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Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos
Waymo's biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place.
Apr 22
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Kai Williams
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Timothy B. Lee
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Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break
What Muse Spark tells us about Meta’s new AI strategy.
Apr 20
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Kai Williams
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Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
Apr 8
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Kai Williams
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Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry
But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics.
Apr 6
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Kai Williams
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Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
Apr 2
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Timothy B. Lee
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OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app
"We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests," an exec said.
Mar 25
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Timothy B. Lee
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How to think about AI company finances
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.
Mar 19
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Timothy B. Lee
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It still doesn’t look like there’s an AI bubble
Anthropic's annualized revenue doubled in just two months.
Mar 16
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Timothy B. Lee
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The Pentagon’s bombshell deal with OpenAI, explained
Only Congress can put meaningful limits on government abuse of AI.
Mar 2
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Timothy B. Lee
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Sorry skeptics, AI really is changing the programming profession
But AI agents aren't making programmers obsolete.
Feb 27
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Timothy B. Lee
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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.
Feb 26
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Timothy B. Lee
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Waymo just revealed a crucial statistic for scaling its technology
At any moment, just 70 people oversee Waymo’s 3,000-vehicle fleet.
Feb 18
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Timothy B. Lee
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