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March 4, 2025

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Why Elon Musk is targeting a free tax-filing software package | Technology

Hello, and welcome back. In this week’s Techscape: the cost of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting, the emotional shutdown of Skype, and a new documentary on immigration and surveillance. Elon Musk’s cost savings will be very expensive for the US On Saturday, Elon Musk took aim at his next target in the federal government: the technology division of the General Services Administration (GSA), which the Guardian was among the first to report. The GSA, according to its website, “manages federal property and provides contracting options for government agencies”. Its tech division was known as 18F – and was made up of some

March 4, 2025

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Reddit – Dive into anything

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March 4, 2025

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Salesforce Launches AgentExchange Marketplace for AI Agents

Salesforce on Tuesday launched AgentExchange, a marketplace for Agentforce, allowing partners, developers, and the Agentblazer community to build and monetise AI components. The platform supports businesses in the $6 trillion digital labour market. AgentExchange includes over 200 partners, such as Google Cloud, Docusign, and Box, providing prebuilt solutions for AI agents. Businesses can discover, test, and purchase prebuilt actions, topics, and templates on the marketplace or within Salesforce’s agent-building tools. AgentExchange is now live at AgentExchange.Salesforce.com. Prompt templates and topics can be listed and packaged immediately, while agent templates will be available for listing in April 2025. AgentExchange builds on

March 4, 2025

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Lightning AI Joins AI Alliance To Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI

Company Joins International Community of AI Organizations, Led by IBM and Meta, That Includes Leading Startups, Academia, Research and Government Organizations Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, today announced it has joined the AI Alliance, which includes more than 50 leading organizations across industries that are coming together to support open AI research, development, innovation and science. Lightning AI has supported open source AI since 2019 by building and making public PyTorch Lightning, torchmetrics, lit-gpt and lit-llama, enterprise-grade tools available to the general developer community. These tools have set new standards for training foundation models at scale and are

March 4, 2025

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Entangled Others Studio & Sofia Crespo

Artificial Remnants 2.1 (2020) This project is part of an ongoing exploration of artificial life using deep learning to generate insects, as well as their names and anatomical descriptions. This gives us a way to engage with the rich diversity of the natural world in a virtual, digital space. This project is a collaboration with artist Sofia Crespo. www.artificialremnants.com Source link

March 4, 2025

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CFPB staff and leaders clash about whether they’re allowed to work

Leadership and staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are clashing in court over whether the Trump administration is seeking to wind down the agency and if it has allowed workers to continue their legally required duties. Now, a key agency executive is expected to testify in a hearing next week, after a judge expressed concerns the agency would be shut down before she had a chance to weigh in. The CFPB has been targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with Elon Musk posting “RIP” to the agency in early February, and a lawsuit filed by the

March 4, 2025

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The Download: Woolly mice, and data centers in space

They’re small, fluffy and kind of cute, but these mice represent a milestone in de-extinction efforts, according to their creators. The animals have undergone a series of genetic tweaks that give them woolly mammoth-like features—and their creation may bring scientists a step closer to resurrecting the ancient, giant animals that roamed the tundra thousands of years ago. Scientists at Colossal have been working to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, since the company was launched four years ago.  Now, her team has shown that they can create healthy animals that look the way the team wants them to look—and pave the way

March 4, 2025

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