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US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that "identified views opposed" to AI and listed addresses of other AI executives (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/technol

Man Who Attacked OpenAI C.E.O.’s Home Had List of Other A.I. Executives
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman’s home had written at length about the threat of A.I.

Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider
#Microsoft #W365 #opensource

In Salt Lake City, we already have the existential crisis of the drying #GreatSaltLake. Why not radiate the remaining water, too?
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/13/pus

"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-

The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

Nice article, about a serious problem/risk with AI models. AI poisoning.
"Part of the problem is that AI models can offer wildly different results depending on exactly what is asked and what kind of information they are drawing on. Search for “bixonimania”, and Google’s AI overview might treat it as a legitimate condition. Ask it “Is bixonimania real?” and the same AI overview might confirm that it isn’t legitimate."

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/fcc-approves-echostar-sa…

Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-android-17-tempts-an-iphone-user/

I'm a devoted iPhone user but Android 17 is tempting me with its new video and social features
Android 17 just made it easier to switch from an iPhone or exist alongside a group of iOS users with new features and capabilities.

Google announces Gemini Intelligence, a brand that bundles existing and new Gemini features, including task automation and Create My Widget (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/928724/gemini-intelligence-android-io-autofill

Gemini’s biggest new features are all about controlling your phone
Google is debuting some new Gemini features, like expanded task automation and the ability to use AI to make your own homescreen widgets.

Nvidia says that Jensen Huang is joining President Trump on his China trip; source: the president asked Huang to join after seeing media coverage of his absence (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/nvidia-says-ceo-jensen-huang-is-joining-trump…

Jensen Huang is joining China trip after Trump called the Nvidia CEO: Source
The U.S. chipmaker executive was not included in earlier lists of business leaders participating in President Donald Trump's trip to China this week.

OpenAI stands to hold ~$2.6B in combined CoreWeave and Cerebras stock that it acquired by committing to buy cloud services and chips, and to lend Cerebras money (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-making-b…

OpenAI Is Making Billions Just by Promising to Buy From Suppliers
Chipmaker Cerebras brought in one of the greatest pitchmen in tech, Sam Altman, to appear in a video to promote its $5.5 billion initial public offering. Seated on a gray upholstered couch and speaking softly, the OpenAI chief executive touted Cerebras’ chips as “the best high-speed inference ...