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Xi Jinping standing on a pile of microchips with the Cinese stars on top
China's push to develop its AI industry could usher in a dystopian era of division unlike any we have ever seen before.

For technology to change the global balance of power, it needn't be new. It must simply be known.

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Paul Graham Y Combinator
Paul Graham said he and his wife gave Altman a choice between OpenAI and Y Combinator.
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Siri is dumb. It’s a sad fact, but the little assistant has long been a butt of jokes for its propensity to misunderstand even the most simple of requests.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman served as president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, from 2014 to 2019.
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Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley left OpenAI when Sam Altman returned as CEO.
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In a matter of two months, hopes for the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI devices crashed and burned.

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PwC will deploy generative AI over 100,000 of its employees and also sell ChatGPT Enterprise.
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There’s a CPU. There’s a GPU. In the past year, every tech company has been talking about “NPUs.” If you didn’t know the first two, you’re probably flummoxed about the third and why the tech industry is extolling the benefits of a neural processing unit.

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More than six months after Sam Altman was fired, then rehired, one of OpenAI’s former board members is finally spilling the tea on what happened behind closed doors. Helen Toner, one of four people responsible for firing OpenAI’s CEO, says Altman’s incessant lying created a toxic culture that executives described as…