Billy Perrigo

2 weeks ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

The last time I interviewed Demis Hassabis was back in November 2022, just a few weeks before the release of ChatGPT. Even then—before the rest of the world went AI-crazy—the CEO of Google DeepMind had a stark warning about the accelerating pace of AI progress. “I would advocate not moving fast and breaking things,” Hassabis told me back then.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, on July 28, 2024. Credit - Nathan Howard—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesTech companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build new U.S. datacenters where —if all goes to plan—radically powerful new AI models will be brought into existence. But all of these datacenters are vulnerable to Chinese espionage, according to a report published Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Billy Perrigo

7 hours agoUS sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on South East Asia solar panelsThe US Commerce Department has announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four South East Asian countries. It comes after an investigation that began a year ago when several major solar equipment producers asked the administration of then-President Joe Biden to …3 hours agoTrump wants a Golden Dome over America.

4 weeks ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just 20 minutes before the world did. The CEO of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s artificial intelligence lab, received a phone call with the good news at the last minute, after a failed attempt by the Nobel Foundation to find his contact information in advance.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

Robotic arms at a factory of Estun Automation in Nanjing, China, on April 7, 2025. Credit - Xue Jinlong/VCG via Getty ImagesAnnouncing his tariffs in the White House Rose Garden last week, President Trump said the move would help reopen shuttered car factories in Michigan and bring various other jobs back to the U.S.“The president wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in the United States of America,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added on Tuesday.