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Exclusive: The doctors and education experts who studied AI’s impact on the young call for a 5-year moratorium in schools
The researchers, doctors, and child development experts have studied what generative AI does to developing brains. Their conclusion: it shouldn’t be anywhere near a classroom, and action needs to happen fast. “We just don’t want to waste another 10 years in which our kids’ education is undermined,” Leonie Haimson, executive director of the Parent Coalition
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Pause AI and Stop AI: Meet the anti-AI groups facing questions after the attack on Sam Altman
The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home last Friday, allegedlycarried out by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama, has drawn attention to two anti-AI groups with similar names: Pause AI and Stop AI. Both have condemned the violence and said the suspect is not and was never a member of their organizations. Still, the
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From wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained
Many companies, from Walmart to United Airlines, have been heavily touting their use of artificial intelligence to get some more love from Wall Street during this AI boom—and some have successfully boosted their stock’s value. Now Allbirds has joined the fray: The shoe company announced on Wednesday it would reinvent itself as an AI computing
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Starbucks wants you to ask ChatGPT about what coffee to get, right as America boils over with AI backlash vibes
Starbucks has a solution for unsure coffee lovers who face a truly dizzying amount of choice: Just let software make a selection for you. The Seattle-based chain is testing a beta app in ChatGPT that helps users discover drinks based on vibes and gut feelings alone, the company announced Wednesday, marking another step in corporate
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Allbirds ditches sneaker business to pivot to AI compute, stock surges over 700%
Two weeks ago, Allbirds was a cautionary tale. The maker of the wool sneakers seemingly glued to the feet of every Patagonia-vested VC in 2019, once worth $4 billion, had a humiliating fire sale on April Fools’ Day and sold itself to a brand management company for $39 million—roughly 1% of its peak valuation. It
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The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon and the winner will not just dominate the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the three richest men in the world, are engaged in a stratospheric showdown to dominate space, and the outcome could decide the future of moon travel and even AI infrastructure. In light of the Artemis II’s successful mission earlier this month, which saw astronauts fly by the moon
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a16z’s Ben Horowitz sees ‘AI anxiety’ consuming Silicon Valley founders. Workers’ fear of something else is killing adoption
There are two distinct AI anxieties spreading through the American economy right now, and they don’t speak the same language. On one side: founders and investors grappling with the vertigo of an era where execution timelines have collapsed almost overnight. On the other: rank-and-file workers who aren’t afraid they’re moving too slowly — they’re afraid
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News outlets like NYT and USA Today are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI training models from using their content
What some consider to be the digital library of Alexandria is in danger of losing valuable scrolls. Major media outlets are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from saving web pages to prevent AI giants from training models on snapshots of old articles. Wired reported that 23 news organizations, including USA Today and the New
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Meet the millennial and Gen Z ‘attention activists’ who are trying desperately to unplug from their phones
More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation — anything but staring at screens. A similar scene played out a few miles away, in an early 20th-century cardboard box factory turned high-end office space. Nearly
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Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Artemis, a new cybersecurity startup trying to help defenders fight AI-powered attacks with AI, emerged from stealth today, securing $70 million in venture capital funding. Felicis led the Series A with returning investors First Round Capital and Brightmind. The round was also joined by Theory VC and prominent cybersecurity industry leaders, including founders of Demisto