4+ hour, 54+ 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…...

7+ hour, 49+ 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…...

9+ hour, 41+ 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....

13+ hour, 2+ 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,…...

15+ hour, 18+ min 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…...

16+ hour, 11+ min 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…...

16+ hour, 40+ min ago   (547+ words) As they were preparing to leave Nvidia, David Hoeller and Nikita Rudin anxiously hopped on a late-night call with their CEO. The two had spent years working on robotics at the chip giant, pushing the boundaries of simulation and helping…...

16+ hour, 43+ min ago   (682+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angel Crawford, who owns 18 rental properties in northeastern Louisiana and runs a third-party website connecting tenants with property owners. Construction for Meta's largest-ever AI data center has begun in Holly Ridge,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (323+ words) Sam Altman says now is not a good time. In a Fortune interview that aired on Saturday, OpenAI's CEO said that "given everything that's happening with safety," he doesn't expect to take his company public this year. "Right now would…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (257+ words) The leaders of US AI labs are having a come-together moment. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that he's "become convinced" AI needs to pace its development to avert disaster, other AI leaders quickly logged on to endorse…...