05 Jun Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.
05 Jun The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.
05 Jun Phoebe Bridgers Ditched the Internet to Hype Up Her New Music. It’s Working The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small-venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album.
04 Jun OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
04 Jun xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity Four people suing Elon Musk’s AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
04 Jun Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.
03 Jun Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
03 Jun He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
03 Jun Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
02 Jun Anthropic Confidentially Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.
