2025-12-17
Hire a 28 yo MIT dropout who has made $bns by gaming the system but has no actual tech skills to lead a sci-fi initiative spending money like water whilst pissing off your world leading researchers. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Financial Times
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating
A year of internal disorder, fluctuating priorities and colossal spending at Meta has rattled insiders and investors
2025-06-19
With great respect to @demishassabis, AGI isn't a sensible concept. There is a great deal more to intelligence than narrowly defined “cognitive tasks”. But in Silicon Valley it's a great way to get money from gullible investors and politicians. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Financial Times
A look at the tech industry's lack of consensus on what AGI or ASI is, whether LLMs are the best path, and what the tech might look like if or when it arrives
It has been tipped as the next big breakthrough out of Silicon Valley, but is it a scientific goal — or a marketing buzzword? Bluesky: @jjaron . X: @starcourse Bluesky: Jacob Aron ...
2025-06-03
'Responsible AI is vitally important. Investors need to focus on it - there are grave systemic risks looming. Also pay attention to the Unethical Optimization Principle. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Financial Times
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn
Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
2025-01-30
Real diversity in AI is vital & DeepSeek shows you don't need an enormous “war chest”. Despite the mythology around “superintelligence” it's not v important for most purposes if your model isn't quite at the bleeding edge. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Mistral AI, seen as Europe's great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions
Financial Times : X: @workmj and @starcourse . Forums: Slashdot X: Michael Jackson / @workmj : “One investor in Mistral is less bullish in private. ‘They are starting to see the w...
2024-08-21
Crowdstrike uses an unsafe language (C++ I believe) when safe ones (eg Rust) are available. It pushed updates without proper testing. And it wont compensate its customers. For the CEO to complain that competitors are taking its business is - remarkable! https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
After rivals' criticism, CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas says no vendor can “technically” guarantee their software won't cause an incident akin to July's
Botched update that hit millions of computers leads to claims of ‘ambulance chasing’ by competitors
2024-08-14
Important article in @ft from @kenzaBryan @CamillaHodgson & @JanaTauschinski on how Big Tech is quietly trying to reshape how pollution is reported https://www.ft.com/... [image]
Financial Times
How Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are using accounting techniques to hide their growing emissions, while working to influence pollution disclosure rules
Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions — By its own account, Amazon is a green business leader.
2023-11-13
“Those are channels into our one single product, which is intelligence, magic intelligence in the sky. I think that's what we're about.” The naivety & ideology of the Tech Bro. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Financial Times
Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs
Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
2023-10-26
@ProfHilaryAllen says that while the industry has often “weaponised technobabble” to claim it falls outside national regulation, this case is intended to show that there “actually is someone you can hold accountable”. 👏👏👏 https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Bloomberg
Sam Bankman Fried's lawyers say SBF plans to testify in his own trial when they start their case later this week, after damaging testimony from his inner circle
2023-10-25
@ProfHilaryAllen says that while the industry has often “weaponised technobabble” to claim it falls outside national regulation, this case is intended to show that there “actually is someone you can hold accountable”. 👏👏👏 https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Bloomberg
Bankruptcy hearing: FTX is considering proposals from three bidders to restart trading, without disclosing the names, and will make a decision by mid-December
Steven Church / Bloomberg :
@ProfHilaryAllen says that while the industry has often “weaponised technobabble” to claim it falls outside national regulation, this case is intended to show that there “actually is someone you can hold accountable”. 👏👏👏 https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
Financial Times