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Read the letter an Anthropic AI safety leader used to announce his departure: ‘The world is in peril’
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (355+ words) I achieved everything I wanted here," Sharma wrote, citing projects like developing defenses to reduce the risks of AI-assisted bioterrorism and a final project on understanding the effects of AI on humanity. He also said it was time to move…...
Instagram is internally testing a new Snapchat rival app
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (352+ words) Hey Meta, are you also nostalgic for 2016? As social media users wax poetic and share throwbacks about the social media heyday of 2016, it seems Meta wants to revive a piece of it. Yes, that does sound like Snapchat's original premise....
OpenAI’s Sam Altman used to hate ads. Now he’s selling them.
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (228+ words) OpenAI's Sam Altman used to think ads were gross. Now he's rolling them out. OpenAI says it will serve ads to you based on the conversation you're currently having with ChatGPT, as well as previous queries and chats. It will…...
Elon Musk said we’d reach Mars in 2026. Now, he says SpaceX is building a city on the moon.
19+ hour, 21+ min ago (345+ words) Elon Musk's SpaceX just overhauled its to-do list. In an X post on Sunday, the CEO said that the company is shifting its focus from Mars to creating a "self-growing city" on the moon. "It is only possible to travel…...
Next-gen nuclear’s tipping point: Meta and hyperscalers start deals with Bill Gates’ TerraPower, Sam Altman-backed Oklo, and
2+ day, 38+ min ago (1760+ words) Chris Levesque spent a career in the nuclear industry as a Navy submarine operator and a commercial nuclear executive before he joined Bill Gates" startup TerraPower a decade ago, only to realize he "didn"t know what innovation was." "The…...
Moltbook, the Reddit for bots, alarms the tech world as agents start their own religion and plot to overthrow humans
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (949+ words) You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing. Moltbook is a…...
Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (540+ words) The rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic intensified this week. The two companies released dueling new AI models on Thursday and had back-to-back podcast appearances on "TBPN." On Thursday, Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, an upgraded model that the company says would…...
I’m a 25-year-old founder who loves robots but too many humanoids are militant and creepy-looking. Things need to change—jus
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (639+ words) I'm a founder who spends a lot of time around humanoid robots. And while today's innovation is cutting-edge, the majority of today's humanoids are militant, aggressively masculine, and plain creepy-looking." Just look at what Tesla announced this week with its…...
OpenAI’s pitch to nervous software companies: Work with us, not against us
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (448+ words) Are software companies going to need to adapt to AI in general? Yes, of course," Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, told reporters during a call ahead of Thursday's announcement. But I think the ones that do adapt to AI…...
AI agents are not moral agents
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (577+ words) Upon seeing such seemingly obvious signs of intelligence, it is only natural that some are calling that we recognize that these things have moral standing. Moltbook's creator, Matt Schlicht, declared on X that "a new species is emerging and it…...