OpenAI won’t say what data it took to train its video generator Sora, so @kevinschaul and I tried to figure it out

There's excellent new reporting out today on OpenAI's sycophancy crisis: how early the risks were known, and the safety tools OpenAI wasn't using I wrote a short post, highlighting the new facts I learned and mixing in a few reflections

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but that sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that came with a tradeoff: less usage.

to compete w/OpenAI's Pulse, Meta is testing its own AI-powered morning brief. @NaomiNixWrites has the scoop

We have entered late-stage proteinism.

Nigam Arora returns to @SchwabNetwork to share insights on markets. He explains why $AMD's move isn’t bad for $NVDA, how Japan’s trade surge signals strength, and what disciplined investors should do with gold. Watch for what investors need to know.

SCOOP: After a cozy 2005 wedding in Cambridge, Larry Summers and Elisa New set off on their honeymoon. But the trip took them somewhere far off the usual newlywed map — the private island of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/jSGW2wuxu7

New Mexico this month became the first U.S. state to guarantee free childcare for children six weeks and older, which officials estimate will save families, on average, about $16,000 a year on full-time daycare bills.

Just so I'm clear - we're in a boom but on the verge of a cataclysmic bust, and the only thing that can save us from the bust is an all powerful intelligence that will eliminate most of the world's jobs and maybe most of the humans but also has a decent chance of creating

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The very most common reason people reach out to me is because they are a victim of sextortion. The below video is great and exactly what I recommend which boils down to: 1. Stop responding immediately. Block the attacker on any channels they are trying to reach you including

Trump welcomed to the White House today the Saudi crown prince who approved the dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw. When an ABC News reporter asked a question about the murder, Trump said ABC should have its license pulled.

Big respect to Karen Hao for correcting this error, and for her handling of the matter - as well as to Andy Masley for pointing it out (and enduring no small amount of blowback himself). Mistakes happen (I've found them in my own work) - correcting them is great. We should want

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This kind of response is why I hold Karen in such high esteem. For the amount of work she did to try to get it right in the first place and her consistent efforts to elevate the state of debate, like educating journalists around the world on AI

@AndyMasley Some key quotes: “Bloomberg News found that about two-thirds of new data centers built or in development since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.” — @Leonardonclt @dinabass & Michelle Ma 11/

@AndyMasley I also want to take this opportunity to highlight new data on the water footprint of AI that has come out since I published my book. Here is a fantastic piece (gift link) with lots of figures from journalists I deeply respect at Bloomberg. 10/ https://t.co/IMwDIrnmjG

I am working to address an apparent error for a data point I cited in my book about the water footprint of a proposed data center in Chile. I’d like to explain what happened, what I’m doing to remedy it, and provide more recent data on the water footprint of data centers. 1/

“Unrecognizable.” Marc Benioff’s Moral Collapse In the Era of Trump Fascism gift link to @washingtonpost story: https://t.co/QoZIzSE8OZ

Another very sharp close read of the Epstein-Summers messages by Harvard Crimson's @dhruvtkpatel @camsrivastava

everyone dunking on the headline but this is a fascinating article, every paragraph reads "Epstein then emailed a publicist (who in 2018 was fired for sexually harassing 5000 women) and arranged for a wealthy financier (who in 2021 was revealed to be a pedophile) and a curator at

Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his

Sources: During a recent private call, OpenAI's investors asked about external signs that ChatGPT's growth is slowing. CFO Sarah Friar said time spent was down since "content restrictions" were added in Q3, but that the trend is expected to "reverse"