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Pity poor Princeton. The ultra-elite university has a mere $38 billion in endowment money. Many of its dorms lack air conditioning. And it’s in New Jersey. I kid about New Jersey, of course. Despite not being allowed to pump one’s own gas there, the “Garden State” grew on me during three years spent in the […]
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies. Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that OpenAI under its current leadership has abandoned its nonprofit mission to
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies. Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that OpenAI under its current leadership has abandoned its nonprofit mission to
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OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax. According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson’s parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott, Nelson trusted ChatGPT as a tool to “safely” experiment with drugs after using the chatbot for years
“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says Read More »
A curious case in Georgia serves as a warning for many parts of the US hastily approving data center developments without first updating their water systems to better monitor for severe upticks in usage. On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons of water
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The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the beloved Pixar franchise. But if Pixar had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI kids’ toy instead. AI toys are seemingly everywhere, marketed online as friendly
Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI’s founding team, including Sam Altman, to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018, as the AI start-up’s leaders grappled over who should control the company and its direction. Musk, a co-founder of the AI group, proposed bringing Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to his carmaker, appointing
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This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their release. Previously, Donald Trump had stubbornly cast aside the Biden-era policy, dismissing the need for voluntary safety checks as overregulation blocking unbridled innovation. Soon
Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good Read More »
The Silicon Six avoided $278bn in US taxes over a decade. Here’s how Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Netflix & Microsoft did it — and why it keeps happening. The post Silicon Six: How Big Tech Avoided $278 Billion in Tax appeared first on 1redDrop.
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Greg Brockman never wanted to discuss his personal journal in public. But the OpenAI president has been stuck for days doing exactly that, while testifying in a trial in which Elon Musk has alleged that OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission to instead focus on personally enriching leaders like Brockman and Sam Altman. “It’s very painful,”
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