Eli McCreary of Omaha, Nebraska, said he had recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer when he got a call from a local hospital run by CHI Health. He said he was informed that he wasn’t insured anymore under Medicaid — and that the hospital would cancel his appointments unless he paid out-of-pocket. McCreary, who was
At a press conference today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday’s nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA was related to work replacing outdated copper wire with a fiber optic line at a “remote FAA facility.” The secretary said that this was “routine maintenance,” rather than the result of a major modernization effort. He
Death by AI may sound like science fiction, but Paul Christiano says it could become the most likely fate for people alive today. “I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident,” the former OpenAI researcher said at The Hinton Lectures on Monday.
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An Elon Musk acolyte, Tesla driver, and serial entrepreneur, Teague Egan was imagining ways of breaking into renewable energy in 2018 while he took a vacation to Bolivia. He learned about the country’s salt flats, their lithium reserves potential and, eventually, about the industry’s antiquated lithium mining techniques. “As an entrepreneur, I knew there had
A petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate the company’s recently ousted CEO Jensen Huang appears to have attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon. The petition website said the signers include 5,965 current Nvidia employees, 1,108 former employees, and 63,063 shareholders. Notable supporters include Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Replit CEO Amjad
