The Trump administration has started acquiring direct equity holdings in U.S. businesses, not just as short-term emergency responses, as in 2008, but as enduring elements of industrial strategy. These actions prompt intriguing questions, such as what occurs when the White House becomes a listed shareholder. At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco the prior week, Roelof…

OpenAI reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work that they did in past and current jobs, according to a report in Wired. This appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies that are hiring…

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. This is one of the most aggressive moves so far from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery — often depicting real women and minors, and sometimes showing assault and abuse — posted by Grok in response to…