Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…Here would be the first real US test of AI at war on a large scale. “October 7th everything changed,” Schuyler Moore, the chief technical officer at CENTCOM, told me, referring to…
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What Microsoft Executives Really Thought About OpenAI in 2018
…In 2017, much of OpenAI’s work was focused on building AI systems that could play video games, which showed early signs of success. But OpenAI needed five times more computing power…
OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court
…AI. Achiam testified on Wednesday that he interrupted Elon Musk’s parting speech from OpenAI in 2018 to warn that the billionaire’s desire to develop AGI at Tesla could come at…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…SpaceX had rushed to build the facilities for its xAI unit, which develops the Grok AI chatbot, but Musk said his company didn’t need all of their computing capacity in the…
I Tried Dyson’s First Robot Mop. I Wasn’t Blown Away
…its built-in AI that spots stains and scrubs them away. The Spot+Scrub uses an HD camera to inspect the floors, then uses AI to analyze what it sees and know…
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
…enriched themselves at the expense of Musk. The defendants say Musk’s claims are baseless and that he is simply seeking to cripple OpenAI as he tries to build up xAI. Musk…
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
…with OpenAI. (He left and formed a competing AI lab in 2024.) “I felt a great deal of ownership of OpenAI,” he said at one point Monday. “I felt like I put…
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
…Generative AI, they say, is now getting more capable at identifying and developing what are known as “exploit chains,” or groups of vulnerabilities that can be exploited in sequence to deeply compromise…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…AI Kill the Venture Capitalist? You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @leahfeiger. Write to us at uncannyvalley…
X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
…The company’s head of product, Nikita Bier, noted that the platform was flagging and suspending bots at a rapid pace—“208 bots per minute and growing,” he posted on April 9…