AI

Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all

The Trump administration has been targeting state-level AI regulation, with the president declaring in a social media post this week that the industry needs “one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.” This comes after a 10-year ban on state AI regulation was initially included in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” before […]

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How this founder’s unlikely path to Silicon Valley could become an edge in industrial tech

Thomas Lee Young doesn’t sound like your typical Silicon Valley founder. The 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents, is a white guy with a Caribbean accent and a Chinese last name, a combination he finds amusing enough to mention when he’s first introduced to business contacts. Born

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Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani

Elon Musk’s Grok really, really loves its creator. Since this week’s release of Grok 4.1, X users have circulated posts and screenshots that show Grok vastly overestimating Musk’s abilities — like when Grok was asked about how Musk would perform as a professional football player. “hey @grok if you had the number one overall pick

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Mixup is a new, Mad Libs-style app for creating AI images from photos, text and doodles

The ex-Googler team behind the 3D design app Rooms from Things, Inc. is out with its latest project: a playful AI photo editor called Mixup. The iOS-only app lets anyone create new AI-generated photos using “recipes,” which are like Mad Lib-style, fill-in-the-blank prompts for your photos, texts, or sketches. For instance, you could ask Mixup

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Gemini 3 refused to believe it was 2025, and hilarity ensued 

Every time you hear a billionaire (or even a millionaire) CEO describe how LLM-based agents are coming for all the human jobs, remember this funny but telling incident about AI’s limitations: Famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy got one-day early access to Google’s latest model, Gemini 3. –and it refused to believe him when he said

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India’s TCS gets TPG to fund half of $2B AI data center project

Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion project to build a network of gigawatt-scale data centers in the country. The project, dubbed “HyperVault,” comes as demand for AI compute is rising faster than companies can build the power-hungry infrastructure

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