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You’ve filled up the washing machine with a full load of clothes. You’ve got the fabric softener ready to go and all you need is the laundry detergent. That’s when you realize there is no laundry detergent. Before you grab the Dawn dish soap from the kitchen as a substitute, beware that you’re risking a…

Bitcoin is often described as decentralized infrastructure, but its nodes normally depend on internet connectivity to exchange transactions and blocks. A global internet outage would therefore create a serious operational problem, although it would not automatically erase Bitcoin or permanently destroy the network.

Add preferred source The Economist reports that NVIDIA has become the “central bank of AI,” dominating capital flows across the AI industry. The company has invested over $70 billion in startups over the past three years and provided $300 billion in financial support to customers. As its largest customers—Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—push forward with…

Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote about the need for outside organizations “to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes.” Executives…