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The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019,...

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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring evening in Louisville,...

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AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm CEO—sees a new...

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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in a conference room...

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Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important...

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The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin:...

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Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI

But more piles of fascinating research are only useful to Google if they generate that most important of outputs: profit. Most customers generally...

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Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

“Maybe an Alzheimer’s patient is frightened, so a nurse has to spend some time calming them down, or perhaps they have lost some...

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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

That fear was evident among some rationalists as news of the violent incidents surrounding LaSota had spread. “I don’t want Ziz to ever...

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Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination

No question about it: Nadella’s Microsoft is a triumph. Finally, in the 2020s, Microsoft has centered on the most innovative tech since the...

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The Great American Microchip Mobilization

Under Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike, the US has been determined to “reshore” chipmaking. Now money and colossal infrastructure are flowing to...

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Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender. Source...

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