Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who is its co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in July 2021
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
In a letter on October 27, OpenAI asked the Trump administration to expand a 35% Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of AI infrastructure
OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to revamp a Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure …
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more
AGI is still a decade away (via) Extremely high signal 2 hour 25 minute (! … X: Ashpreet Bedi / @ashpreetbedi : This is exactly why we recommend keeping it simple and focusing on c...
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience”
This seems so random and sounds mostly like a way to reward a donor/supporter given all the cuts to US government IT staff. … Forums: r/technology : First interview: Joe Gebbia, Am...
On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life.
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more
Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence X: Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : Ashlee Vance with the scoop on where @ilyasut has been this whole time: working on a new sta...
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, a US startup “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”
Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scient...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
Finding common language with China will be difficult, European Commission official says — One of the many signs in Davos …
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs
#riscv Mikael Strandlund : Meta's Engineering and Infrastructure teams are excited to host AI Infra @Scale, a one-day virtual event featuring a range of speakers from Meta … Roman ...
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component
The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
Analysis: why the Biden administration's sweeping export controls on China's chip sector happened now and how they could usher in a new global economic paradigm
In the week+ since the US government issued its sweeping set … John Naughton / Memex 1.1 : Tuesday 18 October, 2022 — In my favourite Provencal village. And I didn't use a drone...