Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.
Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more cautious ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder
Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe? — ∙ Paid — On January 5th, famed AI researcher Jerry Tworek stunned world+dog …
Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others
Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others
Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line
Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses. — I can't think of any other deal …
Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, who was OpenAI's interim CEO in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired, launches Softmax, a startup focused on AI alignment
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : Bluesky: @jeffabbott , @virmalised.us , and @edzitron.com X: @eshear , @eshear , and @ashleevance Bluesky: Jeff Abbott / @jeffabbott : “our AI systems are out of alignmen...
How Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, aka HudZah, a 20-year-old math student and an “AI native” in San Francisco, is building a nuclear fusor under Claude's tutelage
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : X: @tszzl and @kevin2kelly . Forums: Hacker News X: Roon / @tszzl : we're living in a Culture novel Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : This short report by @ashleevance of curr...