Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
… The former employees argued that their warnings about AI’s economic impacts may have been inconvenient for OpenAI, but they honestly reflected what the company’s research found. …
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Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
… But one of the things that's said at the end was that remaining employees are being asked to join AI teams. So whatever your job was previously, they're internally getting drafted. You're getting drafted into the AI ranks, now your job is going to look quite different. …
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
… Experts told WIRED that the agreement signed at the White House was largely symbolic, and that some of the key aims of the agreement—including having data centers absorb any additional costs to customers’ bills—are largely out of both the White House and tech companies’ hands. “A moratorium would l… …
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
… I studied labor unions in undergrad, I led a campaign against Nike for laying off 1,800 workers without giving them legally mandated severance pay. And we ended up winning that campaign. But during that process, another student turned to me and said, “Why do you care so much about these jobs? …
OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic
… Last month, OpenAI’s chief of global affairs, Chris Lehane, told WIRED that the company will retain its structure after the IPO because, as a public benefit corporation overseen by a nonprofit, it can consider societal impacts of its endeavors without having to prioritize shareholder value above al… …
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
… I feel like every other article that is like, "And these people are nervous, and these people are nervous." Brian's right, the part that is funny is these are the folks that have just gone all in on AI, but I'm still waiting. I'm still waiting for AI to take the jobs. …
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
… This sparked a broader conversation around how the AI industry can do ads in a way that’s helpful and preserves people’s privacy. In February, Perplexity executives said they would stop experimenting with ads in its AI, partly because of the impact on user trust. …
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
The stakes are especially high for OpenAI’s corporate future, as a bad outcome in this case could negatively impact its plans to file for an IPO later this year. The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX which now owns a rival AI lab, xAI to go public. …
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
… Initially, many cases, including a plaintiff she represented in their lawsuit against Grindr in 2017, were dismissed because “judges couldn’t conceive that online platforms were products—and not services.” Now, she says, they regularly succeed past initial dismissals. “We have product liability cla… …
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
… While far from perfect—only fools deployed its work without vetting for errors—it now rivaled or outperformed what a human might come up with. “Some opinions we had about how to structure code have melted away because it’s easier not to fight Claude,” Wolff says. “If Claude wants to do something a … …
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