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Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’

A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5X faster”...

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days.The small startup is shutting down...

Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history...

Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists....

Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the...

OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?

OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company...

Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red...

Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on DC?

Zoë Schiffer: Totally. OK. I need to shift us to a new topic because I'm already feeling quite depressed. This one is about...

OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the...

Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent

As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over...

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. In a full-throated response sent to...

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’

Mark Chen, the chief research officer at OpenAI, sent a forceful memo to staff on Saturday, promising to go head-to-head with the social...