1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (96+ words) What’s one underrated big idea? What’s a technology you think is overhyped? What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t? Assuming intellectual and moral leadership in what is turning out to be among the most important debates…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) New architectural improvements could change how frontier AI models think, with lasting consequences for the security of digital infrastructure. Last night, The Information reported that OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model uses a technique called “recurrent depth.” The story immediately generated some…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (305+ words) When Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in June, the case captured headlines in major newspapers across the country. That wasn’t surprising. Regarding harms, the complaint alleges numerous ones, including “cognitive decline or atrophy…...

2+ week, 5+ min ago   (352+ words) The storm clouds hovering above public and private universities in the United States are neither divine judgement nor a day of reckoning. Rather, they signal a wave of uncharted policies and practices institutions must learn to navigate or risk being…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (549+ words) Here’s a lesson from technological history: Cats escape bags, genies vacate bottles, and monkeys get driven to airports. Yet we typically learn to live with these new realities—minimizing the downside to some acceptable level—because either reversal is impossible…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (374+ words) A reasonable assumption: if artificial intelligence delivers the productivity gains implied by today’s massive AI infrastructure spending, investment will continue and lots more data centers will get built. A second reasonable assumption: ongoing pushback will raise costs and extend timelines....