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Fidji Simo says she believes AI can 'cure all diseases,' agreeing with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Fidji Simo, an ex-OpenAI executive and cofounder of ChronicleBio, said AI needs the right data infrastructure to be able to cure all diseases.

AI Automation Startup Relay Shuts Down, Staff Joins Google's Chrome Team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

Anthropic's revenue run rate reportedly surpasses $65 billion pre-IPO

The figure was hit at the end of July, per Bloomberg, and implies a sevenfold increase from where it was at the end of last year.

Our AI Costs Jumped 230 Percent. I’m Not Setting Token Budgets—Yet.

What a surge in daily credit usage taught me about managing operations on the frontier

Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

The tech giant plans to use the data to improve its AI models.

What Flock’s defenders are missing

As cities reconsider the technology, it’s worth asking how the company’s design choices have shaped the trade-off between solving crimes and protecting civil liberties.

Bloomberg: Andreesen Horowitz is the focus of an antitrust investigation.

According to Bloomberg, a “nearly year-old investigation” is looking into the possibility that a16z “investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies.” Co-founder Ben Horowitz is on the board of Databricks, while partner Martin Casado was on the board of dbt labs before it was acquired by Fivetran, where he now holds a seat.

These french fries told me I made a really good point.

AI terminology has broken containment so thoroughly that there’s actually something called “Fries GPT” on the menu at Dave & Buster’s, I regret to inform us. GPT stands for garlic, parmesan, and truffle dust in this case, which is a lot going on, flavor-wise. Personally, I think D&B should have committed to the bit and let you wash them down with an ice-cold LLMonade, but alas.

I built an AI C-suite to help me run my small business. As a creative, I was hesitant to use AI, but it's helpful for certain things.

Build a calm, realistic plan to recover from job loss and move toward your next role.

Hidden Airtag Reveals Amazon is Trashing Rare Books to Train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

OpenAI president says companies should do 10 things ASAP to defend against AI cyber threats

"Time is of the essence," OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman said while sounding the alarm that companies need to upgrade their cybersecurity efforts.

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.