AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
A Fintech Founder Shares the 5 Numbers That Reveal Whether Your Business Can Survive a Downturn
Learn the five metrics that matter most when growth slows and pressure rises. From retention and margins to CAC and payback periods, this guide explains how to measure whether your business can truly withstand a downturn.
7 AI Tools That Build a One-Person Business in a Weekend — No Staff. No Code. No Stress.
See seven AI tools in action, with practical workflows for research, email, app building and automation — and how to choose the ones your business actually needs.
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs,” a GovAI research scholar warns.
A Fintech Founder Shares the 5 Numbers That Reveal Whether Your Business Can Survive a Downturn
Learn the five metrics that matter most when growth slows and pressure rises. From retention and margins to CAC and payback periods, this guide explains how to measure whether your business can truly withstand a downturn.