AI & RoboticsNews

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

Quick question: Do you want AI to be so well trained, it could help husbands (or wives, for that matter) plan the perfect murder of their spouses? Just as a gut reaction, that feels like a no for me. I wouldn’t even think it was a particularly hard question. But America contains many diverse perspectives, and one such perspective was shared by Comma AI founder and longtime jailbreaker…
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4 hours of searching led to this spectacular Milky Way cave photo – "I'm always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered"

This photograph, Galaxy on the Rise, was captured in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, where the photographer spent nearly four hours searching for a hidden cave that proved remarkably difficult to find. “I’m always drawn to locations that feel unique and relatively undiscovered, and this cave was a perfect example,” says astrophotographer Anastasia Gulova, reflecting on the image…
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When Oliver Klink photographed rural Europe's disappearing communities, many of them looked straight down the lens. Some might see that as a problem for documentary work, but I'd argue it's actually a sign of success

Look through Oliver Klink’s Where the Earth Remembers, on view throughout July on All About Photo’s Solo Exhibition platform, and you’ll soon see a pattern emerge. The two children steadying a donkey loaded with firewood are looking straight at the camera.
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday. The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands even though Musk himself concedes Grok is not as good as its rivals. What the memo says Musk told staff they should switch to Grok “when…
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DefenseNews

Helsing raises $1.8 billion in Europe’s biggest defense-startup round

PARIS – Germany’s Helsing raised US$1.8 billion in Europe’s biggest-ever funding round for a defense-technology startup, valuing the company at $18 billion and continuing a flurry of mega rounds for the continent’s defense industry. Munich-based Helsing raised the funding in a Series E funding round, with investor demand “significantly” exceeding the available allocation, the company…
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