unilaterally . Step two would involve the industry coming together as a whole, likely with gove … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994337/anthropic-ceo-slow-down-ai-development
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The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most powerful and popular’ social media platform

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The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. Data gathered by Search Engine Land shows YouTube is the most popular platform in the world, with 2.65 billion monthly active users. Facebook comes in second with 2.39 billion active users around the globe, followed by TikTok with 2.21 billion and Instagram with 1.99 billion. Truth Social doesn't make Search Engine Land 's top 10 list, wh … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/policy/994072/white-house-truth-social-popular-powerful
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