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Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax

Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but “can’

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Jack & Jill raises $40M to put an AI agent on both sides of the hiring table

Jack & Jill has raised $40M in a Series A led by Air Street Capital, bringing total funding to $60M less than a year after a $20M seed round. Madrona and Antler are new investors, and Creandum, Ada Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Expedite Capital, and Repeat.vc all returned. The product

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The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years

Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep

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Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week

Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too

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Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax

Jack & Jill raises $40M to put an AI agent on both sides of the hiring table

The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years

Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week