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  • 1 week ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

    CEO of Scale AI Alexandr Wang testifies on July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Credit - Drew Angerer—Getty Images Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, the leading player in the AI data industry, was a very strange deal indeed. Meta acquired 49% of the company in the deal announced last Thursday. Scale announced that its CEO, Alexandr Wang, would quit to become an executive in charge of a new “Superintelligence” unit inside the tech giant.

  • 1 week ago | aol.com | Billy Perrigo

    CEO of Scale AI Alexandr Wang testifies on July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Credit - Drew Angerer—Getty ImagesMeta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, the leading player in the AI data industry, was a very strange deal indeed. Meta acquired 49% of the company in the deal announced last Thursday. Scale announced that its CEO, Alexandr Wang, would quit to become an executive in charge of a new “Superintelligence” unit inside the tech giant.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

    The Scale AI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone Credit - NurPhoto via Getty Images—Jaque Silva/NurPhotoMeta is reportedly set to invest $15 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI, in a deal that would make Scale CEO Alexandr Wang head of the tech giant’s new AI unit dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence.”Scale AI, founded in 2016, is a leading data annotation firm that hires workers around the world to label or create the data that is used to train AI systems.

  • 2 weeks ago | aol.com | Billy Perrigo

    The Scale AI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone Credit - NurPhoto via Getty Images—Jaque Silva/NurPhotoMeta is reportedly set to invest $15 billion to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI, in a deal that would make Scale CEO Alexandr Wang head of the tech giant’s new AI unit dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence.”Scale AI, founded in 2016, is a leading data annotation firm that hires workers around the world to label or create the data that is used to train AI systems.

  • 1 month ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

    Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd. “We needed some way for identifying, authenticating humans in the age of AGI,” Altman explains, referring to artificial general intelligence. “We wanted a way to make sure that humans stayed special and central.” The solution Altman came up with is looming behind him.

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Billy Perrigo
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5 Jun 25

Bernie on AI

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The CEO of Anthropic (a powerful AI company) predicts that AI could wipe out HALF of entry-level white collar jobs in the next 5 years. We must demand that increased worker productivity from AI benefits working people, not just wealthy stockholders on Wall St. AI IS A BIG DEAL.

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Billy Perrigo
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The Orb Will See You Now. Sam Altman's audacious startup wants to prove you're human. What else does it want? I spent months reporting on Tools for Humanity as it prepared to hit the mainstream. The result is this week's TIME cover story. (Link in next tweet!) https://t.co/e4zjsanBYo