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CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.
Read full articleMichael Saylor posted “Back to work. BTC” on X Sunday, May 10, 2026, alongside an image of Strategy’s bitcoin holdings tracker, signaling the firm is resuming its aggressive accumulation after a one-week pause. Strategy Flips Switch to Accumulation Mode The social media post came alongside a chart showing Strategy, formerly known as Microstrategy, holding 818,334 […]
The opening days in May have been accompanied by a rise in Ethereum on-chain activity. In a recent post on X, a pseudonymous analyst Darkfost dives into the intricacies of this activity and its impact on price. Related Reading: Ethereum Is Going Up While Shorts Are Piling In: Find Out What Usually Follows Binance Records Massive Ethereum Inflow According to Darkfost, the resurgence of activity on the Ethereum network corresponds with the sideways movement of the second-largest cryptocurrency, trading between $2,250 and $2,450. Further details of this recent activity surge show that Binance has seen multiple large hourly ETH inflow spikes since the beginning of May. The three largest of these Ethereum transfers to Binance were reported as follows: on May 6, about 216,152 ETH, worth approximately $511 million, was transferred to Binance. Although smaller in comparison, on May 8, 98,552 ETH valued at $224 million also entered Binance. A larger number of transfers was also observed on May
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a Silicon Valley debate: it’s becoming part of Africa’s creative revolution. In Nigeria, filmmakers and digital artists are experimenting with AI tools to create films, archive disappearing oral histories and imagine new African futures. Obinna Okere-keocha, founder of Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, and filmmaker Malik Afegbua, use AI to preserve fading oral traditions by creating digital archives.
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions Since the surreal scene at the 2024 presidential inauguration, when a row of big tech titans took their VIP seats and signaled their new alliance with Maga, the Trump administration has rolled out the red carpet for Silicon Valley’s AI ambitions and shareholder priorities. Washington has doled out billions in lucrative federal subsidies and contracts to the cash-rich sector, bloating an AI bubble that experts warn may imperil the entire economy while prohibiting any guardrails on the fast-moving technology. Continue reading...
Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people.
AI is capable of mimicking a real person. It’s clear this capability exists, and the ethics of using AI for this purpose are often very clear. But increasingly, new applications are leading to ethically murky results. The good For example, the CEO of a company, or a politician, could choose to create a clone using AI tools, creating a chatbot plus an avatar — a digital twin — that can interact with people on their behalf. Silicon Valley is big on the idea: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman are working on, or have already created, digital twins of themselves. Cloned politicians include Pakistan’s Imran Khan, who used an authorized voice clone to campaign from prison, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who used voice-cloned robocalls to speak with constituents in languages like Mandarin and Yiddish. This kind of use case is probably ethical — as long as the people interacting know that they’re dealing with a digital clone and not a real person. The bad The f
Silicon Valley giants have transformed from asset-light cash machines to huge infrastructure investors
French prosecutors said Wednesday that they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk and social media platform X over the distribution of child sexual abuse images, deepfakes, disinformation and alleged complicity in denying crimes against humanity linked to the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok.
