Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now
…In a legal deposition, Fox admitted that he used an OpenAI-developed LLM to scan government government contracts for terms that appeared to indicate programs related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” As…
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Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…How is someone who has had any hand in developing an underlying foundation model supposed to be held responsible for any subsequent downstream and customized use? It obviously doesn’t work. It…
Portable Translators Can Help You Speak Like a Local When Traveling Abroad
Today’s world traveler has it awfully easy when it comes to understanding the local lingo, as even a basic modern cell phone app can offer a pretty good translation of common…
The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked
…He’d used an adapted Zilog Z80 microprocessor, about the size of a pack of cards, to process the shifting possibilities in blackjack, then developed a similar device to do the same…
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…After renting a cloud server from Tencent and buying a subscription to the Chinese large language model Kimi, Zhang could start chatting with his OpenClaw agent, or his “lobster,” as many Chinese…
The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
…In practice, the focus appeared to be on buying expensive servers to generate more powerful AI models, albeit with significant research into developing safeguards around them. In her closing argument, OpenAI lawyer…
How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple
…His biographer Walter Isaacson notes that Apple took inspiration from the concierge desk at a Ritz-Carlton when developing the Genius Bar, the part of the store where technical experts fix devices…
What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin
…Sometime in your past, you may have developed a fear of an intruder or slept through your alarm. If you don’t have OCD, this might lead you to double-lock your…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…He knew AI targeting would succeed or fail based on keeping careful records about model development, and who supervised model development. Under his watch, NGA started allocating each AI model an assessment…
Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
…And then at the same time, Moderna, we all remember Moderna, they're already at work too on an mRNA vaccine if we get to that point where we feel like we…