AI’s Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and…
Doom vs Boom: The Battle to Enshrine AI’s Future Into California Law
A California bill that attempts to regulate large frontier AI models is creating a dramatic standoff over the future of AI. For years, AI has been divided into “accel” and…
Melinda Gates Set to Resign From the Gates Foundation
Melinda French Gates is the founder of Pivotal Ventures.Image: Getty Images Europe (Getty Images) American philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation,…
It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week,…
AI This Week: Time to Replace Your CEO with AI
Headlines This Week Some of the biggest names in tech met with Chuck Schumer in Washington D.C. this week for a close-door summit designed to inform future AI policy. The…
“He Has His Apocalyptic Moods” Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian ambitions. Or for Neuralink, a…
The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
The U.S. federal government is still swimming in circles trying to form some sort of plan to regulate the exploding AI industry. So when the usual suspects of big tech…
Creator of ElonJet Moves His Musk Flight-Tracking Account to Threads
Jack Sweeney, the college student behind the Twitter account @ElonJet, has moved his platform to Threads after he was banned last year. Elon Musk banned Sweeney’s account from tracking his…
Bill Gates Office Accused of Asking Women Candidates About Porn Habits During Job Screening
Women job candidates were allegedly asked sexually explicit and personal questions while interviewing for a position at Bill Gates’s private investment office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The…
Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their 27-year marriage
Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Twitter in identical statements Monday that they are ending their 27-year marriage. They said they would continue their involvement in the Bill & Melinda…