Daring Fireball Oct 16, 5:01 PM

Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer

From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound truth to Pascal’s saying that every human...

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Daring Fireball Oct 14, 8:58 PM

The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room

The Department of Justice, yesterday: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or ...

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Daring Fireball Oct 8, 10:52 PM

Let’s Check In on Trump’s Blog

An actual post from the sitting president of the United States: The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to...

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Daring Fireball Oct 6, 6:17 PM

Unofficial Command-Line Tool Removes Apple Intelligence From MacOS 27

Scharon Harding, Ars Technica: Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t have a toggle for turning off Apple Intelligence. That ma...

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Daring Fireball Oct 5, 10:59 PM

OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans

OpenAI, today: The EU AI Act requires generative AI providers to make generated text identifiable in a machine-readable way. Text watermarking and detection ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 30, 7:23 PM

Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

Echo Wang, reporting for Reuters yesterday: Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than ​industrializati...

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Daring Fireball Sep 28, 10:41 PM

Jeremy Stern’s Profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus

Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 27, 8:22 PM

Mux: Turn Your Video Into Context

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring last week at DF. Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots — hosted AI workflows ...

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