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Microsoft Wants You to Have a Personal AI Companion, If Only So You Don’t Notice How Much Power AI Consumes

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Microsoft‘s vision for AI just got a lot more personal and perhaps conveniently so, given the company’s growing concerns about public perception of the technology’s environmental costs. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, recently declared that within five years, everyone will have their own AI companion that knows them intimately. But his promise of ever-present … Read more

xAI Parts Ways With Developer After Discussing Human Simulations Powered by Parked Tesla Vehicles

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Sulaiman Khan Ghori, a software engineer at xAI, announced his departure from the company on January 19, 2026, via social media. The announcement came shortly after details emerged about the artificial intelligence startup’s ambitious and controversial plans to deploy human emulation technology using computing power leased from Tesla vehicles. During his tenure at xAI, Ghori … Read more

Open AI CEO Claimed He was Doing It Because He loves it – turns out he also had an indirect stake AND secretly owned OpenAI Startup Fund

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When Sam Altman testified before Congress about artificial intelligence regulation, he presented himself as a different kind of tech CEO. Asked about his compensation, the OpenAI chief executive offered a striking response. “I make, no. I’m paid enough for health insurance, I have no equity in OpenAI,” Altman told Senator John Kennedy. When the senator … Read more

UK & Australia are Debating Banning Grok Following Adult Image Generation Incidents

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Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has sparked international outcry after being used to generate non-consensual images, prompting governments in the United Kingdom and Australia to consider unprecedented restrictions on the platform X. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced Friday that Britain would support media regulator Ofcom if it chose to block access to X in … Read more

CEO of one of the biggest AI companies presents himself as an AI optimist in public but claims it’s going to be catastrophic in private

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On Steven Bartlett’s podcast, the host shared something that should make everyone pause. A friend of his knows one of the world’s most powerful AI CEOs personally—and what this CEO says behind closed doors is drastically different from his public messaging. “What he tells me in private is not what he’s saying publicly,” Bartlett’s friend … Read more

Cultural elites are obsessed with Ancient Rome – but we’re still getting plenty wrong about how Romans actually lived

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Ancient Rome has never left us. From Elon Musk‘s recent claims about the empire’s collapse to blockbuster films like Gladiator, our cultural fascination with Rome burns as brightly as ever. Yet this obsession often comes wrapped in Hollywood fiction and modern political agendas that obscure the messy, complex reality of Roman life. When Musk argued … Read more

Influencer argues: Joe Rogan was the left’s Joe Rogan, but they were too stupid to realize it

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A recent conversation between content creators Travis Chappell and Julian Dorey has sparked discussion about how the Democratic Party lost one of its most valuable media assets—Joe Rogan—through its own missteps and rigid orthodoxy. The 2024 presidential election marked what many are calling “the podcast election,” where long-form conversations proved more influential than traditional media … Read more

Ari Emanuel Bets Big on Live Events Amid AI Boom, Launches $2B Company Hosting 900 Shows

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Artificial intelligence and digital transformation are all the rage now, and Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel is making a contrarian bet: live events are the future of entertainment. Speaking on the All-In podcast, the Endeavor founder announced the launch of a massive $2 billion live events company set to debut in October, featuring approximately 900 … Read more

Google Whistleblower Claims AI Goes Rogue 90% of the Time

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A chilling revelation has emerged from the artificial intelligence research community: AI systems are demonstrating “rogue” behavior at an alarming rate of 90%, according to recent studies cited by tech whistleblower Tristan Harris, the former Google employee who became famous for exposing social media’s dangers in “The Social Dilemma.” In a recent interview, Harris detailed … Read more