Elon Musk said humans may 'no longer be in charge of the world in 10 years' and maintained a 10% to 20% risk of AI-driven catastrophe, according to a July 2026 interview with The Economist. The Tesla …
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI', has suggested that today's AI systems may already be conscious, while Richard Dawkins, author of 'The Selfis…
Replacing entry-level Gen Z workers with AI could lead to a future talent crisis, warns MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee, who says junior roles are essential training grounds for building experien…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him 20 times wealthier, with his fortune potentially reaching $300 billion, while middle-class workers might only see their salaries double over the…
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis said at a London business conference that a STEM degree makes people 10 times more effective with AI tools, pushing back against the idea that coding degrees are b…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said STEM students can use AI tools 10 times more effectively than those without technical knowledge, emphasizing that software fundamentals remain crucial as programming e…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist whose foundational work on neural networks and deep learning underpins modern artificial intelligence, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics join…
AI-powered technologies are rapidly entering nurseries, classrooms, and family life, with companies developing AI chatbots for kids, AI toys, and virtual tutors, while recommendation algorithms and AI…
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing movement of hard-line activists, driven by fears of human extinction from AI, is escalating protests and attacks against AI companies and data centers. T…
In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton published the AlexNet paper at NIPS, introducing a deep convolutional neural network architecture that revolutionized computer vision by w…
The AI industry is facing a shift from computation to memory as the fundamental primitive for intelligent systems, according to Andrej Karpathy. Just as GPUs replaced CPUs as the dominant compute arch…
Pope Leo XIV and Cambridge astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris have independently warned that artificial intelligence poses existential risks to humanity, with Peiris describing AI systems as laying tracks …
Nvidia became the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization on October 29, 2025, driven by its early bet on parallel computing through CUDA in 2006. The company's chips, initially use…
Etched exited stealth on June 30, 2026, revealing a working AI inference chip built on TSMC's N4P process that already runs models like DeepSeek and Llama. The San Jose startup has raised $800 million…
AI hardware startup Etched unveiled its Sohu chip and rack-scale inference system on June 30, designed specifically for transformer-based large language model inference. The company claims over $1 bil…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project …
AI chip startup Etched announced it has booked $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million to date, including a $500 million round at a $5 billion valuation, as it emerges from stealth with …
Etched emerged from stealth with a working chip, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts, pivoting from a transformer-specialized ASIC to a full-stack inference systems c…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip th…
The author defends the use of p(doom), the probability that AI will cause human extinction, as a useful shorthand for gauging familiarity with AI risk arguments and initiating deeper discussions, desp…