As Danielle settled into the rhythms of new motherhood, her profession underwent a drastic reinvention. Danielle, who asked to use her first name to avoid…
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Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved
Over time, the tech industry has developed and deployed variations on the fat-tree architecture. But the design has room for improvement. It’s generally reliable, but…
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday requiring frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to have their safety practices…
Huawei's ‘Chip Queen’ Throws Down the Gauntlet
The plot thickens in the great AI chip race. Tingbo He, president of Huawei’s chip-design subsidiary HiSilicon, says her company’s engineers have developed a novel…
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
A group of AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs announced on Wednesday they’re launching a new startup…
Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien
Nobody was surprised that Pope Leo XIV cited well-known saints and previous pontiffs in his first encyclical, or papal letter of spiritual guidance, Magnifica Humanitas,…
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
When Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday, he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak.…
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
An algorithm decides what we see, another filters what we read, and still others enter into the processes that govern work, information, and collective choices.…
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
Sam Liang is appalled as I confess my technique for recording an interview: running the Voice Memos app on an iPhone and transferring the transcript…
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
“It’s probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” says Henry Ajder, a philosophy postgraduate…