Antibiotic resistance is a fast-growing public health crisis, causing more than a million global deaths annually and contributing to nearly 5 million more. These infections…
Category: Primers
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
OpenAI has a goblin problem. Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include…
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
Elon Musk and Sam Altman appeared in a federal courtroom together for the first time on Tuesday as they fight over OpenAI’s decade-long evolution and…
The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
Between malware, online impersonation, and account takeovers, there are enough digital security problems out there as it is. And with the rise of agentic AI,…
The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s…
Some Musk v. Altman Jurors Don't Like Elon Musk
A jury was selected on Monday during the first day of trial for Musk v. Altman in a federal court in Oakland, California. Some of…
Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
Elon Musk is boosting a post on X promoting The New Yorker’s extensive investigation into Sam Altman’s allegedly deceptive behavior, WIRED has confirmed. The move…
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to…