Screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building in D.C. on Monday showed a fake video showing President Trump rubbing and kissing Elon Musk's feet, accompanied by the words: "Long Live the Real King."
The big picture: While it's unclear who was responsible for the videos at HUD, Musk in recent days demanded federal employees send an email with "approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week" by end of Monday. Some agency heads have instructed workers not to comply.
Anthropic said Monday its latest model — Claude 3.7 Sonnet — integrates advanced reasoning capabilities for the first time.
Why it matters: While OpenAI and others have released separate models focused on longer reasoning times, Anthropic adds advanced reasoning into standard models.
The war for AI dominance is playing out on a global stage, sparking a heated debate about technological supremacy versus national ideology.
Why it matters: As U.S. companies, including Scale AI, ply their wares to foreign governments and corporations, they're increasingly aware that being American is no longer necessarily an absolute advantage.
A weather projection across the U.S. before and after Nvidia's new AI model is applied to the data. Animation: Nvidia
A new, AI-based weather forecast model could significantly improve anticipating hazardous weather by zooming in from national to local levels, according to its creator Nvidia.
Why it matters: The new model allows for more efficient and rapid simulations of upcoming weather at ultra-high resolution. This could help significantly improve forecasts, especially those in the short- to medium-range.
Apple on Monday morning announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. and hire 20,000 people over the next four years, with expansion and construction planned from coast to coast.
The new jobs will focus on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.
Apple plans to greatly expand chip and server manufacturing in the U.S., plus skills development for students and workers across the country.
Why it matters: Apple's announcement — which the company calls its "largest-ever spend commitment" — is precisely the kind of win President Trump has been looking for with his push to move manufacturing back to the U.S.
A hot startup that grew overnight into a billion-dollar behemoth is racing with established tech giants for supremacy in a new market that everyone expects will unlock a future of abundance and profit.
Flashback: That sounds like a description of OpenAI vs Google et al., but it's actually an account of the "browser wars" at the dawn of the web 30 years ago — when Netscape vied with Microsoft to control the software people would use to access the internet.
Last year was the worst on record for government-imposed internet shutdowns, with at least 296 outages across 54 countries, according to a new report from Access Now.
Why it matters: Governments are increasingly shutting down the internet to silence dissenting voices during conflicts, protests and elections.
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