MIT Tech Review
Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
OpenAI's legal team went on offense in week two of the Musk v. Altman trial, turning the spotlight on Musk's own motivations for bringing the suit. Bombshell testimony from Shivon Zilis revealed that Musk had attempted to recruit Sam Altman to his own AI ventures — complicating his narrative that the lawsuit is purely about OpenAI's alleged betrayal of its nonprofit mission. The revelation raises pointed questions about whether Musk's $38 million donation dispute is a principled stand or a calculated move against a rival he once tried to bring into his camp.
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Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year
Nvidia has quietly become one of the most aggressive equity investors in AI, committing $40 billion to deals in 2024 alone. The chip giant is cementing its dominance not just through hardware sales but by taking stakes in the companies building on its technology. It's a strategy that turns customers into partners — and deepens Nvidia's grip on the entire AI value chain.
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Ars Technica
Manufacturing qubits that can move
Researchers are developing qubits capable of physical movement, a breakthrough that could unlock more flexible quantum computing architectures. The challenge lies in reconciling the rigid demands of electronic manufacturing with the need for dynamic, reconfigurable geometries. Solving this problem could dramatically expand how quantum systems are designed and scaled.
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The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window
Subquadratic has unveiled a model boasting a 12 million token context window, dwarfing the capacity of most frontier models available today. The achievement hinges on architectural innovations that sidestep the traditional quadratic scaling cost of attention mechanisms, making extreme-length contexts computationally tractable. For developers working with massive codebases, legal documents, or long-form research, this could mark a genuine inflection point in what's practically possible with a single prompt.
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AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase
An AWS data center outage disrupted trading and betting operations on both Coinbase and FanDuel, leaving users unable to execute transactions during the downtime. The incident underscores the systemic risk of critical financial and wagering platforms concentrating their infrastructure on a single cloud provider. When AWS sneezes, billions in potential transactions catch a cold.
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