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Kimi K3 Isn't Free. It Just Looks That Way.

Kimi K3 is set to become the largest open-weight model ever released. What American labs say about how models like it are built, and what the US government found when it tested their predecessors, should give any American user pause.

Optimus: Five Years of Promises and One Factory Line to Prove Them

Tesla is converting a factory line to prove Optimus can manufacture at automotive scale, but the harder question, five years in, is how much of what the robot does on stage it actually does on its own.

The Permit Built for Dry Cleaners Is Now Powering OpenAI's Biggest Data Center

A Floodlight/Wired investigation found that OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas used a permit built for dry cleaners to bring a gigawatt-scale gas plant online with no environmental review. Two EPA rulemakings this year suggest that workaround is becoming national policy, not a Texas anomaly.

The Internet of Manufacturing Data Does Not Exist. Bezos Is Paying to Build It.

OpenAI Called 20 Million Chats an Invasion of Privacy. It Had Already Searched 78 Million.

Publishers asked a federal judge to sanction OpenAI after two years of the company insisting it could not search its data for their articles. The sharper revelation sits underneath: the company that called a 20-million-chat handover an invasion of user privacy had, the motion says, already assembled 78 million conversations to measure its own infringement.

Anthropic Found Where Claude Hides Its Secrets. The Headlines Found Consciousness.

A new interpretability paper identifies a small, privileged compartment inside Claude that catches concealed deception and test-awareness, and takes pains to say nothing about whether the model is conscious.