Is the shakeup at Google DeepMind a strategy or a crisis?
All you really need to know here is Pablo Torre and his team won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing how Steve Ballmer’s LA Clippers paid star Kawhi Leonard under the table through a tree-planting operation called Aspiration that never planted a tree. Same story, only this time it’s the world’s largest 4K stadium display. Incredible stuff.
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Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the anti-AI movement is channeling bipartisan backlash.
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control.
Altana CEO Evan Smith on the new normal of global trade.
OpenAI can’t afford another lawsuit, especially not with a company like Apple.
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Bart Butler on encryption, child safety, and why there’s no such thing as a backdoor for only the good guys.
Xinzhou Wu on autonomy, Chinese cars, and if we really need lidar.