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European countries are showing growing interest in the Israeli-made David’s Sling missile defense system, a senior Israeli official told Business Insider. The continent is racing to bolster its air defenses in preparation for a potential war with Russia.Roughly a dozen European countries have shown interest in purchasing David’s Sling over…
Fidji Simo, one of OpenAI’s top executives, is stepping down.Simo, the company’s CEO of applications, wrote on X on Thursday that she has decided to leave her full-time role and become a part-time advisor.Simo went on medical leave three months ago. She said on Thursday that she would focus on…
Elon Musk has kinder words for his rival — and now business partner — Anthropic.In recent weeks, the CEO of SpaceX has struck a friendlier posture toward his competitor, praising Anthropic’s team and its progress with its AI models. It’s a notable about-face from the man who once called Anthropic…
Leaders:Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen HorowitzCharles I. Jones, Stanford economistAsha Sharma, CEO of Microsoft’s AI PlatformTheir Mission: Study how artificial intelligence and technological change are affecting productivity, employment, and economic growth.This is arguably the highest-profile panel. Andreessen has been one of Silicon Valley’s most vocal AI advocates, while Sharma leads…
Uber has a new approach to using AI: “Agentic pods.”Praveen Neppalli Naga, the ride-hailing company’s tech chief, said in an X post on Tuesday that Uber embedded 30 of its “most AI-proficient engineers” with teams across the company, including finance, legal, and human resources.Over two weeks, the engineers worked with…
At the start of every quarter, I check in with Cloudflare to see how the biggest AI companies are treating the web. The latest data tells a familiar story: Strip-mining continues apace.For the week of July 1 through 7, the latest “crawl-to-refer” data shows Anthropic remains the biggest outlier. The…
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Roberto Serrano’s class scored curiously well on the take-home midterm exam. When he suspected widespread AI cheating and made their final exam in-person, their grades tanked.The Brown University professor teaches welfare economics and social choice theory. The midterm was administered from home after a shooter killed two students in December.”The…
My son, 11, is a die-hard soccer fan who did the impossible: He got me to love soccer and soccer culture. Long before the World Cup began, he begged me to go to a match. He typically plays soccer five days a week, often following a skills class with travel…
OpenAI has built a super app for work.On Thursday, the company announced it is now merging its popular Codex AI coding tool into its ChatGPT desktop app, a move to turn the flagship AI app into a one-stop shop for engineers and other professionals. OpenAI also revealed a Work setting…
