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xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-25 07:50:50

In Brief Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot,” with the company deciding to “accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles.” “As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude,” xAI

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10, #822

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 23:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. There's a "tut" and a "tut-tut" in there -- which is pretty hilarious -- but they land in different categories. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-10 15:44:29

Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat 19 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save PA Dr Jean Innes (left) pictured with Foreign Secretary David Lammy (centre) and his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot at a meeting in London The chief executive of the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) has resigned following staff unrest and a warning the charity was at risk of collapse. Dr Jean Innes said she was stepping down from the

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Jujutsu for everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 17:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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Jujutsu for Everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 03:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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‘The Institute’ Will Deepen Its Stephen King Mystery With a Second Season

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-30 06:30:23

Have you been watching The Institute? While MGM+ isn’t the best-known streaming platform, it’s worth finding your way there just to check out the Stephen King adaptation, set in and around a secretive facility that snatches psychically gifted kids from their families and tasks them with some very dark deeds. And it seems many folks have been doing just that, because it just got renewed. According to an MGM+ press release sharing the news, The Institute had the streamer’s best-ever premiere. You

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Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

news.ycombinator.com Dan Milmo 2025-11-05 08:18:58

When the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a “fitting memorial” to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. More than a decade on, Britain’s leading AI institute is in turmoil as staff warn it may be in danger of collapse and ministers demand a shift in focus to defence and security work. “The ATI brand is well recognised internationally,” says Dame Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of S

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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-13 00:06:13

UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus Technology Secretary Peter Kyle wants the Alan Turing Institute to focus on defence In a letter seen by the BBC, Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the Turing Institute would "step up at a time of national need". They warned that the body - which receives £100m from the government - is at risk of collapse after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle instructed it to prioritise defence, and threatened to pull its funding if it did not. It com

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-21 18:01:26

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse 5 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Joshua Nevett Political reporter Share Save EPA Staff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised a series of "serious and escalating concerns" in a whistleblowing complaint submitted to the Charity Co

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Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-29 10:55:35

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of Section 8, as well as the entirety of Section 9 and Section 10, were deleted from Article 1 of the Constitution on the U.S. government’s official website over the past month. The changes to the sections, which pertained to the Congressional powers, the rights of individual states, and the rights to due p

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Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 20:50:38

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. "It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website," the Library of Congress said today. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and e

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Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 00:29:56

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished from the digital version of the document. They've since been restored. 404 Media first reported on the edits after users on Lemmy forums spotted them. There are many ways to read a copy of the US Constitution. But the Library of Congress' online version is one of the easiest to find. Alongside its

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Org tutorials

news.ycombinator.com Worg People 2025-12-29 17:09:20

This tutorial describes a workflow for running a series of meetings, for example of a commission or any other group, and for keeping track of the groups tasks. Link to the tutorial. You may also want to check this message by Christian Egli about his own setup for taking notes during meetings.

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Anduril alums raise $24M Series A to bring military logistics out of the Excel spreadsheet era

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-03 10:00:15

Silicon Valley is doubling down on defense as geopolitical tensions rise and appetite for modernizing warfare grows. And while many of the startups garnering large valuations are focused on hardware and weaponry — think Anduril, Shield AI, and Skydio — Rune Technologies wants to tackle AI-enabled software for military logistics. “The U.S. military runs on Excel spreadsheets and white boards and manual processes right now to execute logistics operations,” co-founder David Tuttle told TechCrunch.

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BNY Mellon will have custody of Ripple's new stablecoin as institutional interest in crypto swells

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-26 02:41:45

Bank of New York Mellon will be the primary custodian for the Ripple's U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin reserves going forward, the two companies said Wednesday. The partnership should enhance regulatory compliance for Ripple, the issuer of ripple USD (RLUSD), and boost institutional credibility for the company as well as the fast growing stablecoin industry. BNY is the nation's oldest bank and primarily serves institutions and corporations. It also adds to the growing number of traditional insti

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‘The Institute’ Is a Solid Stephen King Adaptation

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-27 15:00:52

Stephen King is easily the most-adapted horror author; his books are so popular, many of the biggest ones have been adapted multiple times. Right now, there’s both a Carrie series and a feature take on The Stand in the works, and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man just dropped its first trailer. With the same titles seemingly caught in Hollywood’s revolving door, it can be tempting to forget King is still regularly publishing new stories. That’s one reason The Institute is such an intriguing new ar

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Minister tells Turing AI institute to focus on defence

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-02 04:59:56

Minister tells Turing AI institute to focus on defence 1 hour ago Share Save Joshua Nevett Political reporter Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save BBC Cabinet minister Peter Kyle has written to the Alan Turing Institute Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security. In a letter, Kyle said boosting the UK's AI capabilities was "critical" to national security and

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Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-25 20:30:03

Andy Konwinski, computer scientist and co-founder of Databricks and Perpelexity, announced on Monday that his personal company, Laude, is forming a new AI research institute backed with a $100 million pledge of his own money. Laude Institute is less an AI research lab and more like a fund looking to make investments structured similar to grants. In addition to Konwinski, the institute’s board includes UC Berkeley professor Dave Patterson (known for a string of award-winning research), Jeff Dean

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Latest Tech News

xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 10, #822

Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat

Jujutsu for everyone

Jujutsu for Everyone

‘The Institute’ Will Deepen Its Stephen King Mystery With a Second Season

Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

Org tutorials

Anduril alums raise $24M Series A to bring military logistics out of the Excel spreadsheet era

BNY Mellon will have custody of Ripple's new stablecoin as institutional interest in crypto swells

‘The Institute’ Is a Solid Stephen King Adaptation

Minister tells Turing AI institute to focus on defence

Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

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