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Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

Anti Trust these Anti AI dopes.


A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development.

The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.

The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei’s proposals in agreement.

Drowned at the end of the Ice Age: The flooded abyss longer than the Grand Canyon and teeming with hundreds of creatures, from mammals to reptiles

Sistema Ox Bel Ha near Tulum, Mexico, is currently the world’s longest explored underwater cave system. It is network of tight passages.

The Changing College Degree: Why Students Need Fluency in AI, Emerging Technologies, and Cybersecurity

By Chuck Brooks Higher education is being reshaped by rapid technological convergence—AI, quantum computing, robotics, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and advanced communications—which is dissolving traditional boundaries between academic disciplines and professions. As the document notes, “the traditional boundaries between technology and virtually every other profession are disappearing.” Students no longer need to become engineers, but they must understand how technology works, how to use AI effectively, how to protect digital environments, and how to communicate complex ideas. My article argues that future career readiness depends on a blend of AI fluency, cybersecurity awareness, technological literacy, critical thinking, ethics, and human communication skills.

600 Years Before Code Existed, the Inca Built the World’s First Computer Using Nothing but ‘Knots’

Knots, cords, and color, that’s all it took. A new study suggests the Inca built something eerily close to a computer, centuries before the first one existed. Here’s what researchers found when they actually tried to run it.

Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times

I once sat down with a man who can tell the entire Odyssey from imagination alone. No text. No notes. Just the story, living in him.

Dr. Martin Shaw spent four years living in a tent as a rite of passage. He has written 18 books. He is one of the very few people alive who makes a living from #storytelling in the oldest sense of the word: a bard, working audiences the way bards have for three thousand years.

His definition of #myth has stayed with me ever since we recorded this: a beautiful lie that tells a deeper truth, a truth that works without the use of facts.

Which is a strange thing to sit with now, a couple of years into machines that can generate infinite stories and mean none of them.

Because Martin’s real warning was never about #AI. It was about worship. About tools quietly becoming deities. About what he saw arriving after Humanism, and why he thinks the world needs healing that no tool can deliver.

He told me every culture, before it could write, collected what truly mattered and coded it into stories so it would survive.

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