2026-08-14
A Baconian approach to the mostly Aristotelian corporate AI. And what that means for your business
Large language models are amazing and extraordinary reasoning machines. However, companies need a new breed of systems that can act, observe consequences, and learn from reality as it happens. [...]
2026-08-14
Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT
A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It is among the most disturbing in a growing line of cases in which an […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need
The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being sent aloft to plug the gap, quietly becoming sensors that […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
