The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok
… An All-American Tale Wu previously worked in China’s tech industry before he began moonlighting as a documentary filmmaker. …
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Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
… Lehane views these goals as one and the same. “When I was in the White House, we always used to talk about how good policy equals good politics,” says Lehane. “You have to think about both of these things moving in concert.” After working on crisis communications in Bill Clinton’s White House, Leha… …
The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’
… I've always felt that many of the problems of this world are simply power problems, whether it's abundance of water or abundance of food. If power was free, I think a lot of that stuff could be solved basically overnight. So that is my techno-optimist view on solar panels, batteries, and EVs. …
Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
… Favorite news source: Democracy Now Favorite subreddit: Hasan Piker or OkBuddy Hasan Favorite tech product: Apple Watch I'm not a very techie guy, but the one thing I use quite frequently is my Apple Watch for fitness. …
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
… I would arguably put tech executives on the same level as political leaders because of the amount of power that they now wield in this country. …
Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
… They look at the confluence of power in the tech industry with power in Washington, DC. …
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
… The main thing that occurs to me is the power paradox. You have these technologies that empower us as individuals, but also dramatically increase power in the hands of a very small number of people on the West Coast of the US and in the tech sector in China. …
Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe
… But former employees say that Anthropic is unusual in how intensely it believes in its mission, and how explicitly it tells employees that technological and commercial power are a means to achieve it. …
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
… Hall, together with Alex Imas and Jeremy Nguyen, two AI-focused economists, set up experiments in which agents powered by popular models including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were asked to summarize documents, then subjected to increasingly harsh conditions. …
The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco
… Operated by private firms like Bauer's Intelligent Transportation, many of them were luxury coaches, sometimes double-decker, much larger than city buses, and they seemed out of place, appearing as outsize apparitions as they crawled across narrow, sloping neighborhood streets, physical symbols of … …