Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims to use AI to improve crop yield, as the incubator aggressively spins off companies under CEO Astro Teller — Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning …
Six engineers, all apparently between 19 and 24 years and linked to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are helping Musk gain control of federal infrastructure with DOGE (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Six engineers, all apparently between 19 and 24 years and linked to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are helping Musk gain control of federal infrastructure with DOGE — Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
Some parents say they are eschewing 529 college savings plans and other traditional investments to invest in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Some parents say they are eschewing 529 college savings plans and other traditional investments to invest in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children — Despite the risks and volatility, some families are investing in cryptocurrency to build wealth for their children.
Intel received €515.55M in default interest from the EU after it was reimbursed a €1.06B fine levied in 2009; EU’s top court sided with Intel in October 2024 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Intel received €515.55M in default interest from the EU after it was reimbursed a €1.06B fine levied in 2009; EU’s top court sided with Intel in October 2024 — U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) has received 515.55 million euros ($536 million) in default interest from EU antitrust regulators related …
Reliance Retail launches the Shein app in India, with control over operations and data and Shein acting as a technology partner, years after the app’s ban (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Reliance Retail launches the Shein app in India, with control over operations and data and Shein acting as a technology partner, years after the app’s ban — Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with local conglomerate Reliance’s retail chain …
A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60,000 people from 190 nations (Heidi Mitchell/Wall Street Journal)
Heidi Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60,000 people from 190 nations — A new artificial-intelligence tool allowed me to talk to my 80-year-old self. It’s going to be quite a life.
A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
Katie McQue / The Guardian:
A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info — James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim’s information to guide chatbots in impersonation
In its current form, OpenAI’s Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
In its current form, OpenAI’s Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents — In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: — Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.
Donald Trump’s EO imposing levies on China says the “de minimis” exemption for items under $800 no longer applies, which could affect Alibaba, Shein, and others (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Donald Trump’s EO imposing levies on China says the “de minimis” exemption for items under $800 no longer applies, which could affect Alibaba, Shein, and others — – President could block tariff exemption for packages under $800 — Change could affect retailers such as Alibaba, Shein, Temu
The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so (Sima Kotecha/BBC)
Sima Kotecha / BBC:
The UK announces four new laws that make it illegal to possess, create, or distribute AI tools designed to produce CSAM, becoming the first country to do so — Four new laws will tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the government has announced.
