11 Jun 2026
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host nonconsensual explicit images and videos of women, months after Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI said it would introduce restrictions to stop the creation of potentially harmful sexualized deepfakes.
@wired, Matt Burgess
2026
11 Jun 2026
Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why... until now.
@ajdell, AJ Dellinger
2026
11 Jun 2026
Hidden Web of Fungus Inside Earth Could Reach The Sun a Billion Times
The ground beneath your feet is not quiescent. It zings and pulses with frenzied activity, much of it driven by a partnership between plants and fungi that dates back at least 450 million years. This is the mycorrhizal network – a vast system of fungal filaments locked in a mutual exchange with the plant life that carpets our planet, transporting nutrients from the soil and receiving in return…
@ScienceAlert, Michelle Starr
2026
11 Jun 2026
Top Tier India IT Bets on Physical AI as Coding Demand Declines
Physical AI is breathing new life into India’s IT and BPO industry at a time when autonomous AI tools such as Anthropic’s Claude are steadily taking over the coding and back-office work that once powered the country’s technology boom. In Bengaluru, the city often called India’s Silicon Valley, a new kind of worker is quietly emerging. Laborers can now be seen wearing cameras strapped to their…
@NSAmericas, Narayan Ammachchi
2026
11 Jun 2026
From startup to $1.8 trillion: The investors who took a chance on SpaceX now reap the rewards
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is prepared to be placed on top, at the company's Boca Chica complex, ahead of Starship's eighth test flight which is targeted for March 3, from Starbase, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. March 2, 2025. Kaylee Greenlee | Reuters
Yun Li
2026
11 Jun 2026
Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
Coinbase announced Wednesday that it had launched "Coinbase for Agents," a new platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to users’ Coinbase accounts to trade crypto, access data and eventually make payments and purchases autonomously.
@coindesk, Margaux Nijkerk
2026
11 Jun 2026
SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch the biggest stock market float in history amid warnings that it may be overvalued.
Graeme Wearden
2026
11 Jun 2026
A Havertown native is giving historic $112.6 million to Drexel, months after his record gift to St. Joe’s Prep
Drexel University has received a $112.6 million gift — the largest in its history by more than double — to establish its new college of engineering and computing, renovate space in two buildings to foster programs within it, and provide more scholarships. The gift comes from The Howley Foundation, a Cleveland-based philanthropic group whose mission, according to its website, is “to create social…
Susan Snyder
2026
11 Jun 2026
$112.6 million donation creates Nick Howley College of Engineering and Computing
The Howley Foundation has gifted $112.6 million dollars to Drexel University, establishing the largest donation in the college’s history. In recognition of the donation, the College of Engineering and Computing — to be created through the merger of the College of Engineering, Informatics and Computing, and Biomedical Engineering in Fall 2026 — will be titled the Nick Howley College of Engineering…
Sanjana Bandi
2026