Tech
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Exclusive: Economists have been teaching a broken proof for 50 years. AI just found it
Scott Kominers has taught Robert Aumann’s 1976 theorem dozens of times. He’s assigned it in economics courses at Harvard. He’s built on it in his own research. So when Axiom Math’s formal verification system flagged a gap in the proof’s foundations earlier this year — an assumption Aumann stated but never actually proved — Kominers…
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How to save the internet—according to Sam Altman’s all-seeing Orb
Are you real? It’s a mind-boggling question and one that executives at Europe’s biggest companies are asking more frequently, as bots, phishers, and bad AI undermine their ability to understand what is true and what is not. In recent years, chief executives have become targets of elaborate deepfakes scams, while scrambling to regulate the growing…
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Data centers could help determine who wins the next war, and a shortage of compute would be ‘catastrophic,’ retired general says
Americans are revolting against AI data centers and the power plants that feed them, but they are critical to national security, according to retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, who is now dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. In a Washington Post op-ed on Thursday, he argued that data infrastructure will be…
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CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’
Late last week, Wix joined a flurry of tech companies that have been citing AI as a motivation for layoffs, and one expert says this pattern reveals a trend companies have been reluctant to admit for years. Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of the Israel-based website-building company, said in a post on X that Wix would…
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Forget the STEM safety net. Peter Thiel warns AI is a bigger threat to technical roles than to creative thinkers
During the 2010s, coding took the spotlight as one of the most desired skills in the job market. The coding craze spread quickly, with parents badgering their kids to drop the English major and opt for a STEM degree. Even former President Barack Obama urged people to learn to code; Obama also became the first…
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AI will make the ‘tech bro’ class even richer, Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says, just as it can take your job
Tech bros are seemingly everywhere. They’re Hollywood’s newest favorite villain. They pushed back and potentially won this week when President Donald Trump indefinitely postponed an Executive Order on AI. Yes, the broligarchy have been quickly amassing money and power for a while now, but as professor Joseph Stiglitz sees it, the tech at the heart…
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Special operations commander says while AI could determine targets, humans must be sure ‘it’s going to deliver violence only where we intend it’
The Trump administration is pushing to unleash the power of artificial intelligence for the U.S. military while facing calls to put up guardrails around the rapidly developing technology from some companies — and even notes of caution from top leaders in uniform. Adm. Frank Bradley, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, told attendees of a…
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SoftBank plans up to €75 billion investment in French AI centers
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure. The first phase comprises an initial €45 billion investment to deliver 3.1 gigawatts of AI data…
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After Blue Origin rocket explosion, NASA’s entire moon exploration program depends on SpaceX for now as Musk eyes blockbuster IPO soon
With a record-setting IPO in just a few weeks, SpaceX saw its rival in a contest to put astronauts on the lunar surface go up in flames, reinforcing its dominance in the space race and its primacy in NASA’s plans to go back to the moon. On Thursday, a New Glenn rocket belonging to Jeff…
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Snowflake CEO says monster quarter shows why software firms need new pricing models to thrive in AI age
Sridhar Ramaswamy sees the major software players beginning to sort the AI winners from the losers. As of now, Snowflake, the cloud storage company where Ramaswamy is chief executive, is on the upside. Ramaswamy just delivered a blowout first quarter for Snowflake, which this week reported a beat across the board. The results helped vault…