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Gordon McTemper @gordonMT posted an article in Technology
2026-05-06 22:00:05 ·

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says. Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller doesn’t think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is untrustworthy, despite recent reporting to the contrary. On stage at The Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” conference this week, Diller vouched for the AI exec, who has been accused by some former colleagues and board members of...

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Gordon McTemper @gordonMT posted an article in Technology
2026-04-08 15:01:05 ·

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’ Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch. Back in 2009, the tech Zaharia developed for his PhD at UC Berkeley, under the tutelage of famed professor Ion Stoica, was...

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Gordon McTemper @gordonMT posted an article in Technology
2026-05-04 17:00:06 ·

Elon Musk’s only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Elon Musk’s only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety, and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that, they cite old emails and statements from the...

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