Manhattan Project

A look at The Stargate Project: unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B cash, many projects are old news, and Elon Musk trolled the announcement

$500B in CapEx for AI in the US feels like a good thing for US security and for AI's continued progress in capabilities. Google's entire capex in 2024 was $50B. This is a hard amount of money to actua...

A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems

A look at Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy, which has spent ~$500M on student scholarships and more at Stanford and other universities to fight rogue AI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Mastodon: Baldur Bjarnason / @baldur@toot.cafe : “How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse: A billionaire-backed movement is recruiting c...