3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (997+ words) Caiman Moreno-Earle, a math major at Caltech, was wary after watching AI companies rapidly solve mathematical theorems that had stumped his professors for years. "It got kind of demoralizing," he told Business Insider. So the 19-year-old sophomore decided to bring…...

6+ hour, 20+ min ago   (467+ words) In the face of a grim debate about an AI-fueled apocalypse, both President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are locked in on keeping up the pace of AI progress, not slowing it down. Trump downplayed concerns about AI…...

15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1027+ words) It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon's warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders…...

17+ hour, 55+ min ago   (401+ words) Everything's fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir. In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction, a concern that numerous engineers and leaders from frontier…...

19+ hour, 48+ min ago   (319+ words) Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO, according to a person familiar with their plans. The company, which has been targeting an October listing, has given Nasdaq another big win, according to a person familiar with the matter....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (907+ words) Irvin Thevaranjan was blindsided by his layoff. The day before, the head of governance risk and controls at delivery service Grubhub had a stellar performance review with his boss, who told him that he had lots of opportunities in front…...

23+ hour, 8+ min ago   (358+ words) What do you do if you feel like you're helping build something that could contribute to the end of humanity? This is the existential question confronting the AI industry, a debate that only intensified after Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (710+ words) Russ Read-Barrow has been living with incurable stage four colon cancer for five years. The 43-year-old former PR director and father of two from the UK was diagnosed with the disease in 2021. After seeing blood in his poop around six…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (582+ words) On Tuesday, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar headlined a packed Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco. One thing she said really stood out to me: The company's biggest models can now train other smaller models, helping OpenAI save on the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (662+ words) Trips to the store used to offer a break from the digital screens that dominate modern life. Those days are winding down. Retailers are now trying to bring more advertising into stores by selling brands access to screens in aisles,…...