Category Archives: Business

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.

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Jack Dorsey’s Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity

Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.

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The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.

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Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

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How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

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What to Expect When You’re Convicted

When a formerly incarcerated “troubleshooter for the mafia” looked for a second career he chose the thing he knew best. He became a prison consultant for white-collar criminals.

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China’s Effort to Build a Competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Off to a Bumpy Start

China has launched over 100 satellites for two broadband networks that could eventually rival the service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, but progress is hampered by launch bottlenecks and high failure rates.

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Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could be weaponized to fuel censorship.

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DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters

A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”

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