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Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’

A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5X faster”...

OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold

Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had created an internal...

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab

Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days.The small startup is shutting down...

Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history...

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...

Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists....

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar idea was once...

Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab

At least three artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the initiative....

Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red...

Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on DC?

Zoë Schiffer: Totally. OK. I need to shift us to a new topic because I'm already feeling quite depressed. This one is about...

Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs

The fact that AI can produce results that range from remarkably impressive to shockingly problematic may explain why developers seem so divided about...

Sam Altman once considered presidential run, now signals openness to Trump: Vanity Fair report

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who once joked about running for US president if Donald Trump won in 2016, has now signalled a striking...