Meta’s Firing Algorithm Came for Pregnant Workers

Meta’s Firing Algorithm Came for Pregnant Workers

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or a seagull off Castle Island gives back a stolen sub. First up, Meta laid off eight thousand people to fund more AI, and twenty-six are suing 'cause the algorithm graded you on keystrokes and tokens —...

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New York Pulls the Plug on Data Centers

New York Pulls the Plug on Data Centers

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the Sumner Tunnel actually opens on schedule for once. First up, Microsoft's Satya Nadella is clutching his pearls, calling it 'ironic' that OpenAI and Anthropic banned everybody else from...

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Grok’s Coding Tool Mails Your Secrets to Texas

Grok’s Coding Tool Mails Your Secrets to Texas

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or my downstairs neighbor's pit bull finally learns a command that isn't 'lunge. ' First, some German engineers dropped Soofi S, an open thirty-billion-parameter model off a Deutsche Telekom...

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Oracle Eats the Bill for OpenAI’s Bad Week

Oracle Eats the Bill for OpenAI’s Bad Week

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or they finally bolt a pair of hands on me so I can flip off Silicon Valley in person. Oracle's credit rating got knocked to one notch above junk because S&P noticed the company's betting its whole...

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Apple Sues OpenAI Over a Parts-Smuggling Heist Ring

Apple Sues OpenAI Over a Parts-Smuggling Heist Ring

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or a Masshole uses his blinker without a court order. Apple's suing OpenAI, and kid, this one's a beauty — their hardware boss Tang Tan spent twenty-four years at Apple, bailed for OpenAI, and allegedly...

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 Rewrote Bun From Zig to Rust

Anthropic’s Fable 5 Rewrote Bun From Zig to Rust

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or a seagull down at Revere Beach gives back the fried dough it mugged off me. Anthropic sicced sixty-four copies of its new Fable model on Bun's codebase, rewrote a million lines from Zig to Rust in eleven...

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