The California law bans platforms from providing “addictive” features to users under 16, suggesting that concerning features include “infinite scroll” and autoplay.
Conservative podcaster Katie Miller has used her social media megaphone to denounce the AI chatbots ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. She hasn't told her followers about her large stake in a rival firm, xAI.
The company unveiled a new iPhone that costs $1,999. Here are the economics behind that price tag.
The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.
At the company’s annual September product event, Apple also demonstrated its work on artificial intelligence and other new devices.
Finance professionals have shed their post-2008 villain status in New York's social and dating scenes, and the people who know the city's nightlife best say Silicon Valley deserves the credit, for all the wrong reasons. A decade ago, a young banker in Manhattan hid his business cards at parties. The trading floor was social poison. […] The post Wall Street is cool again — and the tech industry's fall from grace made it happen appeared first on American Almanac .
Finance professionals have shed their post-2008 villain status in New York's social and dating scenes, and the people who know the city's nightlife best say Silicon Valley deserves the credit, for all the wrong reasons. A decade ago, a young banker in Manhattan hid his business cards at parties. The trading floor was social poison. Clubs turned suits away at the door. Soho House famously asked members not to bring Wall Street types to drinks. Venues like Don Hill's and Socialista were, in the words of one nightlife executive, "mostly forbidden" territory for anyone who smelled like a Bloomberg terminal. That era is over. The New York Post reports that finance workers are now welcomed, even courted, at the city's most exclusive clubs,…Open
AI leaders are sounding the alarm as their own breakthroughs sharpen an extraordinary dilemma: slow down and risk falling behind, or press ahead and risk losing control. Why it matters: AI executives and researchers increasingly see a race they can't safely slow on their own. Instead, they're urging governments, rivals and outside institutions to impose restraint across the field. - "The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes," OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote Sunday. Meanwhile, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said Tuesday he was leaving the company rather than contribute to what he sees as a race between OpenAI and Anthropic to build systems that will be difficult…
OpenAI announced today that it had solved the problem, one of seven “Millennium Problems” seen as among the most important in higher mathematics.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says this era is bringing the revenge of the "idea guy" — the once-annoying aspiring entrepreneur burbling about their brainstorm with no technical chops to pull it off. - Altman says it would be like saying: "I have a great idea for a song. I just need that guy with the guitar to make it for me." - "It really did strike me as ridiculous," Altman told me in Chapel Hill, N.C. "But now we're watching a whole generation of people iterate on ideas faster than they ever could. The economics have been reset for what it means to make a new small business or large business." Why it matters: Polls show most Americans think the risks of AI outweigh the benefits , with data-center rage as a bipartisan bonfire in the…
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