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John HerrmanDaily Intelligencer |
In recent months, AI models have become much better at writing, debugging, and testing code. This has scrambled the AI race, making the...
Last month, OpenAI shut down Sora, its attempt at a social-media app, as part of a pivot away from a “do everything all at once” strategy that the...
On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...
In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...
There are enormous gaps in the information available about the war with Iran. In the country at the center of the conflict, tight media and internet...
An iron law of running a large internet service is that your users will figure out how to use it to share, consume, or make porn. Explicit adult...
People in AI love talking timelines. Usually, they’re referring to the future: the number of months or years until models are able to do x or y; the...
Microsoft, like most large software companies, has been pushing its customers to use — and pay for — AI features over the last few years,...
On prediction markets, there are many ways you can make or lose money on America’s foreign wars. There’s been plenty of demand lately. Before the...
As the United States and Israel continue to bombard Iranian targets in and outside of the country, crippling its leadership, destroying military...
In September of last year, a “middle-aged programming nerd” and “early adopter of AI coding” wrote a viral blog post asking, amid waves of...
On February 23, Anthropic published a broadside to confront a threat that requires “rapid, coordinated action among industry players, policymakers,...
After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier to...
Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into...
There are two main reasons prediction markets have blown up in the past couple of years. One is that they offer a large group of people something they...