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My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its parent, embryonic programmers form…

“It’s a PR campaign, obviously,” claims Joshua Naftalis, a former prosecutor, now a partner at law firm Pallas Partners. “It’s a no stone left unturned strategy.”To date, Bankman-Fried has not filed a formal pardon application, a White…

It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of…

Jamie would meticulously schedule his days around finding time alone to watch porn and masturbate—often up to five times a day.The 32-year-old Michigan engineer, who did not want to use his real name due to privacy concerns, first watched…

The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn.As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are ramping up innovation around the technology that connects…

In the opening scenes of the Amazon Prime series House of David season 2, shortly after the titular David slays Goliath with a stone to the forehead, battle rages around the biblical figure.A dusty visual overlay partially obscures crowds…

Despite the never-ending drama over whether to ban the app, President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff regime, and executive shake-ups, TikTok’s ecommerce division is still seeing massive growth.TikTok doesn’t disclose aggregate sales…

OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at…

A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against continued improvements in model efficiency, the…

A four-legged robot that keeps crawling even after all four of its legs have been hacked off with a chainsaw is the stuff of nightmares for most people.For Deepak Pathak, cofounder and CEO of the startup Skild AI, the dystopian feat of…