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Anthropic CEO Says He’s Uneasy About Unelected Tech Leaders Shaping AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s uneasy about how much power a handful of tech leaders — including himself — have over the future of artificial intelligence.”I think I’m deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people,” Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a…

Perplexity’s CEO Says He’s Worried About AI Companionship Apps

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is uneasy about one of AI’s fastest-spreading use cases: companionship.The CEO of the AI search engine said in a fireside chat hosted by The Polsky Center at the University of Chicago that the rise of voice-based and anime-style chatbots could be “dangerous.”In the conversation published Friday,…

He Worked at Baidu and ByteDance; Now He’s Building Robotic Pets

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with He Jiabin, 35, the CEO of Ropeta, a Beijing-based robotics startup. His words have been translated and edited for length and clarity.When it comes to decisions, I follow my instincts.I grew up in Zhuzhou, Hunan, in central China. At 17, I…

Brian Niccol Explains the Lessons He’s Learned As CEO of Starbucks

Speaking on Wednesday at the Salesforce Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Brian Niccol acknowledged that he’s made a mistake during his first year as Starbucks’ CEO.”Initially, we had taken the tactic like ‘hey, we just got to get this business turned around and then we’ll start talking about what’s going…

Howard Schultz Said He’s Worried — ‘With a Big W’ — About AI

Howard Schultz said he’s — capital W — Worried about AI.Speaking in an interview with LinkedIn’s editor in chief, Daniel Roth, the former Starbucks CEO brought up the topic of AI, saying it was something he wanted to talk about.He drew parallels between the speed at which social media progressed,…