Tech
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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…
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Exclusive: Jeremy Renner bets on the tech that could have saved his life faster: ‘There’s 150 people that are responsible for me not dying’
Jeremy Renner is sitting in his Lake Tahoe kitchen in a black baseball cap and a somehow even darker tee, somberly recounting the details of the now-famed incident that left him clinging to life. On New Year’s Day in 2023, Renner was nearly killed on his Nevada property when his 14,000-pound snowcat pinned him on…
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From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
For years, the resistance to artificial intelligence looked manageable. There were academics writing open letters, Hollywood writers striking over contract language, the think-tank reports warning of job displacement. Tech executives nodded, pledged responsibility, and kept building as fast as they could. Then someone threw a firebomb at Sam Altman’s house. On Friday, a 20-year-old man…
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The hidden menace behind Big Tech’s AI arms race: Meta, Amazon and others are spending billions on hardware that’s worthless in 3 years
There’s a wild paradox in the middle of the biggest story in tech right now. The GPUs and other essential hardware that the hyperscalers are spending so lavishly to pack into their data centers with, it turns out, go obsolete in a hurry. That’s the view detailed in an excellent new report from Research Affiliates,…
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Sam Altman’s attacker had a kill list of AI executives. Experts warn this is just the beginning
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was attacked twice in three days—first with a Molotov cocktail, then with gunfire—the first attack of which was motivated by hatred of artificial intelligence, according to authorities, and marks a sharp escalation in anti-AI sentiment. On Friday, a 20-year-old man who had reportedly publicized anti-AI thoughts on a…
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‘I don’t need help’: Meet some of the AI resisters who smell their own extinction
More American workers are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their jobs, but skepticism is still widespread. New Gallup polling finds that while more employees are using AI frequently in their work, there’s been an uptick in alarm that new technologies will replace their jobs. Many workers who are not using AI say they prefer to…