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The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

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Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

OPINION In a public post titled "The Future is for Everyone," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declares, "We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history."

For Zuck to posit that "The Future is for Everyone" is at once facile for being so vague it could mean anything – are there people now living who are excluded from the future? – and foolish for its failure to address real issues that actually affect people's lives.

We are perhaps not so fortunate as the unpopular but wealthy Zuck, worth more than $200 billion. But we're fortunate enough not to be chased by a public record that mocks his musings.

In 2019, Zuck said, "The Future is Private." This was while he was running Facebook, an ad business predicated on the denial of privacy. His credibility...

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I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach

Senate Finance panel’s top Dem proposes excise tax on new data centers

Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20

Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round