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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Share valuations based on past earnings have also reached their highest levels since the dotcom bubble 25 years ago, though the BoE noted they appear less extreme when based on investors’ expectations for future profits. “This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of… Read More »

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

“While TBD Labs is still relatively new, we believe it has the greatest compute-per-researcher in the industry, and that will only increase,” Meta said. Wang and other former Scale staffers have struggled with some of the idiosyncratic ways of working at Meta, according to someone familiar with his thinking, for example having to adjust to… Read More »

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

Even Space Race salaries were far cheaper The Apollo program offers another striking comparison. Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, earned about $27,000 annually—roughly $244,639 in today’s money. His crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins made even less, earning the equivalent of $168,737 and $155,373, respectively, in today’s dollars. Current NASA… Read More »

After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”

Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,” according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, to join the new lab as part of a broader reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts under CEO… Read More »

Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on September 27, 2023. reader comments 49 On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is working on building “general intelligence” for AI assistants and “open sourcing it responsibly,” and that Meta is… Read More »

Dana White Talking to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg About UFC Fight

Social media has been ablaze since Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to a fight. According to UFC President Dana White, he’s already spoken to the pair about a potential match. Both Zuckerberg and Musk are serious about fighting Speaking to TMZ Live on Thursday, White said that he’s been in communication with both Zuckerberg… Read More »

Facebook bans Holocaust denial amid rapid rise in “deceptive” content

Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. reader comments 128 with 74 posters participating Share this story Facebook today is, once again, theoretically ramping up enforcement against hate speech, this time with a new policy prohibiting Holocaust denial on the platform. The change is due to a “well-documented rise in anti-Semitism… Read More »