2003 footage shows Caltech sophomore Dario Amodei opposing the Iraq war at Pasadena City Council. He presented a petition with nearly 600 signatures urging opposition. Ten days later, the U.S. invaded Iraq. In 2021, he co-founded Anthropic.
Sam Altman says patching bugs can no longer secure the internet as AI may exploit hardware-level issues. OpenAI will not open-source its best model soon, though open source is not far behind.
Bill Gates said AI may make most human labor unnecessary. The next 20 years could bring disruption before abundance.
Humanoid robots may arrive in 2–8 years and could build homes, grow food and perform surgery.
Sam Altman said OpenAI’s next infrastructure focus is robots that build robots and data centers that build data centers.
Speaking at Stanford, he compared it to AI recursive self-improvement.
OpenAI is building an exabyte-scale storage system as ChatGPT grows. Habitat serves 500+ PB across 40 regions, supporting 1B+ users and 70M+ requests/sec. New Rockset/Raft tech reduces flash needs, trading peak throughput for capacity.
Marc Andreessen said individuals are adopting AI faster than companies, often without management knowing. He expects startup formation to rise as workers find AI makes starting businesses easier.
Anthropic and OpenAI allocate about 20% to public benefit; Anthropic’s founders pledged 80% of equity.
Musk plans to give 1 SpaceX share to each of 72M U.S. children.
Epic reportedly told developers on Disney’s Marvel/Star Wars FPS to use Claude for code and AI for art. Bloomberg says Disney delayed the project.
AI may be shifting from an optional tool to a management mandate.
NEW - Moderna shares fell 17.5% after mRNA cancer-vaccine study details were shared on social media, raising concerns about the treatment's effectiveness.
South Korea’s Sungho SI developed Eve Clever, an AI farm robot using RGB-D cameras, AI vision, and a robotic arm to monitor crops and harvest strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. Its cloud platform enables remote farm data management.
Getty sued AI firms over training on its images as designers shifted to Midjourney and stock-photo licensing declined. The company monetized the visual record was overtaken by AI trained on it.
Meta’s Muse reached 10.2M U.S. downloads in 40 days, compared with ChatGPT’s 3.7M. It is one of 12 apps to reach 10M in that period.
Meta increased Muse’s ad-spend share from 23% to 39%. Its 14-day retention is 23%, vs. 16% for ChatGPT, Claude and Grok.
Nvidia invested in 4 German startups: MireloAI, AgileRobots, Avelios Medical and Reflex Aerospace. It previously backed n8n, Neura Robotics and Black Forest Labs.
