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Palmer Luckey's eyes light up, and he talks a mile a minute, when discussing his company's new recruiting event: the AI Grand Prix. This is a drone flying contest with a twist. Rather than humans operating drones, the drones must operate autonomously. The humans will be tested on their software-writing skills that cause the drones to outfly their competition. There are prizes ranging from a $500,000 pot to be spilt amongst the highest-scoring teams,

His administration played a role in brokering ceasefires between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan, though these were incremental agreements, and some leaders dispute the extent of his involvement. He did secure the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal, but it involves multiple stages and remains incomplete with hundreds in Gaza reported killed since the first phase took effect in October.

Here's a truth from physics that should concern every executive racing toward AI dominance: speed tells you how fast you're moving. Velocity tells you how fast you're moving - and in which direction. A car travelling at 100 mph in circles has tremendous speed but zero velocity. It goes nowhere. It only burns fuel, overheats the engine, and eventually becomes a hazard to everything nearby.

At an inauguration-related event for President Donald Trump, Elon Musk throws a straight-armed gesture largely interpreted as a Nazi salute. In follow-up comments, Musk failed to put the controversy to rest by deriding critics and neglecting to issue an apology, leaving his intent ambiguous. Silicon Valley ❤️ MAGA Facebook decides to dispense with third-party fact checkers. Instead, it will rely completely on "Community Notes" to identify and contextualize misinformation.

2025 was the year of tariffs and a global shift in economic power. Two words that largely define the economy right now: Global reordering. President Donald Trump's Tariffs have landed as a shock to global trade. This is 2025. Major economies are rewriting their playbooks, and alliances are being redrawn. From Africa's minerals boom to the global AI race, countries

It includes competition from traditional rivals, emerging AI players, large language model developers, and a prevailing market narrative that will be difficult to overcome, adds the analyst. The analyst says that their second-half fiscal 2025 CIO survey signals headwinds for Adobe, with front-office segments, including digital marketing, losing priority over the next 12 months. Notably, sales and marketing budgets show a 16-point net decrease, and 13% of respondents expect reduced focus on front-office applications.

One of the twists in the AI wars has been Google sort of bouncing back, this surge by Gemini versus OpenAI's ChatGPT. Sam Altman calling this code red. You've said before that it's hard to know who a winner will be. Interestingly, on Pivot, we thought Google was going to do this because they had all the pieces. If they didn't, what a bunch of idiots, that kind of thing.

Welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley. I'm WIRED's director of business and industry, Zoë Schiffer. Today on the show, we're bringing you five stories that you need to know about this week, including how despite some reports claiming that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is pretty much over, DOGE people are actually still at work across federal agencies. I'm joined today by our senior politics editor, Leah Feiger. Leah, welcome back to Uncanny Valley.

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"I think about it as humanist superintelligence to clearly indicate this isn't about some directionless technological goal," Suleyman wrote. "We are doing this to solve real concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable."

Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic, Business Insider has learned. The new round of funding could value Anthropic at more than $350 billion, according to one source familiar with the matter. The potential new deal, which is still being negotiated and is in flux, could also take the form of a strategic investment where Google provides additionalcloud computing servicesto Anthropic, a convertible note, or a priced funding round early next year, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Despite all of the excitement about better-than-expected iPhone 17 sales, Apple Inc. ( NASDAQ: AAPL) still cannot get the foldable smartphone product right. The project is important because archrival Samsung already has its Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7. These are state-of-the-art smartphones, and Samsung has had a lead for almost a year. Rumors hint that Apple will launch a foldable phone with the iPhone 18 late next year.