Tesla just lost the head of its robotics division
The humanoid Optimus robots are supposed to be ready for mass production this year. The head of engineering for Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot division, left the company on Friday. Milan Kovac announced his departure on X, insisting that it “will not change a thing” about the company’s plans, which, as
Read moreComputing the Euler-Mascheroni Constant
The Euler-Mascheroni constant is defined as the limit So an obvious way to try to calculate γ would be to evaluate the right-hand side above for large n. This turns out to not be a very good approach. Convergence is slow and rounding error accumulates. A much better approach is
Read moreGolden ratio base numbers
It is possible to express every positive integer as a sum of powers of the golden ratio φ using each power at most once. This means it is possible to create a binary-like number system using φ as the base with coefficients of 0 and 1 in front of each
Read morePioneering Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, an engineer who played a key role in the development of the Macintosh and other landmark Apple products, has died of pancreatic cancer.
Read moreLawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns
he High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research."
Read moreAt the Bitcoin Conference, the Republicans were for sale
"I want to make a big announcement," said Faryar Shirzad, the chief policy officer of Coinbase, to a nearly empty room. His words echoed across the massive hall at the Bitcoin Conference, deep in the caverns of The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, and it wasn't apparent how many people
Read moreWeek in Review: Why Anthropic cut access to Windsurf
Welcome back to Week in Review! Got lots for you today, including why Windsurf lost access to Claude, ChatGPT’s new features, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk’s fight with Donald Trump, and lots more. Have a great weekend! Duh: During an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic’s co-founder had a perfectly
Read moreWill Musk vs. Trump affect xAI’s $5 billion debt deal?
While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI. Musk merged X and xAI earlier this year, with Bloomberg reporting this week that he was
Read moreSuperblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts
Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.
Read moreSage Unveils AI Trust Label to Empower SMB’s
Sage announced the development of its AI Trust Label – a first-of-its-kind initiative to bring greater clarity and accountability to how AI is developed and used in business software. The AI Trust Label is designed to provide customers with clear, accessible information about the way AI functions across Sage products.
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