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OpenAI has some big ideas about how to deal with AI disruption. Loading audio narration… In a series of policy recommendations released on Monday, OpenAI said the rapid advance of AI would require far-reaching economic and political reforms, including a public wealth fund, taxes on automated labor, and a potential four-day workweek.”We’re beginning a transition toward superintelligence: AI systems capable of outperforming the smartest humans even when they are assisted by AI. No one knows exactly how this transition will unfold. At OpenAI, we believe we should navigate it through a democratic process that gives people real power to shape…

The AI talent war is spreading to robotics. Loading audio narration… Chinese humanoid robotics startup UBTech announced this month that it was seeking a new Chief Scientist with a maximum salary of 124 million yuan ($18 million), per a translated job listing.The top-end pay sits some way below the most eye-watering earnings offered during the scramble for AI talent, with Meta and OpenAI previously accusing each other of trying to poach star talent with paydays of up to $100 million.But it marks a departure for China’s fast-growing AI and robotics industries, which have until now appeared to avoid the vast…

Silicon Valley has long debated the value of product managers — the people tasked with aligning engineers, sales, and other teams to build products users want, often through a messy, friction-filled process. Loading audio narration… As AI and vibe coding turbocharge engineers, allowing them to build more and faster than ever before, however, product managers are now managing more than ever.Companies may either need to hire more of them or invent something new altogether, Anthropic’s head of growth, Amol Avasare, said on the latest episode of “Lenny’s Podcast.”Avasare said engineers are easily seeing the biggest gains from AI tools like…

Jensen Huang. Ben Horowitz. Sam Altman. Satya Nadella. Loading audio narration… Although that sounds like the Sun Valley Conference guest list, it’s actually just part of an eye-popping lineup of speakers for a Stanford University computer science course starting this spring.”Frontier Systems,” taught by professors Michael Abbott and Anjney Midha, will guide students through each layer of AI infrastructure — from chips to applications — over 10 weeks.When Abbot began teaching the course four years ago, it was called “Security at Scale” and drew about 60 students. Now, the course has 500 students and a waitlist, Abbot said.Part of the…

GPU prices have jumped this year, underscoring how far the market for AI chips remains from any kind of post-boom normalization. Loading audio narration… In an interview, Carmen Li, chief executive of Silicon Data, said the firm’s pricing data shows broad increases across older and newer Nvidia GPUs, used to train and run AI models.The firm’s Neo Cloud H100 index rose from 2.20 to 2.64, a 20% gain over the past three months. The Neo Cloud B200 index climbed from 4.40 to 5.35, a 22% jump. And the Hyperscaler H100 index increased from 7.26 to 7.46, up 3%, according to…

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Like a lot of young children, Matthew Shifrin loved building Lego sets. But because he was blind, Shifrin had to rely on friends and family to help him complete his creations — sometimes bribing them with tea to get them to come by his house.That all changed when he was 13. A family friend and babysitter came over to his house in Newton, Massachusetts and handed him a binder filled with accessible instructions for building a Middle Eastern palace. The instructions, written in braille, allowed him to complete the set without having to rely on the…

Mark Cuban said CEOs of large public companies face a tough dilemma with AI, and it’s looking like a lose-lose situation for them. Loading audio narration… The former “Shark Tank” billionaire investor said in a Sunday X post that entrepreneurs are building AI-native companies that displace incumbents. On the other hand, incumbents face what he called the “Innovator’s AI Dilemma”: either tear down their companies and reinvent them as native AI, or do nothing.In either case, Cuban said investors won’t be happy. He said we’ll know when AI is affecting public companies from two kinds of shareholder lawsuits: one against…

Inside one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, employees can openly challenge the CEO — even on Slack. Loading audio narration… On an episode of “Lenny’s” podcast released on Sunday, Anthropic’s head of growth, Amol Avasare, said employees all have a personal Slack “notebook” that is open to others. Staff, including CEO Dario Amodei, use it like a “Twitter feed” to discuss their thoughts and what they are working on.”You can go and join the Slack channel, the notebook channels of people on research, and all these other areas, and you can learn whatever you want,” Avasare said.He added that…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hunched over a sewing machine, Kil Bae is hemming a dress inside his Manhattan tailor shop when a new customer stops by with a vintage Tommy Hilfiger jacket he wants taken in.The modeling agent paid $20 at a thrift store for his reversible bomber style that’s plaid on one side and red on the other. He’s willing to spend $280 to have it slimmed down. Alteration requests with such a price disparity would have seemed odd a few years ago, the tailor says, but are helping to keep the bobbins bobbing at his one-man shop, 85…

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it’s also been getting dinged on social media over Copilot’s terms of use, which appear to have been last updated on October 24, 2025. “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the company warned. “It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” A…