
Will Knight
@willknight
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member of the techno-editorial staff at WIRED. signal = wak.01 (no pr pitches pls). newsletter = https://t.co/dWBxYeG6F1
Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2007
In case you missed it, here is the latest @kyliebytes scoop, about Anthropic pursuing Middle East gulf state money.
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“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” wrote Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a note to staff obtained by...
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OpenAI is fundraising yet again. Awesome scoop from @LaurenGoode -
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OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.
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New on @WIRED: A novel type of distributed mixture-of-experts model from Ai2 (called FlexOlmo) allows data can be contributed to a frontier model confidentially, and even revoked after the model is built: .
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A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
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Does anyone know if the @arxiv API is down? There seems to be a significant lag in papers being shown.
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Mark Zuckerberg is offering some researchers $300 million over four years, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers. Wild new scoop from @ZoeSchiffer.
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The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
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Doesn't the MIT SEAL paper (and other work on continuous learning) cross this imaginary AI danger 🚨red line already? These systems aren't actually dangerous, and surely all the big companies are working on similar stuff. Here's details of the SEAL work:
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Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way for large language models to keep learning on the fly—a step toward building AI that continually improves itself.
We must urgently assess how far Chinese AI systems have come—and work with U.S. industry to contain the risks of automated AI R&D. Because once an AI starts improving itself, the race changes entirely.
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RT @jyo_pari: Thanks @willknight for covering SEAL! Really appreciate the thoughtful and insightful way you captured the work.
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Trump’s visa-cutting measures may rob America of scientific expertise, technical talent, and many future entrepreneurs.
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The US says it will “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas and has paused interviews for all student visa applicants. Experts warn the moves could weaken American leadership in STEM.
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While the US puts up barriers to the rest of the world, the rest of the world demonstrations that it can offer increasingly competitive AI. Side-note: the Stanford AI index is an excellent, in-depth look at where things stand in AI.
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New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France.
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Nice piece by @EthanZ on DeepSeek and the perils of isolationism. If only someone in the administration might read it.
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The rise of China’s DeepSeek reveals the weaknesses of isolationism as an economic policy
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RT @GillVerd: New article in @WIRED by @willknight. Includes more on our tech's progress and our silicon probabilistic bit milestone. Go….
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RT @lmatsakis: SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to eliminate an entire team at the National Institute of Standards and Technolog….
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If you care about AI then you need to know about the probabilistic computer chip being developed by @GillVerd (aka @BasedBeffJezos) and @TrevorMcCrt1 of @Extropic. The backstory is as fascinating as the technology itself.
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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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