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Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
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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.
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.
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.
Nanotube Material Has Perfect Memory
A carbon nanotube foam springs back to its initial state, regardless of the speed of the compression, a property that could lead to a new type of shock absorber.
Spongy materials can spring back following compression, but they don’t return exactly to their original shape. New experiments show that a foam made with carbon nanotubes snaps back to its initial shape, implying a perfect mechanical “memory” [1]. The material is also uniquely insensitive to deformation rate, behaving the same under fast and slow compressions. The researchers found that this combination of memory and rate-independence leads to an unusual property: The material’s response to mechanical shocks can be adjusted by appropriately compressing it before the shock. They imagine using this foam in “smart” helmets that reduce injury risk by controlling the propagation of impact energy.
Polymer foams—like the ones in some mattresses—can spring back, but viscosity effects cause irreversible changes to the internal structure, preventing the material from returning to its initial state. With repeated cycles of compression and release, the material drifts further from its original condition. “People refer to this as fading memory,” says Ramathasan Thevamaran from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He and his colleagues have found a material that isn’t so forgetful.