In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to share what he called a “cool use case” on Friday, posting that parents could “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” to the company’s new product ChatGPT Work, then “every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s
“Artificial” star Andrew Garfield is weighing Amazon MGM Studios’ decision to drop the Luca Guadagnino-directed film about Sam Altman and OpenAI. “I was and I was not [surprised]” the Oscar winner told me on Wednesday while promoting his new film “The Magic Faraway Tree.” “I think there are certain things that fit in certain places
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it may be time to “accelerate” AI development so the world is ready for it. “We may have to accelerate the pace of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new levels of capability,” he told Patrick O’Shaughnessy, host of the Invest
World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month locked sale of the global token, WLD. Lock-up periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period of time. The one-year lockup demonstrates
