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Everything’s fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir.In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could cause mass human extinction, a concern that numerous engineers and leaders from frontier AI labs have raised in recent days and weeks.”The world is going…
AI safety fears have recently moved from an abstract Silicon Valley argument to a series of unnerving real-world episodes.Jay Kreps, a former Anthropic board member and a cofounder of data-streaming software company Confluent, says it is important to take them seriously.In a Thursday night X post, he argued that AI…
Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale has a reality check for President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to give Americans cash.”For the record, I am hugely in favor of winning the midterms, and love much about this admin, but am strongly against bread and circus bribes,” Lonsdale wrote on X.Lonsdale, who endorsed Trump…
Earlier this month, the AI hacking startup Horizon3 achieved a rare milestone: a $250 million funding round pushed its market valuation above $2 billion, making it a so-called double unicorn.CEO Snehal Antani said he spent nearly two decades acquiring the skills he needed to build the business, which simulates cyberattacks…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Carylyne Chan, cofounder of Good Instincts. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I joined the crypto company CoinMarketCap in 2018, I was part of a very small executive team. Although we all worked remotely, I immediately built a great…
If you’re thinking of starting a business, there’s no reason to wait.When Business Insider asked LinkedIn users which decade of life is the best time to start a business, the 30s came out on top. Ronnen Harary says that tracks with the average age of entrepreneurs in the US —…
A cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab said she’s stepping down because of stress and illness.Lilian Weng said in a post on X that Tuesday would be her last day at Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup she cofounded with OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, Mira Murati.Weng, previously OpenAI’s vice president…
