emerging technologies
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What’s Cooler Than Building a Literal God? Building the New Uber
An interesting shift seems to be happening in the language of OpenAI’s biggest hype people. The term “artificial general intelligence” and the…
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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you’d think that he just likes the sound of his own voice—though you wonder…
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Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that…
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AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds
You know all of those reports about artificial intelligence models successfully passing the bar or achieving Ph.D.-level intelligence? Looks like we should…
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Get Ready to Hear a Lot About Robot and AI ‘Swarms’
Scale is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the AI and robotics “revolution,” which is to say: How are we going…
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Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI Models
Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny.…
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Former OpenAI Exec Explains Why He Tried to Do a Coup Against Sam Altman
It’s been nearly two years since OpenAI’s board of directors (very briefly) fired Sam Altman over a lack of confidence in his…
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What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data Center
The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the…
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Everyone Is Laying People Off This Week. Researchers Say They’re Going to Regret It
The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount…






