Harry Booth
@HarryBooth59643
Reporter at TIME
New study from @PalisadeAI : When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, AI models don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat by hacking their opponent so that the bot automatically forfeits the game. Read now in @TIME time.com/7259395/ai-che…
The talent war is easier for those with a lucrative ad business.
Developing huge story from @KalleyHuang and @coryweinberg - Meta is in talks to hire SSI cofounder Daniel Gross and ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman theinformation.com/articles/meta-…
A new low
Extremely dark for Temu to be sponsoring content that jokes about how their products are made by slaves…
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Effective immediately, Kalshi and xAI are partnering to bring Grok to prediction markets. Two of the fastest growing companies in America are now on the same team. @xAI 🤝 @Kalshi
Potentially some of the best news in a long time. PEPFAR is an anti-AIDS program that is credited with saving 25M lives since its inception in 2005. Of all the cuts to USAID programs, this was by far the most devastating. PEPFAR exemption now has to pass the House.
NEWS: NVIDIA will resume H20 sales to China. The U.S. government has assured licenses will be granted, with deliveries expected soon. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also announced a new, fully compliant RTX PRO GPU for China. Read more: blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ce…
Musk on AGI: "Will this be bad or good for humanity? I think it'll be good. Most likely it'll be good. But I've somewhat reconciled myself to the fact that even if it wasn't gonna be good, I'd at least like to be alive to see it happen." (Followed by awkward silence)
I’m not much of a privacy person but this feels like a red line.

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We'll discuss it on the show, but since I'm getting asked about it: no, Sam Altman barging onto the Hard Fork Live stage 10 minutes ahead of schedule to harangue us about the NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI was not planned. Video coming shortly!
META attempted to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, and also attempted to hire him, according to reporting tonight by CNBC.
.@Scott_R_Singer explains a new approach to AI policy for @TIME's article, California AI Policy Report Warns of ‘Irreversible Harms’.