Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI
For the back half of the 20th century (what Fortune founder Henry Luce called “The American Century”), MBA…
Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 30: Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose,…
Bagel Shop Owner Pulls AI Posts, Apologizes After One-Star Reviews
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adam Jones, the 53-year-old owner of Myer’s Bagels in…
Pity the poor AI datacenters facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi
Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the…
Are eager investors telling themselves an incomplete story about AI?
Every summer, an unsettling pattern appears in the data. As temperatures rise, so do drowning deaths. The relationship…
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they…
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical…
Language Models Struggle to Keep a Secret – Unite.AI
AI models can’t keep secrets. Even when told not to reveal them, their writing gives them away, and…
Musk’s Colossus 1 AI supercomputer’s inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn’t be used to train Grok, so Anthropic’s using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO
Last week, Anthropic announced that it had struck a deal with SpaceX to lease all of the latter’s…
“Do You Always Tell the Truth?”: Sam Altman Rests His Case in the OpenAI Trial.
From lines like “the good of humanity” to the “directionally very bad,” Altman’s defense was decent work—if you…
This New Gemini Is Not the Siri We Need
Something felt off when I watched Google’s Android AI presentation this week. My colleague Andrew Lanxon summed up…
AI chip bubble is now bigger than the Nasdaq during dot-com frenzy
The artificial intelligence rally has already reached historic proportions and is now passing some famous — or rather,…