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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said one topic was front and center at the billionaires’ summer camp in Sun Valley: AI spend.Speaking with CNBC at the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference, Altman said this was the first year AI spend has been a “very big topic” at the conference.”Everyone’s…
A successful Disney trip starts well before you touch down in Orlando.You need hotel reservations, ground transportation, park reservations and tickets, and those coveted advanced dining reservations, also known as ADRs.But the very first (and most important) decision you’ll make is when to go.When deciding, I look up Disney World…
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have reached a settlement, bringing their “It Ends With Us” legal feud to an end.The film’s press tour in the summer of 2024 was overshadowed by rumors and speculation of a feud between lead star Lively and Baldoni, her costar and director.While the movie survived…
Disney is exploring making some of its streaming content available at an unbeatable price: free.The Mouse House is discussing making some content accessible on Disney+ without a paywall, according to two people familiar with the matter.Product and tech chief Adam Smith spoke about enabling free-tier content during a streaming town…
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…
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…
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…
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…
If you’re using AI to write your LinkedIn posts, you might want to reconsider.New data from Pangram suggests LinkedIn has become inundated with AI content. The AI detection firm estimates that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts and 30% of short-form ones were likely AI-generated, based on its data from April to…
In June, three of my friends and I embarked on a long, ambitious, and, at times, tiring road trip from Wyoming to Seattle. We had planned to stop at four national parks in six days, spending a few hours in each.We knew from the start that we wouldn’t be able…
