Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting
The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or even a conscious piece of software....
Unpacking ‘Good Quests,’ Christianity, and Caviar Bumps
The mission of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs has long been to change the world. But, how do you know whether a pursuit is good or bad? ACTS17...
Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light
Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” known as X, has long cultivated craziness in its edgy projects. Perhaps the most outlandish was Loon, which aimed to deliver internet via...
Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips
It’s the Oura Ring. It’s not new, but new to me. Have you guys heard of the Oura Ring? Zoe Schiffer: Oh my God. You know...
Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here
Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused...
DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up
It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world. The introduction of its open-weight model—apparently trained on a fraction of the specialized computing...
Meta Is Dismantling DEI Programs but Tells Investors It Still Wants ‘Cognitive Diversity’
Meta employees typically vote on which questions executives should address at companywide meetings. Ahead of such a gathering scheduled for Thursday, several of the most-endorsed questions...
The World According to Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen [archival audio]: So, I decided to read my way out in both directions, both all the way out to the left, all the way...
Amazon Warehouse Workers Across US Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush
“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible,” Teamsters general president Sean M. O’Brien...
All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025
Lauren Goode: I don’t remember that. Zoë Schiffer: I think she did. Michael Calore: I don’t know why everybody’s looking at me. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Mike,...