Tom Simonite
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Tech companies editor @washingtonpost // [email protected] // DM for Signal
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RT @faizsays: New: Tesla said it didn't have critical data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. "For any reasonable person, it was obv….
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RT @SilvermanJacob: "Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders,….
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An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly...
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RT @car0linehaskins: New: If Customs and Border Protection takes your phone at an airport/border, they can run it through tech that analyze….
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RT @car0linehaskins: So this week, Palantir told me I was banned from its booth at a tech conference (didn’t give a reason) & threatened to….
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Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
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RT @nitashatiku: my story on AI chatbots optimizing for engagement was on the cover of Sunday’s @washingtonpost !!!
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Chatbots tuned to keep people talking will hack human attention much more powerfully than social media algorithms
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OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.
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RT @_KarenHao: In 2019 I was the first journalist to embed within OpenAI to profile them. Afterwards they refused to speak to me for 3 year….
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In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched writing a story about a then little-known company, OpenAI. This is what happened next.
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RT @_KarenHao: In a preview of EMPIRE OF AI for @TheAtlantic, I share new behind-the-scenes details on what happened when OpenAI’s board fi….
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The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI
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2023 Sam Altman: Tells Congress a new agency should be created to require licenses for powerful AI models. 2025 Sam Altman: Tells Congress requiring licenses for powerful AI models would be "disastrous".
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RT @JStein_WaPo: Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for….
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RT @jacobbogage: 🚨 WaPo Exclusive 🚨. The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sour….
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RT @JStein_WaPo: Scoop: Senior aides across Trump admin holding high-level meetings over China curbs on rare earths critical to huge range….
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Tesla's fleet in testing consists of Model Y vehicles -- the $30,000 Cybercab unveiled last year appears to still be years away.
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A sobering quarterly report puts more prssure on Tesla’s chief executive to make good on his promises for fully autonomous vehicles.
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Musk has long said Tesla's future will be defined by robotaxis and doubled down on that claim after the company disclosed a 71 percent drop in profits this week
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Tesla announced quarterly earnings down 71 percent from a year earlier, amid tariff threats and protests over CEO Elon Musk’s role in pushing government cuts.
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A snapshot of how far behind Tesla is on robotaxis:. Tesla says its fleet *supervised by safety drivers* has driven 15,000 miles. Waymo data from December said its fleet had carried passengers 50 million miles without anyone in the driving seat.
FSD Supervised ride-hailing service is live for an early set of employees in Austin & San Francisco Bay Area. We've completed over 1.5k trips & 15k miles of driving. This service helps us develop & validate FSD networks, the mobile app, vehicle allocation, mission control &
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RT @_KarenHao: Some news years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at It tells….
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RT @willknight: If you care about AI then you need to know about the probabilistic computer chip being developed by @GillVerd (aka @BasedBe….
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Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.
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