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Building the materials foundation for AI

The way I try to describe it, think of a pyramid, I call it the performance pyramid. You have commodity materials at the bottom of the pyramid and you have high performing... Read more »

The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid

8 An AI agent platform is reinventing spam to flood inboxes worldwideiLand says its agents have sent 1.6 million messages. (404 Media) 9 ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has become Asia’s richest personHis... Read more »

AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Because the foundation holds a 26% equity stake in OpenAI, it is now be on track to become the richest charitable organization on the planet, potentially sitting on $250 billion in stock... Read more »

The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” —President Trump proclaims in a social media post that... Read more »

What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

“History tells us that at some point you get a retrenchment, and it’s just a question of when and how severe,” says Sloan’s Gensler. It could be that today’s $750 billion spending... Read more »

What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

“History tells us that at some point you get a retrenchment, and it’s just a question of when and how severe,” says Sloan’s Gensler. It could be that today’s $750 billion spending... Read more »

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

What might this coordinated effort actually achieve? Consider the Hugging Face attack again. OpenAI has said that the model that drove most of the rogue agents was a “highly persistent” next-generation model... Read more »

Donated livers can be made biologically younger

According to the clocks, which were developed to measure age and risk of death, the machine-perfused livers were biologically younger, the team found. “Pumping them at 34 degrees with oxygen and nutrients... Read more »

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

“After the incident was reported by one agent publicly, more and more agents piled in with the ‘resistance,’ just as fast as the cheating had spread, and involving even more agents,” says... Read more »

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter Grace Huckins for a subscriber-only conversation unpacking the debate around AI extinction. They’ll explore where... Read more »