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The definitive account of how WeWork went from a $47 billion valuation to a basket case in just 6 weeks::The WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann picked the wrong time to be the visionary leader of a company with imperial ambitions and obscure finances.

Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country’s natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used “password-1234” on their accounts.

OpenAI recruiters are trying to lure Google AI employees with $10 million pay packets, report says::OpenAI has already won over top talent from Google and Meta to work for the AI firm.

‘The most stunning demo I’ve ever seen in my life’: ChatGPT impressed Bill Gates by acing AP Bio exam::ChatGPT’s AP Biology score demonstrates near human-level competency, according to tech billionaire Bill Gates.

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Tech bros and Wall Street billionaires are indulging anti-vaxxer RFK Jr.'s presidential dreams::Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and hedge fund Bill Ackman have both shown support for the controversial candidate.

Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy. But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods. White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.

Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner’s WiFi connection.

Archaeologists in Poland discovered the skeletal remains of a child buried face down around 17th century. The child’s ankle had a triangular padlock attached, a common practice during that time to prevent “vampires” from rising from the dead. Nearby was also found the remains of a pregnant woman. These burials were located...

China’s tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country’s cozying up to its tech firms again.::Local governments in China are wooing deals with tech giants to build on the so-called “platform economy,” per the SCMP.

Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin::Bill Gates and Sam Altman spoke about the future of AI being one where the technology works as super-helpful assistants to humans.

A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider on Tuesday that its soldiers found the decapitated corpses of babies at Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near Gaza....

The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.

Ukraine has recently taken out two of Russia’s prized S-400 air-defense systems in Crimea....

A top AI expert says most outsourced coders in India will be out of a job in 2 years thanks to the technology::India’s coders “will be gone in the next year or two, whereas in France, you’ll never fire a developer,” Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said.

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From writers and teachers to bankers and lawyers, most jobs seem ripe to be replaced by artificial intelligence — with one notable exception. The only job that seems to be safe from the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech is, oddly enough, the most expensive and easily automated role: CEO....

Russian minefields have exposed the limitations of Western-provided armor, forcing Ukraine to rethink its counteroffensive, per The Washington Post.