The group’s massive bet on Jony Ive’s hardware venture isn’t a strategy. It’s desperation, says Shaw Walters, the founder of Eliza Labs, and creator of ElizaOS. OpenAI just spent $6.4 billion acquiring io, Jony Ive’s nascent hardware venture. As someone who grew up idolizing the Jobs-Ive partnership—Mac Addict subscription, Marathon on shareware, one of everything they […]
The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth. What to know: Telegram has secured $1.7 billion by issuing five-year convertible bonds, aiming to refinance existing liabilities and push out repayment deadlines. The messaging app, which now counts over […]
Telegram will also receive 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via the app. What to know: Instant messaging app Telegram has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate the Grok AI service within the app. Telegram founder Pavel Durov, revealed on X, that the two companies agreed to a 1-year partnership that would […]
Newspapers are printing summer reading lists of AI-hallucinated books. Apple “Intelligence” is making up fake BBC headlines. People are losing their minds as ChatGPT calls them “spiral starchildren” and “river walkers.” Like characters in a Loony Tunes skit, we have just run off the edge of a cliff and—with the advent of a new generation […]
Technocracy and the Internet of Bodies by Greg Reese The software of life Read on Substack
Most people have heard the adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.” What happens when people start outsourcing their brain’s ability to synthesize information and think critically (or even just think period) with a middle man that doesn’t even think at all? What happens when entire generations of young people don’t hone any […]
AI technology has been developing at an exponential rate, and it appears to be just a matter of time before we create entities that can think millions of times faster than we do and that can do almost everything better than we can. So what is going to happen when we lose control of such […]
In a few cities, like Milwaukee and New Orleans, there has been a public debate and pushback. If we fail to stop this technology, every city will become a Smart City and eventually a 15-minute city. Police in cities across America want to deploy AI-driven facial-recognition technology that’s capable of tracking and identifying every human […]
Generative AI engineers report that AI has a mind of its own and tries to deceive humans. The “alignment” problem is much discussed in Silicon Valley. Computer Engineers worry that, when AI becomes conscious and is put in control of all logistics infrastructure and governance, it might not always share or understand our values—that is, […]