Billionaire Changpeng Zhao and leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges in a watershed moment designed to bring order to the often-lawless crypto …
Does Working With Robots Make Humans Slack Off?
Robots can perform surgery, shampoo someone’s hair, read a mammogram and, of course, drive a car. A chatbot could probably write my column, if I let it. Now that machines can do nearly everything …
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Playing The Long Game: Making AI Development More Transparent
The competitive nature of AI developments has incentivized companies to move quickly and shroud their efforts in secrecy as AI continues to get more advanced. While playing things close to the vest is …
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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could …
Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with ‘one of best possible outcomes’
After an eventful five days of back-and-forth that included the ouster of Sam Altman and a potential bid for the exec to join Microsoft, the OpenAI co-founder is back where he started. This tentative …
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The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
The deployment of AI-controlled drones that can make autonomous decisions about whether to kill human targets is moving closer to reality. Lethal autonomous weapons, that can select targets using AI, …
After closed door OpenAI drama, open source AI backed by Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, could emerge winner
Tech giants Salesforce, Qualcomm, Nvidia and high-profile investor Eric Schmidt are pouring investment into open source AI startups that could be winners as the recent OpenAI saga — although now …
Getting Started With Automation: Making Sure The First Step Is The Right One
The Ironman Triathlon was conceived in 1978 by a group of endurance athletes who wanted to settle a debate about which athletes were the fittest: swimmers, runners or cyclists. In the time since the …
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Sam Altman returns to OpenAI in a bizarre reversal of fortunes
Sam Altman has agreed to return to lead OpenAI, the company said in a Tuesday post on X, just days after his surprise ouster as chief executive sparked an employee revolt that threatened to undermine …
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The Chaos at OpenAI, Explained
If they had been the plot of a science fiction movie, or an episode of “Succession,” the events at OpenAI last weekend would have seemed a little over-the-top. A secret board coup! Fears of killer …