Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more
Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more
Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”
Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”
A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. X: @recurrented , @mikeisaac , @franklinleonard , @stev...
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more
Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him? X: @stevenlevy , @shannonrwatts , and @spencerhakimian . Blues...
A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts
Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.
Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impu...
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it has reached AGI, “sufficient AGI” means $100B+ in profits, and Microsoft may not build AGI
Questions like “what biases are in the training data” and “can I keep my data out of the LLM” are critical to corporations and people! [embedded post] @breadbunny : openAi believer...
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.
Senate testimony: Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, “ignored warnings” on China potentially accessing US user data, and more
Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday …
Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more
The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic …
An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in “building mode”, AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more
Few brands in tech can say they've shaped the internet for three decades. Yahoo can. … Rob Wilk : Great story featuring Jim Lanzone and the progress we're making every day here at...
Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn't stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
Jim Sanborn, creator of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ, says he's frustrated with amateurs falsely claiming they cracked the 35-year unsolved code using AI
Jim Sanborn's inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they've cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.
Taara, a project under Alphabet's moonshot X lab, unveils a new silicon photonic chip that uses light to transmit high-speed data through the air
The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more
Steven Levy / Wired : Bluesky: @stevenlevy . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : In prepping for my Tim Cook interview I had some rare conversations w Apple sr...
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more
Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
How Satya Nadella put Microsoft back on top, including by cleaning up its toxic culture, embracing open source, and crafting the OpenAI deal, as it nears 50
When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top. Mastodon: ...
How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid
John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.