I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the company, saying that AI labs are “gambling with
Tech leaders like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are calling for a slowdown in the development of AI, and investors on Monday appeared to be taking the notion seriously. Stocks linked to the AI boom tumbled as investors processed the implications of frontier labs hitting the brakes. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell as
Google Maps has made the switch — for Americans, at least. A search on the mapping app on Sunday shows the name “Lake America” for the body of water adjoining northern New York and southern Ontario, known until very recently — and still to most — as Lake Ontario. President Donald Trump signed an executive
With hash browns, my order totaled $18.86 before tax and tip. The same seven items cost $16.88 at Cracker Barrel and $18.58 at IHOP, so Denny’s came out pricier than both. All three chains felt like a solid value for the amount of food I got, but in my opinion, Denny’s provided the biggest bang
In the high-flying world of AI investing, sometimes you get the bull, and sometimes you get the horns. After a long ride on the bull, Gen Z hedge-funder Leopold Aschenbrenner found out last week how quickly things can shift, even for a whiz kid once called the “Nostradamus of AI.” It’s a story that was