2026-02-11
“Now we have a special box of electricity that turns Reddit comments and old toaster manuals into cogent conversations about Shakespeare and molecular biology.” Great profile from Gideon Lewis-Kraus on state of LLMs 10 years after his (amazing) NYT article on Google Translate. [image]
New Yorker
A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system's mind—examining its neurons …
2024-03-23
Funny to see what Microsoft learned from the OpenAI saga last fall - easiest way to evade antitrust scrutiny on an acquisition the @FTC might have looked askance at is to just buy all the parts separately: https://techcrunch.com/...
Financial Times
Microsoft's deal with Inflection is a further sign that the emerging AI economy will probably be dominated by the US tech giants, as the AI talent war heats up
Microsoft's agreement with two founders of Inflection is the latest sign that deep-pocketed companies are scooping up much of the expertise in AI
Funny to see what Microsoft learned from the OpenAI saga last fall - easiest way to evade antitrust scrutiny on an acquisition the @FTC might have looked askance at is to just buy all the parts separately: https://techcrunch.com/...
Newcomer
As regulators constantly and unreasonably block acquisitions, Microsoft is pioneering the non-acquisition acquisition with its OpenAI and Inflection deals
2022-11-17
just, wow https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
CoinDesk
Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”
The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.
just, wow https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vox
A chat via DM with SBF on why regulators “make everything worse”, FTX and Alameda's “messy accounting”, why he regrets filing for bankruptcy, ethics, and more
The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.