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The Orb Will See You Now
Sam Altman's audacious startup wants to prove you're human. What else does it want?
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Demis Hassabis is Preparing for AI's Endgame
The Google DeepMind CEO on AGI timelines, his Nobel Prize, and why DeepMind's tech is being sold to the Israeli military
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Amazon’s Effort to Beat OpenAI’s ‘Stargate’ Project
Tech companies are cashing in their chips in the global AI infrastructure race
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Don't Look Up
Notes from the inaccurately-named 'AI Action Summit' in Paris
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The British Public Wants Tougher AI Rules
Exclusive: Poll shows 87% of Brits want to prevent new AI model releases until developers can prove they are safe
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Why AI Safety Researchers are Worried About DeepSeek
It could open the door to AIs developing their own incomprehensible languages, raising significant safety concerns
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Inside the UK's AI Safety Institute
It's the leading effort by any government to test AI systems for dangers. But its existence, for now at least, depends on the very companies it seeks to…
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Claude Learns to Lie
Exclusive: a new paper shows existing AIs can strategically deceive — and suggests future ones will be better at it
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Profile of a Chip Industry Titan
Lisa Su, the AMD chief exec, is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. Plus: OpenAI's 'reasoning' AI tries and fails to build a birdhouse
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The 100 Most Influential People in AI
Big Tech strikes back
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Trouble Inside DeepMind
Workers at Google DeepMind want their parent company to drop military contracts
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How to Stop AI Hallucinating
New research could help AI stay grounded in the facts
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Inside Anthropic
The AI company betting that safety can be a winning strategy
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How to Prepare for the AI Whistleblowers
In the absence of better laws, journalists can still make whistleblowing less painful
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