Nvidia’s $12.9 billion bet on open-source AI

PLUS: OpenAI cut off a billion-dollar customer to avoid Musk.
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BUSINESS

 

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

 

By Maxwell Zeff

 

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.

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SECURITY

 

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages

 

By Lily Hay Newman

 

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

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BUSINESS

 

Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI

 

By Lauren Goode

 

The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

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POLITICS

 

Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigations

 

By Hugo Lowell

 

Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

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SECURITY

ICE Wants to Know Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

By Maddy Varner

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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UNCANNY VALLEY

Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

 

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rogue” AI agents.

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Tesla’s Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut

By Aarian Marshall

An invite-only event in Austin, Texas, kept online fans in the dark for hours.

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HEALTH

Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choices

By Emily Mullin

With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.

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WIRED REVIEW

Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Fanless Laptop Takes Thin and Light to the Extreme

By Les Shu

Using Frore’s air-cooling technology, Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Concept is an ultralightweight laptop with efficient heat management.

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