Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing...
The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US
Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring similar to their US counterparts on the LMSYS benchmark. It notes that China publishes...
Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival
Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t...
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to...
I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?
If we all start opting out of our posts being used for training models, doesn’t that reduce the influence of our unique voice and perspectives on those models? Increasingly, the...
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable,...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets....
To Truly Fix Siri, Apple May Have to Backtrack on One Key Thing—Privacy
Still, Apple was entranced by the possibilities, as was then-CEO Steve Jobs. “This was Steve’s last deal,” Siri cofounder Tom Gruber told WIRED. “He was personally involved in all stages...
