AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’
Summer Yue may work on safety and alignment on Meta’s superintelligence team, but even she admits she isn’t immune to overconfidence when it comes to autonomous AI agents. “I had to…
The Nobel laureate who cowrote ‘Why Nations Fail’ warns U.S. democracy won’t survive unless these two things change
Most critics of President Donald Trump view him as the ultimate threat to American democracy. But to Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu, Trump is merely a fever, the result of…
Crypto VC Framework Ventures to take $45 million stake in Better.com as mortgage issuer plans to launch ’Home Token’
A crypto investor is helping a publicly traded mortgage issuer dive into DeFi, or decentralized finance. Better.com announced on Monday that Framework Ventures has struck a deal to buy 10%…
Below zero: Fed governor wouldn’t be surprised at negative job growth number
When the Fed reduces its rate, over time it can lead to cheaper borrowing for mortgages, auto loans, and business loans, though those rates are also influenced by financial markets.The…
Inside India’s AI Impact Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, and a no-show from Bill Gates
Yoshua Bengio, like many participants at India’s AI Impact Summit, was running late. By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep-learning pioneer, known as one of…
Your Google search history can be used against you in court. Does that violate the Constitution?
Unlike traditional search warrants that target a known suspect or location, keyword warrants work backward by identifying internet addresses where searches were made in a certain window of time for…
Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich
Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, billionaire tech leaders are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped create.Since then, the trend of Silicon Valley billionaires keeping their…
Supreme Court will hear Big Oil’s attempt to block lawsuits seeking to hold it liable for climate change
The case out of Boulder County will likely have implications for those other lawsuits.“The use of state law to address global climate change represents a serious threat to one of…
OpenAI changed its mission statement 6 times in 9 years. It finally removed the word “safely” as a core value when it restructured into a for-profit
When ChatGPT maker OpenAI restructured into a for-profit company, it removed all safety language from its mission statement. With investors now on the board who directly receive a share of…
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, partners with VC giant Granite Asia to counter the region’s lack of capital
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, and Granite Asia, an Asia-focused investment fund, are launching a new “first-of-its-kind” partnership to support new startups, underpinned by a new $110 million AI-focused IPO…
