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Self-improving AI without a human reviewer carries the most risk, says DeepMind's CEO
11 arguments: why AlphaFold reaches 4M researchers, why recent AI cyber incidents were avoidable, and why Google DeepMind's CEO says building conscious…
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"There is no keeping up. There is only keeping calm": Spicewell CEO on AI agents
6 lessons: Upwork's CEO on trading fixed roadmaps for a pioneer mindset, Watch Duty's CEO on why haste kills in public safety, and Autodesk's CMO on…
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China's AI gap with the US has shrunk to 6 months from up to 2 yrs, says ex-Google CEO
9 calls: why the US needs 60 to 80 gigawatts more power by 2031, the "obliteration" technique that strips AI safety limits, and why most of the world…
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"Trust is earned": OpenAI CFO on healthcare
7 takeaways: the months-long secret fix for a PHP flaw that could have "brought down a lot of the internet," and the model OpenAI held back after it…
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REI CEO: heavy AI bot traffic on our site is a cost of doing business
5 takeaways: why REI reversed its Burgum endorsement, what AI bot traffic costs a co-op with no shareholders, and the Sephora lesson behind its AI…
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OpenAI product chief: a slight slip on safety tests kept Astra 6.1 from release
10 insights: why OpenAI held back Astra 6.1, how AI wrote most of a 30-day ChatGPT rebuild, and the two moments that made him feel AGI had arrived
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Hershey CEO on GLP-1s: "over 30% of our portfolio is in portion control"
9 takeaways: why cocoa prices spiked, how an AI tool tells the CEO which store to visit next, and why Hershey's century-old trust keeps activists out
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Jess Hertz: 75% of AI-attributed orders came from outside the top 100 categories
11 takeaways: Why Shopify says complexity is its moat, what AI shopping agents do to conversion rates, and how headcount stayed flat through 34% revenue…
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Hayden Brown: AI agents almost never finish a job alone, and clients are quietly hiring humans back | Pioneers of AI
Why Upwork's CEO refused to blame AI for cutting a quarter of her corporate staff, what her MCP server does when a chatbot gets stuck, and the new…
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Aza Raskin: AI companions compete with your human relationships, technologists need to yellow-team their own incentives, and 70% of crow…
The infinite scroll's inventor on the race to occupy the most intimate slot in your life, what Zuckerberg could have done in 2012, and using AI to…
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