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How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’
On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was “Oversight of AI.” The session was a lovefest,...
OpenAI’s first device with Jony Ive reportedly won’t be a phone or a wearable
The first device OpenAI is putting out with Jony Ive won't be a phone or a wearable and may not even have a screen at all, according to...
OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work
OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone...
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s design startup for $6.5 billion
OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's startup, io, for $6.5 billion, as first reported by The New York Times. The company confirmed the news in a blog post on...
The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned...
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution
Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998 and were married soon after—were so taken by...
