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DOE explains spacetime

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20-year-old man arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house

San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Friday morning, The San Francisco Standard reports. The incident was caught on surveillance cameras shortly before 7AM ET. Later that morning, someone matching the suspect's description was seen making threats outside OpenAI's Mission Bay offices, where he was arrested around 9AM ET. OpenAI spokesperson Jamie Radice confirmed the incident in a stat...

The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’

Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-generated Lego videos that have been produced by Iranian content creation group Explosive Media in the weeks since the US and Israel began dropping bombs on the country. In Explosive Media's music video take on how things played out, the US military is a joke for losing multiple planes and helico...

AI (and) Maximalism

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TechCrunch is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it

SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos of humanoid robots, sessions on autonomous driving's software revolution, deep dives into cyber defense and climate tech, and candid conversations about how AI is rewriting the global music and anime industries.

Fear and loathing at OpenAI

Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organization permanently. This week, The New Yorker published a deep look at Altman, his time at OpenAI, and the questions about whether he's the right person to be in charge of a technology as important and transformative as artificial intelligence. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive acce...

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