I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

People who had previously felt paralyzed by their NDA’s began to talk. Helena, the conflict-avoidant moderator of the Mercor subreddit, worked overtime deleting...

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He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm...

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When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers

Food handling is an area of work that still relies heavily on humans. Fruit, vegetables, meat, and other foods need to be handled...

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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

Nearly a year later, on a hot day in the high summer of 2025, I stepped into NGA’s headquarters at the Fort Belvoir...

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AI Will Never Be Conscious

The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of conscious AI into...

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Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was...

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OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

In case OpenAI’s structure couldn’t get any weirder—a nonprofit in charge of a for-profit that’s become a public benefit corporation—it now has two...

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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Of course, Silicon Valley was never all flowers and psychedelics. “For all that it might flatter itself with counterculture roots, making money and...

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Where Are All the AI Drugs?

A new drug usually starts with a tragedy.Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child of a mechanic and...

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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced...

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The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin:...

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Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI

But more piles of fascinating research are only useful to Google if they generate that most important of outputs: profit. Most customers generally...

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