Inside the $350 million missile silo that could become a data center

Tech Insider : Business, Style

As fears of global conflict grow, tech companies are racing to protect servers by turning nuclear missile silos and abandoned mines into ultra-secure data centers.

Former Google X exec warns the AI era will break the old rules

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style

Mo Gawdat is a former chief business officer at Google X and a longtime tech leader who worked on scaling Google in emerging markets.

How AI could destroy — or save — humanity, according to AI experts

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style

Artificial intelligence could transform medicine, education, and scientific discovery, but it could also deepen inequality, supercharge cybercrime, erase jobs, and put unprecedented power in the hands of governments and tech companies.

AI isn't replacing expertise — it's exposing who actually has it, an economist says

Tech Insider : Business
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Economist John A. List says AI isn't replacing experts — it's revealing who actually understands their work.

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Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks while wearing a grey suit, watch, and light-blue dress shirt while gesticulating with his hands.
Some Uber employees use an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, he said on a recent podcast.

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A new platform lets AI agents 'rent a human.' Its creator says his job worries drove him to build it.

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RentAHuman's homepage as of Friday, February 6, including a dashboard showing a site visit count of about 2.8 million, 11,000 total bounties, and 180,000
RentAHuman's website tells gig workers that they can join "the meatspace" by doing tasks for AI agents.

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How AI will change everything

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Technology

Craig Mundie is a former chief technical officer at Microsoft who spent years working on the policy questions raised by new technologies, especially artificial intelligence.

Why Wall Street's most data-obsessed investors are taking it slowly with generative AI

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
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Quant asset managers haven't adopted AI en masse yet.

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Trump signs executive order restricting states' ability to regulate AI

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
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Trump has said that AI would be "destroyed in its infancy" if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of state regulations.

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OpenAI lost a court battle against the New York Times — now it's taking its case to the public

Tech Insider : Business
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has criticized The New York Times after its lawyers asked to see ChatGPT user logs as part of the legal discovery process.

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