Archive: August 2021

jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock Over the weekend, tech billionaire and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly admitted that he had cheated on his wife with a suspected Chinese spy. The news sent markets rocking wildly, with investors worrying he could be forced to step down — a move that could trigger even more volatility. One person who was seemingly unsurprised by the revelation was president Donald Trump. As the New York Times reports, he knew about the affair s

Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 23, 2026 Moonshot AI Key Points Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which jumped to fourth place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 55 points, just behind Claude Opus 5.5. The model shows major gains in agentic tasks, coding, and 3D modeling. The parameter count stays at 2.8 tr

New Zhiyuan reports The professor came back from lunch and discovered that a year’s worth of his lecture notes was gone. University of Chicago Law School professor William Baude asked Claude to update the page numbers in a set of old lecture notes. After giving the instructions, he went off to have lunch. Unbelievably, in the time it took to eat a single meal, Claude accidentally deleted a year’s worth of his constitutional law lecture notes. The syllabus

Tuesday’s results suggest that anger over data centers, the large facilities that house the computers powering AI, is becoming a political force. With Democrats now in control of Congress, that could lead to new limits on where data centers can be built and how much say local communities have. Data centers became a ballot-box issue in various states. An NBC exit poll showed how concerned voters are about AI: More than half of respondents believe that AI wi