The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
…month that it will build a 2 gigawatt AI data center in Ulanqab connected directly to the company’s own clean power supply. But experts caution that looking at AI data centers…
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Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo
…The Wrong Direction Inevitably there would be a company that thinks it can ride on the success of the MacBook Neo without understanding what makes it tick. Last week, Microsoft announced two…
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
…The company tells WIRED that Simo remains on medical leave, and expects her return, noting that she worked directly with Brockman on these organizational changes. In the last year, OpenAI has faced…
Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption
…He says Uber is fighting in Washington, DC, to guarantee that ride-hail companies can participate in the proposed autonomous vehicle program alongside AV companies that run their own apps. “Both the…
Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe
…criticism remained confined to private group chats and rarely evolved into direct challenges to Amodei’s decisions. They described the company’s regular all-hands meetings with Amodei, which they call Dario…
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
…Emilio Andere, cofounder and CEO of Wafer, says the company performs reinforcement learning on open source models to teach them to write kernel code, or software that interacts directly with hardware in…
How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They ‘Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
…its board of directors, giving him more voting power than his cofounders, who would be left with three in total. “I would unequivocally have initial control of the company, but this will…
The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers
1X, a Norwegian-American robotics company, today revealed details about the five-finger hands attached to its soft, helpful robot companion, Neo. The hands are built with actuators designed to replicate how…
Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
…She cited concerns about the company’s business plans potentially relying on “nonexistent or speculative technologies,” the reported thoroughness of its accounting, and the adequacy of its board of directors. Members’ pension…
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch
…including cancellation insurance through the company Xcover, and installed payments through Affirm. When they realized they couldn’t make the flight, they contacted Priceline, which directed them to Norse. After looking for…