I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…the machine upstairs may be able to do these things just as well, if not better. But given how much I enjoy chatting with the people who work there, I think I…
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Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump
…In some ways, they went through this with Reality Labs trying to make the metaverse happen, and that never obviously materialized and I don't think will. This is a little bit…
Is an Air-Conditioning Revolution Coming to Europe?
…The machines that keep us cool are also heating the planet. The electricity they consume already accounts for roughly 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, slightly more than the aviation industry…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
…Allen catches up to this one—which, I’m alarmed to see, has luminous white lights shaped like eyes on its front—and reads a name off the side: “CJ.” I think…
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
…We just built you a machine that can decode your language. And in 10 years, we’re going to give you a machine that can interfere with your thoughts the way we…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…Leo, in paragraph 99 of his encyclical, seems to slam the door on such thinking: “We must avoid the misconception of equating this type of ‘intelligence’ with that of human beings,” he…
Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
The apartments have been home and office for the Basalt team for the past two years, replete with all the staples of a hacker house, including a laundry machine, an outdoor gym…
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
…a slow process of social automation in which human beings begin delegating to machines the ways they think, choose, inform themselves, and relate to one another. In other words, the risk is…
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
…He’s trusting that machines will be able to determine what is true, what is newsworthy, and what won’t get him sued. One of his agents runs an analysis on the…
Our Favorite Brain-Boosting Toys for Kids of All Ages
…Already got some Smart Play? The 10 other compatible kits, including Mewtwo's Lab Break and Cubone and Gengar's Spooky Showdown, have the tags but not the Smart Bricks. $70 and…