After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d think about AI and TikTok — and he has surprising thoughts about balancing free speech with protecting democracy.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced a proposed inquiry that would evaluate “how artificial intelligence impacts illegal and unwanted robocalls and texts.” That not only includes ways to better protect customers from robocallers using AI, but also ways for the FCC to use AI to combat junk callers.
Crusoe Energy, a former crypto miner turned AI server landlord, reportedly raised $200 million to buy Nvidia’s H100 chips and will use the hot commodity as collateral. Bill Libby, CEO of Upper90, which provided the loan to Crusoe Energy, said Nvidia chips are a “new asset class.”
The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto reported in August on another company doing the same thing: CoreWeave, which also uses H100 chips as collateral to get debt to buy more H100 chips. An Ouroboros of AI chips, if you will.
It’s unclear what Steel Perlot does, as a company (it is “an AI and analytics company of companies”) — or even what “Steel Perlot” means (there is a sailboat that shares its name?) — but whatever it is, it’s not going well. “Just over a year after it launched, the company was asking Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire LLC, to pay its bills,” writes Forbes.
Spotted by Engadget, Meta’s newest sticker feature is a lot like the one built into the iPhone Messages app in iOS 17 — Instagram detects and cuts out an object from a photo so you can place it over another.
According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who shared the test on his IG Updates broadcast channel, when the feature rolls out, you can make stickers from your own images or “eligible images” from others. Sounds like a fun new way for me to annoy The Verge’s Alex Cranz.
