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Democratic attorneys general from 19 states have filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to sensitive, personal data belonging to Americans at the Treasury Department. The lawsuit claims the Elon Musk-run agency illegally accessed the Treasury Department’s central payment system at the Trump administration’s behest. On Thursday, the Treasury agreed to limit the Musk team’s access to its payment systems while a judge hears arguments in a previous lawsuit filed by a group of employee unions and retirees. The lawsuit, filed Monday, claimed Musk’s team violated the law by being given “full access” to…
OpenAI alleged Wednesday that DeepSeek — its newly ascendant Chinese competitor in the AI space — might have used a process called distillation to incorporate OpenAI’s abilities to train its model. Basically, OpenAI openly wondered if DeepSeek stole data from them. It’s unclear if that’s actually the case, but it’s certainly made headlines. And folks online loved it because OpenAI built its whole business by scraping the entirety of the internet to train its model. Lawsuits have alleged ChatGPT rips copyrighted information verbatim. Mashable Top Stories SEE ALSO: What DeepSeek knows about you — and why it matters Naturally, this…
Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image” section of the image and can also be detected by specialised tools. The move is likely aimed at reducing the instances of potential deepfakes that can be generated using Google’s AI image editing tool.Google Photos to Add AI WatermarkIn a blog post, the tech giant…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Some of Tesla Sweden’s customers who boycotted the company due to its conflict with IF Metall are coming back. This was despite IF Metall and its allies’ ongoing strike against Tesla Sweden. Tesla Sweden vs. IF Metall: IF Metall initiated a strike against Tesla Sweden due to the electric vehicle maker not using a unionized workforce in October 2023.Other unions allied with IF Metall have initiated sympathy strikes against Tesla Sweden as well. This has resulted in Tesla Sweden experiencing challenges getting license plates for its vehicles, or even getting its cars shipped into the country.The strikes have also throttled Tesla’s…
It appears that Tesla’s 4680 program has paved the way for the Cybertruck to hit a production rate of about 120,000 units per year. The update: The milestone was hinted at in Tesla’s Q4 2024 Update Letter. As per Tesla, the company’s in-house 4680 cell manufacturing facilities have reached a run rate that could support more than 2,500 Cybertrucks per week.“Our in-house 4680 cell hit a production rate exceeding 2.5k Cybertrucks/week,” Tesla wrote.With this in mind, Tesla now seems to have the capability to produce about 120,000 to 130,000 Cybertrucks per year, and that’s with the 4680 facilities’ end of Q4…
WASHINGTON — Boeing has notified employees working on the Space Launch System program that up to 400 of them could lose their jobs as the new administration considers canceling the program.Boeing SLS employees were informed Feb. 7 that the company was making preparations to cut up to 400 jobs from the program because of “revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations.” The specific positions being considered for elimination were not announced but would account for a significant fraction of the overall SLS workforce at the company.“To align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations, today we informed…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Canada’s University Health Network said its Toronto Western Hospital would be the first non-US site of a trial for a device created by Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s brain-implant company. “We are incredibly proud to be at the forefront of this research advancement in neurosurgery,” UHN Chief Executive Officer Kevin Smith said in an announcement. He also said UHN would be the “first and exclusive” site for the trial in Canada, but did not say when it would begin.On Wednesday, Neuralink said that it had received approval from regulators in Canada to launch clinical trials for its device in that country.“Health Canada…
Elon Musk recently highlighted one of the most notable innovations that have been developed by The Boring Company, his tunneling startup. As per Musk, the Boring Co.’s technologies allow tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to start digging with no prior site preparation. Earlier this month, The Boring Company posted an image of its Prufrock-3 TBM undergoing final checks on “The Monster,” which was already tilted downwards. The Monster is a machine that is capable of launching and retrieving Prufrock, allowing The Boring Company to start excavating tunnels very quickly. As noted by Elon Musk in his recent post, the capability to…