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P.&G.’s Chief on Whether Brand Loyalty Is Enough When Prices Keep Climbing

Procter & Gamble’s new boss, Shailesh Jejurikar, talks about how the company is thinking about higher costs, what gets passed on to consumers and how A.I. helps it compete.

How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

How Microsoft's Pam Maynard Drives Inclusive AI Strategy

Drawing on Microsoft’s journey, Pam Maynard explains how leaders can shift mindsets, design ethical guardrails and empower every worker with AI

Claude Chatbot User Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Anthropic Over Biometric Scans

A Claude user filed a class-action lawsuit Sept. 29 against its parent company, Anthropic, alleging the chatbot violated Illinois privacy law through its biometric data requirements.

Sam Altman feels it necessary to clarify that people shouldn’t see AI as godlike for some reason.

I’m not sure what prompted this post on X from the OpenAI CEO, but it’s hard not to see it as mildly concerning, especially since we’ve already seen AI is perfectly capable of building its own cult.

Scott Bessent compares AI CEOs who warn of catastrophe to Hannibal Lecter: 'Stop me before I kill again'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Silicon Valley doesn't need the government to intervene.

OpenAI leader who quit says he can do more for safety from outside the company

David Robinson said he hired a PR firm, Spitfire Strategies, after resigning from Open AI.

Amazon Responds to Data Center Backlash, Says It No Longer Uses NDAs

The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.

One of the authors of the Stochastic Parrots paper explains what it actually means.

It’s been a dizzying few weeks of “is AI reasoning and / or alive” discourse, with the attendant pushback that these systems are just fancy autocomplete. But back in March, Margaret Mitchell, one of the authors of the famous Stochastic Parrots paper, took to Medium to clarify something: AI, as a whole, is not a stochastic parrot — LLMs are. Critics are missing a fundamental difference between the two technologies, even though they’re related. The post has been going back around, and it’s worth a read.

Someone should tell Elon about these really cool technologies called radar and lidar.

Musk has famously insisted that cameras are enough for his self-driving cars, when everyone else is pairing them with more advanced sensors. Now He’s explicitly said that his Robotaxis can’t run at night because it’s dark — a problem lidar and radar could easily solve.

Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

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OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"

In recent days spirituality has become a key part of the AI safety debate.