2025-06-20
Such disruption, very innovation, much AI [embedded post]
Financial Times
Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid challenging intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators
Autonomous ride-hailing service to make tentative debut in Austin, Texas, with only about 10 cars
2025-01-08
A helpful reminder that your ChatGPT conversations (1) have exactly zero presumption of privacy and (2) are easy targets for law enforcement. [embedded post]
Associated Press
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets
police release details on prompts used to decide crucial details Elizabeth Urban / International Business Times : Cybertruck Attack on Trump Hotel Was Planned Using ChatGPT in Dist...
2024-12-29
The 'ol “innovation runway disappeared faster than expected so let's buy some politicians to prop up what we've already built” play [embedded post]
Politico
OpenAI is tripling the size of its DC policy team to 12 and beefing up its lobbying as it tries to promote a sweeping plan for cheaper energy to data centers
Mohar Chatterjee / Politico :
2024-12-28
The 'ol “innovation runway disappeared faster than expected so let's buy some politicians to prop up what we've already built” play [embedded post]
Politico
OpenAI is tripling the size of its DC policy team to 12 and beefing up its lobbying as it tries to promote a sweeping plan for cheaper energy to data centers
The AI industry wants Trump's Washington to embrace it as a bulwark against China. OpenAI is trying to lead the pack.
2024-06-20
They are going to raise nine figures from FOMO investors who think that a spicy autocomplete trained on stolen and poisoned data can become omnipotent with just one more parameter, bro. [embedded post]
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
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.