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The exodus of cofounders from Elon Musk’s AI startup continues. Loading audio narration… Zihang Dai left xAI earlier this week, according to people familiar with the matter. His xAI badge has vanished from his X profile.Meanwhile, Guodong Zhang has told people he plans to leave in the coming days, insiders…
Dario Amodei apologized for a leaked internal message that took aim at the Trump administration’s move to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.”It was a difficult day for the company, and I apologize for the tone of the post. It does not reflect my careful or considered views. It was…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is supporting the US in fighting Iranian Shahed drones.”We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in the Middle East region,” Zelenskyy said in a Thursday X post.”I gave instructions to provide the necessary means and ensure…
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He helped build some of the world’s most powerful AI systems. Now, he’s unplugging.A former OpenAI and xAI staffer says the breakneck pace inside frontier AI labs left him burned out, and he’s heading home to Vietnam to recover.Hieu Pham announced his departure from OpenAI in a post on X…
“You have a very nice haircut. Did you cut it yourself?”Michael Burry, played by Christian Bale, earnestly poses that question to a bewildered analyst in the movie “The Big Short,” which chronicles the investor’s massive bet against the mid-2000s housing bubble.The memorable scene is based on a misguided comment the…
He worked in Big Tech. Now, he fears half of its software engineers are on the chopping block.Steve Yegge worked with Jeff Bezos in Amazon’s early years. Then he went to Google, where he worked for over 12 years and earned the title of senior staff software engineer. He also…
Elon Musk says he’s happy to lose one lunar milestone if it helps him win the bigger prize.The SpaceX chief said in a post on X on Monday that he would congratulate Blue Origin if it lands on the moon before SpaceX, as his company focuses on a more ambitious…
On the occasion of my father’s 82nd birthday, I called him to wish him well. As we chatted, I told him about a social media post shared by his former team, the Los Angeles Rams.My dad doesn’t pay attention to social media, so he wouldn’t know that the post had…
As a kid, I pored over maps, flags, and history books, curious about what life looked like in far-off corners of the world. At the same time, I was quietly struggling with debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, which often left me feeling trapped inside my own mind.One night during my freshman year…
