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OpenAI is a drama company. Will that hurt its IPO chances? And Anthropic tries to get ahead of the cyber risks its own models are accelerating
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…lots and lots of OpenAI news…Anthropic secures more compute from Google as its current capacity is strained…Google DeepMind releases its latest open weight Gemma model…Anthropic says AI has emotions (sort of)…and Google DeepMind shows AlphaEvolve can help solve real world enterprise problems. OpenAI dominated the news
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Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla agree: AI will break the economy. Their fix is no income tax for most Americans
When Vinod Khosla sat down with Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell in March and floated the idea of wiping out federal income taxes for the roughly 100 million-plus Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, it sounded like the kind of provocation only a billionaire with nothing left to prove could get away with. “I can’t
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Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’
The billionaire leader of NASA, who has gone to space twice, has a message for critics of billionaire space travel: You’re “outright wrong.” As the crew of Artemis II embarked on the first lunar mission in more than 50 years, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire payments processing company mogul confirmed to lead the agency
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Delta’s CEO says AI’s biggest opportunity in aviation isn’t inside the plane—it’s air traffic control
Delta CEO Ed Bastian doesn’t think AI will drastically change the flying experience, but it may improve it by tackling one of the biggest problems facing airlines. Air traffic control, Bastian noted, is ripe for innovation and could be the area where improved technologies like AI make a real difference for travelers—“an amazing deployment,” even
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Sam Altman’s big pitch to fix the big AI mess sounds like Jamie Dimon’s: a 4-day workweek and a big new tax on rich people like him
Sam Altman wants Washington to tax AI’s winners — and he’s put it in writing. On Monday, OpenAI released a 13-page paper entitled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” It offers a sweeping policy blueprint that proposes tax hikes on corporate income, among other revenue-boosting levers that shift the tax burden
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Sam Altman says AI superintelligence is so big that we need a ‘New Deal’—critics say OpenAI’s policy ideas are a cover for ‘regulatory nihilism’
OpenAI says the world needs to rethink everything from the tax system to the length of the work day in order to prepare for the wrenching changes of superintelligence technology—the point at which AI systems are capable of outperforming the smartest humans. On Monday, in a 13-page paper titled Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,
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Associated Press starts offering buyouts to newspaper journalists amid wider AI transformation
The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. The News Media Guild, the union
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‘No one’s raising their hand’: Japan’s labor crisis is making the case for robots taking the jobs that you don’t want
Japan is running out of workers. Its population declined for a 14th straight year in 2024, its working-age population is projected to shrink by nearly 15 million over the next two decades, and a 2024 Reuters/Nikkei survey found that labor shortages are the primary force pushing Japanese firms toward automation and AI adoption. Last month,
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Supermicro soared because of $4 trillion Nvidia—but Jensen Huang can walk away any time he wants
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got onstage at an event in his native Taiwan in 2024 to talk about the future of AI and supercomputers with Supermicro CEO and co-founder Charles Liang, the familiarity between the two was obvious. “When we’re together, sometimes we speak Taiwanese, sometimes we speak Mandarin, and then when we disagree,
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Artemis II’s toilet is on the blink again, forcing astronauts to use more backup collection bags as odor fills capsule
Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar far