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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.
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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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The many masks LLMs wear
Why frontier labs struggle to keep their chatbots in character.
Feb 9
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Kai Williams
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A volcano scorched hundreds of Roman scrolls — can AI recover their text?
Despite early breakthroughs, it could take years to decode all the scrolls.
Feb 17
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Sage Bergerson
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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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The feds are probing Waymo's behavior around school children
It's not clear if Waymo was at fault for striking a child at 6 mph.
Jan 29
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Timothy B. Lee
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