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LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Unlike many other big tech platforms, LinkedIn has decided it won’t spend aggressively on expanding its AI data centers this fiscal year. Executives at the professional social network tell WIRED that it plans to keep its investment in GPUs steady, and its compute and storage footprint is also remaining flat. The spending calculations apply to…
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile…
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AI could end up too cheap to control
The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing. Capital markets have signaled their faith in Anthropic and OpenAI’s impending hyper-profitability, valuing each at nearly $1 trillion. Many of Silicon Valley’s progressive adversaries also…
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A majority of MAGA supporters would still vote for a Republican candidate despite a scandal
Americans are largely tolerant of scandals among politicians. But nobody is more willing to stick by an embattled candidate than a MAGA voter. The POLITICO Poll finds President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are the most loyal of any group of voters — with majorities saying they would stick by GOP candidates confronted with an array…
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Six Flags unveils 382-foot roller coaster set to shatter 6 world records
Six Flags Great Adventure is aiming to rewrite the roller coaster record books with a towering new attraction designed to send riders rocketing skyward, spinning and launching upside down in a ride unlike anything built before. The New Jersey theme park unveiled plans Tuesday for Bakunawa, a new roller coaster inspired by a legendary sea serpent from Philippine…
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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions of dollars a year worldwide. But can AI fully replace a human scammer, autonomously building the web of deception leading…
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Frothing MAGA will implode once it sees the true source of its hate
[Writer’s Note: This is an open letter to MAGA, which in and of itself might be a fool’s errand since they don’t usually read anything longer than social media posts. But maybe someone who loves someone who’s MAGA will see this, and maybe we can start figuring out a better way to reach them, since…
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Texas news anchor Daniella Guzman suspended for accepting free tickets to World Cup, Bruno Mars concert
An Emmy Award-winning Texas news anchor was suspended for allegedly accepting free tickets to a Bruno Mars concert and the FIFA World Cup in a controversy that has embroiled local politicians and officials in a potential stakeholders scandal. Daniella Guzman, the evening news anchor for KPRC 2 News, Houston’s NBC affiliate, was taken off the…
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I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
When the private chef sent by Shift arrived at my apartment to cook a three-course meal, he was already ready to record. He walked through my front door wearing a baseball hat with a blocky, white camera attached to the brim. I signed up for a free lunch in exchange for the whole experience being…
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Pro-Israel Democrats face major test in key Midwest races
The Democratic Party’s fight over Israel is returning to where it began. Jewish Democrats are warning the results could push them out of the party entirely. In Michigan, where grassroots anger over the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza gave rise to the “uncommitted” movement in 2024, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s…