Category: AI
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Starved for Power, Big Tech Looks to Orbit for AI’s Future
The race to dominate artificial intelligence has found a new, unlikely frontier: low Earth orbit. According to a detailed analysis by orbital dynamics expert and science communicator Scott Manley, what began as a niche concept by small startups has rapidly evolved into a strategic imperative for the world’s largest technology and aerospace companies. In a…
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Nobel Laureate Acemoglu: AI Hype Masks a Deep Crisis of Democracy
In a sweeping critique of the current technological and political landscape, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu has cautioned that the world is betting too heavily on the economic promises of artificial intelligence while neglecting the crumbling institutions of liberal democracy. Speaking on the Foreign Affairs Interview podcast with Deputy Editor Kanishk Tharoor, Acemoglu argued that…
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Anthropic Let Claude Run a Kiosk. It Got Scammed and Hallucinated ‘The Simpsons’
In an ambitious test of autonomous commerce, AI research company Anthropic recently concluded “Project Vend,” an internal experiment where its language model, Claude, was given full control over a small office business. The results, released by the company in a video documentary, ranged from impressive logistical coordination to bizarre hallucinations involving “The Simpsons” and inadvertent…
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Google’s Jeff Dean Unveils TPU v7 Details, Calls for New Era of Academic ‘Moonshots’
Speaking from the sidelines of the NeurIPS 2025 conference, Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean offered a detailed look into the company’s hardware trajectory while issuing a broad call for new “moonshot” funding models to sustain academic innovation. In an exclusive interview with Andy Konwinski for the Laude Institute, Dean discussed the capabilities of Google’s seventh-generation…
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DeepMind CEO: ‘Jagged’ AI Will Eventually Eclipse Industrial Revolution
In a wide-ranging interview released this week, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis laid out a vision for the future of artificial intelligence that extends far beyond chatbots, predicting that the convergence of “world models” and scientific discovery will define the next phase of the technology. Speaking with mathematician Professor Hannah Fry on the season finale…
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Microsoft AI Chief Reveals Strategic Shift to Build Independent ‘Superintelligence’
In the rapidly escalating race to develop artificial intelligence that surpasses human capability, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is advocating for a cautious, “humanist” approach while signaling a strategic shift that grants the tech giant more independence from its key partner, OpenAI. Speaking on The Mishal Husain Show for Bloomberg, Suleyman outlined his vision for…
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Anthropic CEO Warns Rivals Are ‘YOLOing’ the Race to Build Advanced AI
Dario Amodei, the CEO and co-founder of the artificial intelligence lab Anthropic, offered a stark assessment of the current AI frenzy on Tuesday, suggesting that some competitors are taking reckless financial and safety risks—or “YOLOing”—in the race to build advanced models. Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit in an interview with Andrew Ross…
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Sergey Brin at Stanford: Why Retirement Was a ‘Mistake’ in the Age of AI
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and the world’s eighth-richest person, returned to his alma mater this month to close out the Stanford School of Engineering’s centennial year. In a candid conversation that ranged from the whimsical origins of the search giant to the existential race for artificial intelligence, Brin offered a rare glimpse into…
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Beyond Chatbots: Physical AI Is Rewriting the Laws of Manufacturing
While the world remains fixated on generative chatbots and image creators, a more tangible revolution is taking place within the industrial heartland. In a detailed report released by Future in the Making, a media platform dedicated to manufacturing innovation, experts argue that Artificial Intelligence is moving beyond digital novelties to fundamentally alter the physics of the…
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Harari: AI-Driven ‘Exhaustion’ Threatens Foundation of Democracy
In a sweeping address regarding the fragile state of modern geopolitics and the rapid ascent of artificial intelligence, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari issued a stark warning: the fundamental biological rhythms of humanity are being overrun by non-organic agents, threatening the very basis of democratic society. Speaking at a sold-out event hosted by the…