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Gary MarcusVoicesReport from the Vatican In my view, Pope Leo XIV is by far the clearest thinker on AI among prominent world leaders. It was a genuine thrill to meet him yesterday.
Gary MarcusVoicesWhat Anthropic left out of their draft S-1 Gregory ( Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gary MarcusVoicesGenerative AI’s make-or-break week? Rumor has it that Anthropic is about to IPO. In some ways, they couldn’t have picked a worse week. Consider the following:
Gary MarcusVoicesWill Generative AI do more harm than good? In early March 2023, I had a debate with Keith Teare, hosted by the organization Open to Debate, on the question of whether ChatGPT would do more harm than good.
Gary MarcusVoicesAll the king’s horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to put CoreWeave back together again Here’s CoreWeave’s stock price over the last six months: and zooming in on the last week. The blip where it went up comes from Monday, when a bunch of people went on television and hyped the stock.
Gary MarcusVoicesBreaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents " We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency ” — Sam Altman, October 3 Breaking news from Madison Mills at…
Gary MarcusVoicesGenerative AI in disarray Tech stocks were hit hard yesterday. CoreWeave, with its growing debt problems, took the hardest hit, down over 15% in one day.
Gary MarcusVoicesIt remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study Greetings from New Delhi. In an emailed newsletter, Laura Bratton at The Information has reported on a new study (direct link not available): Anybody remember back in early 2023, when people imagined…
Gary MarcusVoicesCould this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment? In May, at the peak of tokenmaxxing, people were talking about OpenAI IPO’ing at a trillion dollars, Anthropic at two trillion dollars. Maybe that will still happen, but it probably shouldn’t.
Gary MarcusVoicesWe must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now Breaking new from The New York Times , the latest of many agent-caused incidents that are happening with frightening regularity , but this time from Anthropic and fairly serious: I have long felt…
Gary MarcusVoicesComplementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop OpenAI’s massive new math drop: [This essay was written in extreme haste before a very long wifi-less flight; please forgive typos.] Part One: My take The real news here isn’t the result; it’s not…
Gary MarcusVoicesComing soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks On Monday, starting at 11am Eastern Time, less than a day after Politico reported that Sam Altman said, in words that may last in infamy, “ we believe that the world should accept some bad things…
Gary MarcusVoicesCan companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout An interview (my questions in italics) with Zephyr Teachout , attorney, author, and law professor that could not be more timely: What’s your background, legal and otherwise, and what makes you…
Gary MarcusVoicesHot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence” Here’s the Accord, which Trump apparently described as a “tremendous” exercise in “self-policing”: Reading the Accord between the lines We agree not be regulated We agree not to give the public a…
Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident Major scoop at The New York Times from Sheera Frenkel, Dustin Volz, and Dylan Freedman. @sheeraf , @dnvolz and me.\n\n nytimes.com/2026/09/29/tec… ","username":"dylfreed","name":"Dylan…
Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: Florida seeks injunction against OpenAI The big news in the media this morning is that Jensen (“What, me worry?”) Huang has announced a platform for “AI Agent Safety”.
Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands Nope, wasn’t just Hugging Face. Wasn’t just that and a German website. Wasn’t even the “dozens” we heard about the other day from OpenAI.
Gary MarcusVoicesBREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation OpenAI’s software didn’t just attack Hugging Face. It didn’t just attack a German web server. It didn’t just attack Australia’s government servers.
Gary MarcusVoices“I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang Before I discuss the latest breaking news, everyone should watch this clip from Jensen’s interview with Ezra Klein (or at least read the transcript below.
Gary MarcusVoicesHistoric UN Security Council Briefing on AI This afternoon at the UN Security Council, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face CEO and Cofounder Clement Delangue gave back-to-back speeches.
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