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We profiled Jacob Coxon, the "normal researcher" who quit Anthropic and caused a firestorm, tracing his journey from high school math whiz to London rationalist to self-proclaimed "doomer."
with @AmrithRamkumar @berber_jin1 @bzcohen: wsj.com/tech/ai/jacob-coxon-…
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New in @WSJ: In the biggest AI math breakthrough yet, OpenAI says it has solved a Millennium Prize Problem. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-mille…
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In this year of unthinkable math progress, it seems like open problems that have stood for decades are falling every day. Just last month, in fact, I asked Demis Hassabis if we had reached a Move 37 moment for math. wsj.com/tech/ai/move-37-ai-d…
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Your kid is obsessed with them. You can’t stop eating them. And now your freezer is full of them. I wrote about JonnyPops:
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A 24-year-old investor hailed as a visionary attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street’s latest cautionary tale. on.wsj.com/4xoKql7
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Really enjoyed talking to @bzcohen about AlphaGo's famous move 37 and the significance of it 10 years on for math and science breakthroughs in verifiable domains
A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI. Now the world is full of them. on.wsj.com/4waySAp
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Move 37 started the modern AI era. A decade later, the entire world is beginning to feel like a Go board. I spoke with @demishassabis about math, centaur science and this Move 37 moment: wsj.com/tech/ai/move-37-ai-d…
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He just won math's biggest prize. So what's next?
He's going to OpenAI.
@WSJ column on a Fields Medalist and the world's most important math problem: wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-jacob…
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The World Cup came to America—and the most American condiment won. This is how ranch became even bigger than ketchup. wsj.com/business/world-cup-r…
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You know about the lightbulb, AC and the iPhone. This is the unknown story of the world’s greatest overlooked invention: a line on the side of the road.
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The lightbulb, the internet, and the iPhone lead the list of America’s greatest inventions. WSJ Columnist Ben Cohen has a new addition: the white line on the right side of the road.
Read more: on.wsj.com/4p5T1ps
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Elon Musk is officially the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX went public.
$1 trillion is such a large number and so far beyond the human imagination that we can’t wrap our minds around it. So let’s make it possible—by stacking pennies.
Read more: on.wsj.com/3QFJF6W
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A famous math problem stumped humans for 80 years.
AI just cracked it.
I wrote about the unit distance problem breakthrough and why it matters—even if you would like to permanently distance yourself from geometry.
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SpaceX is about to launch the biggest IPO this planet has ever seen—and it's all fueled by Starlink. wsj.com/business/starlink-sp…
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BlackBerry isn't dead. It's secretly running your entire life.
This is how an obscure division inside BlackBerry built the hidden software in 275 million cars and benefited from an incredible competitive advantage: complete and utter neglect.
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Scott Kirby, a card counter banned at blackjack tables around the world, made the biggest bet of his career at United Airlines—and it’s paying off.
@WSJ gift link:
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New in @WSJ: United is flying high and entering Delta's airspace. Can it be America’s most beloved airline? wsj.com/business/airlines/un…
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Three weeks ago, I asked Tim Cook: What's the one piece of advice you would give the next CEO of Apple?
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