When the history of AI is written, Steven Adler may just end up being its Paul Revere—or at least, one of them—when it comes to safety.Last month Adler, who spent four years in various safety roles at OpenAI, wrote a piece for The New York Times with a rather alarming title: “I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica.’” In it, he laid out the problems OpenAI faced when it came to allowing users to have erotic conversations with chatbots while also protecting them from any impacts those interactions could have on their mental health. “Nobody…
On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk. The full compensation plan will go into effect by 2035—assuming Musk and the company successfully hit ambitious financial and production targets. If that happens, Musk will also get control of some 25 percent of the…
It’s rainy and cold here in the mountains. You can almost taste winter, even if it’s still officially a few weeks away. Christmas is coming, but Thanksgiving will get here first. Turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and green bean casserole and all the good things. In any…
Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several Android…
You know what the NYT Pips game needs? Some kind of extra challenge. Sure, the Hard Pips can be challenging but I want more. The New York Times Games bosses can have both these ideas for free. Either, or both, could be implemented. First, an easy way to make an…
Some US tech giants are abandoning their decade-long practice of publishing statistics about the gender and racial makeup of their workforce. Google, which helped pioneer the release of annual diversity, equity, and inclusion reports, has no plans to disclose the information this year, according to four employees familiar with the…
In thinking about applied AI in the business world, we have a lot of different aspects of approach to choose from. We can inspect markets to see where the opportunity lies, or solve a customer’s pain points. We can engineer something that will make stakeholders, or consumers, say “wow.” We…
One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I glanced at my phone and was puzzled to see my colleague Ash Roy calling. In and of itself it might not have seemed strange to get a call from Ash: He’s the CTO and chief product officer of…
It’s 2XP Friday for those of us who play Competitive Wordle. That means you double your points, whether positive or negative, and let the chips fall where they may. We’ve had some especially tricky Wordles lately. Let’s solve this one and get ready for the weekend!Looking for Thursday’s Wordle? Check…
It’s Thor’s Day and as always, we have a Wordle to solve. Before we do that, we have a riddle to solve from yesterday’s Wordle Wednesday challenge. This was the riddle:The answer: Headlights! Alright, with that out of the way, let’s knock out this Wordle . . . .Looking for…
TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not…
The day is nearly upon us, and KPop Demon Hunter dolls from Mattel are about to go on sale. Well, pre-sale, at least. The dolls were announced late last week, and now they are set to go live on Wednesday, November 12, which is tomorrow at the time of this…
Changpeng Zhao, the multibillionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, spent four months last year locked in a federal prison. After US president Donald Trump pardoned Zhao in October, the government has recast him as a martyr.Zhao, who goes by CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to maintain an…
Key TakeawaysTwo top leakers now disagree on the S26 Ultra’s 3x telephoto camera.Significant lens upgrades are tipped for the rear cameraThe Galaxy S26 Ultra’s new APV video codec could rival Apple ProRes.The Galaxy S26 Ultra’s camera future has recently come into question as two well-known tipsters are now publicly at…
Eventually, they claimed that they came to believe that they were “responsible for exposing murderers” and were about to be “killed, arrested, or spiritually executed” by an assassin. They also believed they were under surveillance due to being “spiritually marked” and that they were “living in a divine war” that…
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