Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25
Samsung is going to launch S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC).
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…
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With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.
OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim
The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.
Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies
A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies.
An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics
Czech ice dancers Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek are learning the hard way that LLMs sometimes spit out straight-up plagiarism.
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years at the company
Robert Playter announcd he is leaving Boston Dynamics after 30 years at the company in various roles, including six years as CEO.
This Founder Is Taking a Bite Out of the $50 Billion GLP-1 Market By Going Natural
As pharmaceutical companies race to scale synthetic GLP-1s, Evolv is betting that consumers want a natural, orally available version.
VC Masha Bucher, Epstein associate and Day One founder, explains herself
After numerous news reports documented Masha Bucher’s close business and personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bucher took to X to explain.
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.
Nearly half of xAI’s founding team has now left the company
Out of the twelve-person founding team, only seven are still at the company (counting Elon).