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On a blustery March day, the artist Jim Sanborn received visitors at his studio on an isolated island in the…

You went down the coding agent rabbit hole last November along with everyone else?It was an intense time for the…

The Catholic ethicists even had a say in Anthropic’s recent update to Claude’s constitution, which sets the behavioral parameters for…

It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room…

Employee benefits are in the spotlight this week, and that’s because of three recent stories about US companies cutting back…

Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might…

Sometime in the next year or two, Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will step onto a stage and tell the…

Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a…

The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common.…

Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day…

Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it to Steve…

It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and…

I’ve spent the past few days asking AI companies to convince me that the prospects for AI safety have not…

Before last week the name Alap Shah didn’t ring a bell for many people. The 45-year-old financial analyst and tech…

This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing…

Anthropic is locked in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and leads the…