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Sam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer, Anthropic updated Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games, and a judge said that xAI must face an NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution

-Sam Altman thinks it's "quite terrible" for people to have "a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer" and using it five percent of the time. -Anthropic wants to "to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy." -The NAACP filed its legal action against xAI in April, accusing the company that's now known as SpaceXSI of using unpermitted methane gas turbines to power data centers in the Memphis area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices