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Government Deals and a Palace Dinner: Scale AI’s Billionaire CEO Eyes Grander Stage In Politics

By Julia Black and Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Mar 15, 2025 6:00am PDT · 3 comments
Just a day before a major AI summit in Paris commenced last month, the event’s organizers made a sudden addition to the speaker lineup: Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old billionaire co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, a startup that specializes in fine-tuning and assessing the quality of AI models for both private companies as well as the U.S.... Just a day before a major AI summit in Paris commenced last month, the event’s organizers made a...
Art by Clark Miller
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AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million

By Akash Pasricha · Mar 1, 2025 6:00am PST · 7 comments
Deep in Queens, New York, out near John F. Kennedy Airport, Larry Fischer was distraught. One of his favorite Italian joints—Don Peppe, the place where he lunched with Facebook’s lawyers after selling them Messenger.com in 2014—had closed for vacation this past week. It had seemed like a fitting place for our conversation about... Deep in Queens, New York, out near John F. Kennedy Airport, Larry Fischer was distraught. One of...
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Can’t Compute It All? Introducing The Information’s Glossary of AI Jargon

By Rocket Drew · Jan 30, 2025 7:16am PST · 2 comments
The only thing coming at us faster these days than advances in artificial intelligence’s capabilities is the amount of industry jargon we’re all needing to decipher. Don’t know the difference between open weights and open source? Still trying to distill the meaning of AI distillation, the process DeepSeek may have used to... The only thing coming at us faster these days than advances in artificial intelligence’s...
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A Marketplace to Solve AI Copyright Woes?
By Abram Brown · Dec 28, 2024 6:00am PST · 1 comment
Art by Clark Miller
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A Marketplace to Solve AI Copyright Woes?

By Abram Brown · Dec 28, 2024 6:00am PST · 1 comment
Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments imagining how artificial beings should interact with humans. The tenets underpin much of modern science fiction, and they tend to knock around in the minds of the people developing modern technology, too. Trip Adler, a co-founder of Scribd—which... Nearly a century ago, Isaac Asimov laid out his Three Laws of Robotics, a set of commandments...