AI News: Sam vs Elon, Claude 1m Context, Situational Awareness $1.5B
Matthew Berman· 2025-08-13 15:56
Elon Musk and Sam Alman are feuding again. And I don't really want to go too deep into the drama, but at the same time, there's a couple interesting implications from what Elon is claiming and also Sam Alman's counter claims. And Apple is right in the middle of the battle.Let's start here. This was really the original tweet that kicked it all off. Hey Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grock in your must-have section when X is the number one news app in the world and Grock is number five ...
How to Unlock Your Inner Superpower | Corinna Vistan | TEDxBritishSchoolManila
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:54
Hello. Uh, my name is Karina Vistan Takahashi. Uh, I spent 16 years living and working in the United States and nine years of that was spent working at Marvel Studios where I was director of creative content.I started working at the studio right around the time of Iron Man 2 and I worked all the way until my last movie which was Avengers Endgame in 2019. And since then I moved back to the Philippines where I worked as the head of originals for Vue, an Asian streaming platform servicing multiple countries ar ...
Why Maths Matters for Life: Skills Beyond Numbers | Christopher Stanley | TEDxBritishSchoolManila
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:54
So I've been a math teacher now for 19 years and uh in that time I think I can say with some certainty that well people either love or hate my subject. It it has this visceral reaction uh to people. Certainly it's one we can all remember from school ourselves. Now I don't I'm not sure exactly why that is. I've got a few ideas, but certainly people love it because, well, it's satisfying. You solve problems. Uh, it's enjoyable. You can see yourself getting better at it. I think that's one of the drivers why s ...
Stocks hit record highs, Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for a 50 basis point cut in Sept
Yahoo Finance· 2025-08-13 15:53
Welcome to Yahoo Finance's flagship show, The Morning Brief. I'm Julie Hyman. Let's get to the three things you need to know today.First up, US stock futures are rising this morning as global equities trade at record highs. Investors optimistic on the prospect for a rate cut at the Fed's September meeting following the July consumer price index report. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson telling Fox Business the Fed should be open to an outsized cut at its next meeting.He wanted went on to tell Bloomberg that t ...
Books Are Dangerous | Kerol Harrod | TEDxTWU
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:52
[Applause] I'm here today to tell you, to convince you that books are dangerous. That may not be what you expect to hear from someone with a library science degree, but it's true. Books are dangerous.It's part of the reason that libraries have been destroyed throughout history. Even before there were books, as we know them, things like tablets and scrolls and other objects of information were destroyed in ancient libraries like Nineveh, Alexandria, Babylon, Assyria, China, just to name a few. We saw it agai ...
The hidden meaning behind your travel photos | Salena Parker | TEDxTWU
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:52
[Applause] On average, Americans take about 20 photos a day. That means at any given point, there are moments like the one behind me where you want to take and share with your friends and family. And that number only gets bigger when we travel.We filter, frame, share, and crop our photos to make them as eye-catching as possible. But I'm not here to talk about filters or travel photo ideas. Instead, I want to look at what power and consent look like in a photograph.How do we gain access or give access to our ...
How Hard Work Hurts: Is Overworking a Form of Self Harm? | Jodi Jarrett | TEDxTWU
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:52
[Applause] Is anybody out there? I'm dying. Can anybody see me? I'm here buried beneath a sea of emails and unmet expectations. Can anybody see me? I'm dying. Oh, thank you so much for this award. It's such a pleasure to be here. Oh, have I ever told you how much I love what I do? I'm dying. Is this hustle? Feels like pain. But hey, at least I'm being productive. Today I'm speaking to someone very, very specific. It may or may not be you. So, let me ask you, when was the last time you felt enough? I mean it ...
Zelenskyy meets with EU leaders ahead of Trump-Putin summit
CNBC Television· 2025-08-13 15:52
We'll start with the latest in Washington today. The president speaking with European leaders ahead of that meeting with Russia's Putin. Let's get to our Aean Jabers who's outside the White House.Morning Aan. Yeah, good morning to you, Carl. We're told that that call between the president and European leaders took place at 9:00 a.m. this morning. Uh, President Zalinski of Ukraine in Berlin today uh meeting with European leaders trying to set some parameters around what he may or may not agree to ahead of th ...
Why we hide our differences — and how to stop | David Jiang | TEDxShahe Street
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-13 15:51
Petar Iliachovski is remembered as a brilliant composer behind Swan Lake and the Nutcracker. But behind the curtain, he constantly censored himself. His querness was not only rejected, it was made invisible.To survive, he divided himself into two roles. One, the celebrated composer and the man behind the truth a society wouldn't accept. We celebrate his music today, but we often overlook the price he paid to create it.Alan Turing is remembered as a genius who cracked Nazi codes, saved millions of lives duri ...
U.S. citizen detained by ICE says she wasn't given water for 24 hours during two days in custody
NBC News· 2025-08-13 15:45
It was like a scene like they were just ready to like attack and chase. VeZ described seeing unmarked cars and masked men in civilian clothing going after people. All I felt was that he grabbed and just slammed me to the floor. He said that I was interfering with what he was doing, so he was going to arrest me.And that's when I asked him to show me his badge number, his ID identification. Uh, I asked him for like if he had a warrant and he said I didn't need to know any of that. Federal prosecutors say step ...