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I don’t think of myself as an overprotective parent. I began letting my kids stay home alone for short stints when they were around 10. I let them wander our neighborhood alone starting when they were 11 or 12. I don’t heavily monitor their social lives or phone usage, nor…
The next high-profile AI hire may not be another researcher, but an “embedded evaluator” tasked with scrutinizing frontier models before they’re released.In a blog post on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said frontier AI labs should commit to embedding independent safety evaluators within their organizations.The embedded evaluators’ job is to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Cabral Menezes, 27, who founded the brand WashWise, a “dry shampoo for clothes” that refreshes items between washes. WashWise raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding, as it announced on August 10. Backers range from people in the laundry industry, like…
Warning: Spoilers ahead for the “House of the Dragon” season three finale.Daenerys Targaryen is born nearly two centuries after the events of “House of the Dragon,” yet she haunts the narrative almost as much as the characters onscreen.There are echoes of Daenerys’ self-righteous rise to power — and perhaps, her tragic…
