Mar 8, 2023
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it's the largest ai research grant to date from coefficient giving, the outcomes-oriented funder launched largely with the wealth of facebook cofounder dustin moskovitz
as anthropic looks out for claude's 'wellbeing,' a new google deepmind paper warns of a coming fight over 'ai welfare'
following nonsense regulations and an army of meddlesome karens, I traveled to micron's delayed $100 billion campus to find out: are we really going to "reindustrialize"?