Tim Fernholz
33 posts
Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.
Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
“Distillation” is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
Coby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100 million to train its models for war. We visited its bootcamp.
We visited Scout AI’s training ground where it’s working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of…
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
Overview Energy’s first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.
AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter.
10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.
SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B
The move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI…
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
There’s a lot more code — but it’s a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.
Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
Krieger’s departure and any forthcoming design tools will be another data point for investors who fear the SaaSpocalypse…