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"AI labs don't get what people want"

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PLUS: AI is dead—organoids are alive. View in browser | Your preferences ■ In this week's Backchannel :   Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source. ‘ The big labs are reading the future wrong ’ Hi, everyone, Steven here. This week we talk to one of tech’s visionaries, Tim O’Reilly, who says that while the big hyperscalers pursue AGI, open source will be the people’s choice. Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more va...

How to have fun at press events alone

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Plus: The Cut x Meta Glasses, a Reply All retrospective, and media's most notorious softball team. ͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏  ...

The safety reckoning inside OpenAI

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PLUS: Her brain was broken—it was fixed with sound. View in browser | Your preferences SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS BUSINESS   The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI   By Maxwell Zeff   OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI s...