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Elon Musk announced his new company xAI and said it has the goal of understanding the nature of the universe. Jaap Ariens | Nurfoto | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s xAI has lost its second co-founder in the past two days.Influential researcher Jimmy Barr announced his resignation in a post about X on Tuesday, thanking Musk and writing, “Thank you for helping co-found the company in its early days.”Barr’s departure comes a day after fellow co-founder Tony Wu announced his departure from xAI, which merged with Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX earlier this month. The exodus of the xAI co-founder comes as SpaceX…
US President Donald Trump continues to threaten Iran with possible military strikes if it does not meet demands ranging from nuclear enrichment to ballistic missiles.In comments posted Tuesday to Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, President Trump hinted at the possibility of aggressive action if a deal with Iran is not reached.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Either we come to a deal or we’re going to have to do something very tough,” Trump told reporters.The remarks came as Iranian Security Chief Ali Larijani met with Oman’s King Haitham bin Tariq Al Said to discuss the results of last week’s talks…
Two men are scheduled to appear in court following a dramatic armed robbery involving an armored security truck on a motorway in Italy on Monday. Masked gangsters attacked vehicles with Kalashnikov rifles and stole the cars of students as they tried to flee, ending in a shootout with Italian police Carabinieri. The group, made up of at least six people, fired several shots at the Carabinieri, wounding one police officer. Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crocet described the incident as a “bloody incident with a gunfight, and the absolute priority is to protect the communities endangered by the madness of the…
Thomas Frank is ‘confident’ he will remain in charge at Tottenham despite fans slamming the head coach after yet another defeat.Frank suffered his 15th defeat as Spurs manager in a 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle, and his win rate in the league was just 26.9 per cent, the lowest of any Spurs manager in the Premier League era. The defeat dropped Spurs to 16th place and they are now five points clear of the relegation zone, but they could have dropped to three points if Manchester United had not equalized in stoppage time against 18th-placed West Ham. Use Chrome Browser…
AI lab Flapping Airplanes just raised $180 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia, Index and others to do what most labs have quietly given up on: train models to learn like humans instead of scavenging the internet. The founding team, made up of brothers Ben and Asher Spector and co-founder Aidan Smith, is betting that fundamentally data-efficient training could open the door to entirely new AI capabilities. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, TechCrunch AI Editor Russell Brandon speaks with all three founders about why investors wrote such big checks to labs with no products, what AI’s massive efficiencies…
Tech giants like Amazon and Meta are overhauling their performance evaluation systems, and experts say the changes could lead to more layoffs and layoffs.Amazon announced on January 28 that it would cut 16,000 jobs, on top of 14,000 in October, but is asking employees to submit three to five “accomplishments,” Business Insider reported last month, citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents viewed by BI. The report notes that the company has asked questions to that effect before, but says this is the first time Amazon has “explicitly formalized” a system for all employees within the company regarding…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026.Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOver 1,400 sales force Two people familiar with the effort told CNBC that employees have signed a letter asking CEO Marc Benioff to halt potential business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”We are deeply concerned by recent reports that Salesforce has pitched AI technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ‘rapidly’ hire 10,000 new employees and assist with veterinarian tip reporting,” the letter reads.The letter asks Benioff to cease “all active marketing and…
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., rejected a request by prosecutors to indict two Democratic senators, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, on charges of seditious conspiracy, MS Now reported Tuesday night.The attempted indictment of Mr. Kelly and Mr. Slotkin is related to a November video in which Mr. Kelly and Mr. Slotkin participated, along with four other Democrats, in which they reminded members of the U.S. military of their right to refuse to comply with illegal orders from their superiors. The video was released in the wake of continued extrajudicial killings by the US…
Leqaa Kordia’s family said they were left in the dark when 33-year-old Leqaa Kordia was rushed from an immigration detention center in Texas to a nearby hospital late last week.Cordia’s family and legal representatives said they were given no information about her whereabouts or condition for more than 12 hours. Her cousin Hamza Abushaban said the family had “hit a wall like crazy” in their search for answers.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Full transparency: Many in her family thought she might have died, especially since her condition was kept secret,” Abushaban told Al Jazeera. “Sometimes silence says it…
At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a high school and residential area in northeastern British Columbia, Canadian police said Tuesday. Police responded to reports of a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School around 1:20pm local time on Tuesday and found six people dead and dozens injured. The other person died while being taken to the hospital. The suspect in the shooting was found dead from an “apparent self-inflicted wound,” police said. Both victims were airlifted to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. Police said about 25 other people with non-life-threatening injuries were being treated at local…