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- AI Safety Commitments Need A Way To Measure Success
Both the 2023 and 2026 AI safety commitments share the challenge of stating goals only in broad terms without explaining how success should be measured.
- GM’s Mary Barra says ‘I’m done making predictions’—but sees fully autonomous driving in 2028
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
- I’m a humanitarian leader who’s all in on AI. Here’s why
Humanitarian groups should use AI—but only with evidence, oversight and strict safeguards.
- Blue Jays’ $25 Million Veteran Outfielder Sends Front Office Message
The Toronto Blue Jays’ former Gold Glover offered a clear message to Ross Atkins as he faces an uncertain future.
- When pre-IPO shares are too good to be true
With AI companies moving towards record-setting IPOs, with trillion-dollar valuations, the demand for pre-IPO shares is greater than ever—as is the opportunity for deceit.
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- A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth
This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I recently turned 40, and I don’t need reminding that both time and my chronological age only tick forward. But this game is focused on competitors’ biological ages—figures that are meant to provide a better way to measure…
- Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
- Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
A physical model show that iron dust and sulfuric acid create the right properties.
- SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
With Crew-13, Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a mission into space.
- Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.
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