Karen Hao

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Karen Hao

On his second day in office this year, President Trump underscored his unequivocal support for the tech industry. Standing at a lectern next to tech leaders, he announced the Stargate Project, a plan to pump $500 billion in private investment over four years into artificial intelligence infrastructure. For comparison: The Apollo mission, which sent the first men to the moon, spent around $300 billion in today's dollars over 13 years. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, played down the investment.

1 week ago | businessinsider.es | Karen Hao |Andrea Gómez Bobillo

[Este es un extracto de Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI de Karen Hao. El libro se basa en entrevistas con alrededor de 260 personas y en una extensa colección de documentos. Cualquier correo electrónico, documento o mensaje de Slack citado proviene de copias o capturas de pantalla de esos documentos y corrreos electrónicos o son exactamente tal como aparecen en las demandas.

1 week ago | maharlikanews.com | Karen Hao

The shift in gravity unsettled some people, heightening their anxiety about random and unrelated incidents. Once, a journalist tailgated someone inside the gated parking lot to gain access to the building. Another time, an employee found an unaccounted‑for USB stick, stirring consternation about whether it contained malware files, a common vector of attack, and was some kind of attempt at a cybersecurity breach.

1 week ago | the.ink | Anand Giridharadas |Karen Hao

We just got off a call with the technology journalist Karen Hao, the keenest chronicler of the technology that’s promising — or threatening — to reshape the world, who has a new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Karen Hao |Rina Chandran

When Sonia Ramos was a child, she witnessed an accident that would shape the rest of her life. She was born into a mining family in Chile. Her father worked for an American copper company; she grew up among the children of the other workers. In 1957, a part of the Chuquicamata mine collapsed, killing several people and injuring dozens more.