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The layoffs affect about 8,000 employees, with Meta also planning to close 6,000 open roles, as the company focuses on artificial intelligence. Source link

A jury trial that is set to start on Monday could shift the course of the A.I. race, with Mr. Musk seeking billions of dollars in damages from Mr. Altman’s OpenAI. Source link

Hackers are spoofing Paperless Post, Evite and Punchbowl to creep into your hard drive. Source link

Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model. Source link

Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? Source link

As SpaceX prepares to go public, Mr. Musk has proposed moonshots that differ from the company’s original aim of reaching Mars. Source link

Most prisons forbid online access. But inmates are finding ways to ask chatbots questions anyway. Source link

Andon Market in San Francisco is billed as the first retail boutique run by an artificial intelligence agent. So far, the inventory seems random, and there are too many candles. Source link

John Ternus, an Apple veteran who runs hardware engineering, will take over an extraordinarily profitable company in need of new ideas. Source link

Anthropic also committed to spending $100 billion on Amazon technologies that can help build and deploy A.I. systems. Source link