Hanson and I talked about the idea of adding real intelligence to these suggestive machines. Ben Goertzel, a well-known AI researcher and the CEO of… Read More »Don’t ask stupid robots if AI will destroy humanity
For years, private equity firms have tried to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the… Read More »Blackstone becomes the first $1 trillion private equity manager
Instead, that tagline says less about what the company does and more about why it does it. Helsing’s job postings are rife with idealism and… Read More »A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys | WIRED
China has an answer to the heat waves now affecting much of the Northern Hemisphere: to burn more coal to maintain a stable electricity supply… Read More »China’s addiction to coal is deepening in the heat
Few people up Earth has moved closer to the center than Buzz Speyrer, a drilling engineer with a long career in oil and gas. It’s… Read More »A huge untapped green energy source is hiding under your feet
According to three people familiar with the matter, Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce and pitch news stories to… Read More »Google is testing AI tool that can write news articles
When prebiotic soda brand Olipop joined Threads, it didn’t post about the flavors it comes in or the claimed nutritional benefits. “Can you please join… Read More »Threads is the new cool meeting place for brands
The numbers Goldman Sachs reported second-quarter earnings of $1.1 billion, down more than 60 percent from a year earlier. The bank highlighted write-downs in the… Read More »Goldman Sachs reports sharp profit drop, highlighting the bank’s problems
The volume required can be huge. In the U.S., chip factories use far less water than agriculture and power generation industries, and semiconductors have not… Read More »Do you want to win a Chip War? You need a lot of water
Typically, this money would primarily be funneled to so-called top manufacturers, which are attractive to the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Defense’s procurement arm,… Read More »The war in Ukraine shows that the US military-industrial complex is not ready for battle
Why it matters: Inflation is still stubbornly high. Overall inflation numbers have fallen, but policymakers are closely monitoring other measures of price pressures that indicate… Read More »UK inflation slows to 7.9 percent
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes to stay in power by selling himself as the repairman of a broken Britain. But with inflation still high, debt… Read More »While Sunak is making his case for the British, the economy is undermining it
The Hollywood actors’ union said Tuesday it had exempted 39 independent film and TV projects from the strike, including two films from A24, the secretive… Read More »Actor strike won’t stop 39 independent projects, says SAG-AFTRA
Angelo Mozilo, a founder of Countrywide Financial who presided over the credit giant’s meteoric rise and then its collapse during the 2008 financial crisis, died… Read More »Angelo Mozilo, whose mortgage giant fell after a failed housing project, dies at 84
Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced himself to a developer group… Read More »Meta threads can make or break the Fediverse
