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Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-25 08:00:34

At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion – even if the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity and the promise of saving souls while extracting resources. For today’s AI empire, it’s artificial general intelligence to “benefit all humanity.” And OpenAI is its chief evangelist, spreading zeal across the industry in a way that has reframed ho

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Rust tool for generating random fractals

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 16:56:05

Chaos Game Fractal Generator A simple command-line application written in Rust for generating fractals using the 'Chaos Game' algorithm. Table of Contents Algorithm Description This application generates fractals using the following simple, iterative algorithm: Define the $n$ vertices of a regular polygon Choose a random initial point within the polygon Select one of the polygon's vertices at random Move the current point a specific ratio, $r$ , of the distance towards the chosen vertex Rep

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How Marvel’s Huge Budget for ‘Eternals’ Actually Worked Against It

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-23 03:04:07

Chloé Zhao is currently promoting her follow-up to Marvel Studios’ Eternals, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. The 2020 book is based on William Shakespeare and his wife as they grieve the loss of one of their children, which would go on to inspire Hamlet. It makes sense that after making a movie where the Academy Award-winning director’s voice felt pulled in many directions, a more intimate movie would be her next choice. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Zhao talked about how

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Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-26 21:36:34

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the cybercrime gang behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations had breached hundreds of U.S. companies before being taken down last month. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), DHS's main investigative arm, which took down the group's infrastructure in cooperation with international law enforcement partners, added that the cybercriminals also collected over $370 million from their victims. "Since 2022, the Royal and BlackSuit rans

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Zhaoxin unveils new consumer and server CPUs aimed at challenging global semiconductor giants

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-12 05:56:00

Why it matters: Zhaoxin's latest processors mark a key step in China's push for technological self-reliance, bringing new AI-focused chips that aim to challenge established global players. While still behind industry leaders, these advances reflect growing domestic capabilities in AI computing, signaling a shift toward greater innovation and independence in a strategic sector. This week, Chinese semiconductor company Zhaoxin introduced its latest generation of consumer and enterprise processors

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FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 10:52:41

FBI Dallas has seized approximately 20 Bitcoins from a cryptocurrency address belonging to a Chaos ransomware member that is linked to cyberattacks and extortion payments from Texas companies. The crypto was seized on April 15, 2025, and was traced to an affiliate named "Hors," who is suspected of launching the attacks against the companies. "The seized funds were traced to a cryptocurrency address allegedly associated with a member of the Chaos ransomware group, known as 'Hors,' who has been

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After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 04:21:30

Hot on the heels of a major ransomware group being taken down through an international law enforcement operation comes a new development that highlights the whack-a-mole nature of such actions: A new group, likely comprised of some of the same members, has already taken its place. The new group calls itself Chaos, in recognition of the .chaos name extension its ransomware stamps on files it has encrypted and the “readme.chaos[.]txt” name given to ransom notes sent to victims. Researchers at Cis

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Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-21 10:58:24

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI wh

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-21 17:58:37

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1. “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs,” Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads Friday. “Shengjia co-founded the new lab and

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Meta names OpenAI's Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-22 00:29:40

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence hiring blitz in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg announc

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Mark Zuckerberg names ex-OpenAI employee chief scientist of new Meta AI lab

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-22 05:44:54

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence hiring blitz in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg announc

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Roundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review 2026-02-13 04:59:17

Recorded on June 30, 2025 AI journalist Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to power and its far-reaching impact all over the world. Hear from Karen Hao, former MIT Technology Review senior editor, and executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation exploring the AI arms race, what it means for all of us, and where it’s headed. Speakers: Karen Hao, AI journalist, and Niall Firth, executive editor.

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