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Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao

In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new book, Imperiul IA: Vise și coșmaruri în OpenAI-ul lui Sam Altman.

She talked with executive editor Niall Firth about how she first covered the company in 2020 while on staff at MIT Technology Review. They discussed how the AI industry now functions like an empire and went on to examine what ethically-made AI looks like.

Read the transcript of the conversation, which has been lightly edited and condensed. And, if you’re already a subscriber, you can watch the on-demand recording of the event here. 

MIT Technology Review Narrated: How did life begin?

How life begins is one of the biggest and hardest questions in science. All we know is that something happened on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, and it may well have occurred on many other worlds in the universe as well. Could AI help us to unpick the mysteries around the origins of life and detect signs of it on other worlds?

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1 xAI’s Grok went on an anti-Semitic rant 
Days after Elon Musk said new updates would lessen its reliance on mainstream media. (WP $)
+ The chatbot started to call itself ‘MechaHitler.’ (WSJ $)
+ What Grok’s neo-Nazi turn tells us about xAI. (Atlanticul $)

2 Musk loyalists are fighting to keep DOGE running
As officials seek to diminish the department’s role. (WSJ $)
+ Preluarea controlului tehnologic de către DOGE amenință siguranța și stabilitatea datelor noastre critice. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)

3 An imposter used AI to successfully impersonate Marco Rubio
They were able to send voice and text messages to fellow politicians. (WP $)
+ It’s not the first time Rubio has been targeted like this. (FT $)

4 Terrorist groups are using AI to recruit and plan
Counter-terror agencies are struggling to keep up. (Gardianul)

5 How the crypto faithful won over the President
The industry’s successful Trump courtship sparked a lobbying bonanza. (NYT $)

6 Wanted: 115,000 Nvidia chips for China’s data centers
But the US doesn’t seem to know how many restricted chips are already in the country. (Bloomberg $)

7 For startups, protecting companies from AI threats isn’t big business
Smaller firms are only making modest gains—for now. (Informațiile $)
+ Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)

8 Inside Zimbabwe’s dangerous EV lithium mines
Many residents worry that China is exploiting them. (Restul lumii)
+ How one mine could unlock billions in EV subsidies. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)

9 ‘The Milk Guy’ is delivering raw dairy around NYC
Mmm, delicious listeria, salmonella, and E. coli. (Revista NY $)
+ RFK Jr barred Democrats from being vaccine advisors. (Ars Technica)
+ The Department of Health and Human Services is searching for two new vaccines against deadly viruses. (Neîntunecat)

10 Take a look at these beautiful star clusters
Courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. (Ars Technica)
+ See the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (Revista Tehnologiei MIT)

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“People are going to die.”

—Clement Nkubizi, the country director for the nonprofit Action Against Hunger in South Sudan, tells Cu fir that their food stock is running critically low in the wake of USAID cuts.

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The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech

Despite President Biden’s assurances that the US is not seeking a new cold war, one is brewing between the world’s autocracies and democracies—and technology is fueling it.

Authoritarian states are following China’s lead and are trending toward more digital rights abuses by increasing the mass digital surveillance of citizens, censorship, and controls on individual expression.

And while democracies also use massive amounts of surveillance technology, it’s the tech trade relationships between authoritarian countries that’s enabling the rise of digitally enabled social control. Citește povestea completă.