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Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman heads to trial starting April 27th, centered on allegations that the company betrayed its founding nonprofit mission in favor of profit. Musk, a former co-founder, claims he was misled into funding the organization under the pretense that it would develop AI for humanity's benefit. The outcome could set a significant legal precedent for how AI companies are held accountable to their stated missions.
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Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
Overview Energy has signed its first commercial contract with Meta to deliver solar power beamed from space, marking an early but significant milestone for the emerging space-based solar industry. Unlike traditional solar, the system promises continuous power generation by capturing sunlight in orbit and transmitting it to Earth, bypassing the limitations of night and weather. The deal is modest in scale, but signals that major tech companies are beginning to place real bets on off-world energy infrastructure.
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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
David Silver, the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has secured $1.1 billion for his new venture Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation — just months after founding the company. The lab is pursuing AI that learns autonomously without relying on human-generated training data, a approach that could sidestep one of the field's most significant bottlenecks. The raise signals serious investor appetite for bets on next-generation learning paradigms beyond today's data-hungry models.
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Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years
Fast16 was a sophisticated cyberweapon deployed against Iranian nuclear infrastructure five years before Stuxnet brought state-sponsored cyber sabotage into public consciousness. Its existence suggests the covert digital war against Iran's enrichment program was far more extensive and longer-running than previously acknowledged. The discovery rewrites the timeline of offensive cyber operations as a geopolitical tool.
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