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Powerful AI could compress 50 to 100 years of biological and medical progress into 5 to 10 years. AI-accelerated science could solve mental health, eliminate most cancers, prevent most infectious disease, and double the human lifespan. In climate, AI could…
AWS and Anthropic deepen strategic collaboration. Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Trainium2 as its primary training chips, and AWS as its primary cloud and training partner, with $4 billion in additional investment from AWS to support model development…
We're going to have for the first time something smarter than the smartest human. Solve AGI by next year. It will solve all the problems — energy production, water production, food production. We're going to have an age of abundance. (Elon Musk (founder, xAI))
Investigation by the Southern Environmental Law Center documented that xAI installed and operated as many as 35 portable methane gas turbines at the South Memphis Colossus data center without applying for Clean Air Act permits. Combined nameplate output of…
Context Said approvingly, not as a warning — during an hour-long investor Q&A pitching Oracle's AI infrastructure. Ellison described a future where police body cams, drones, and street cameras feed continuously into AI that "will report that problem to the appropriate person," supervising officers and citizens alike in real time. He was describing a product…
Context Posted under a video of far-right rioting in Liverpool — days after the Southport stabbings, while mobs were attacking hotels housing asylum seekers. Viewed 9.6 million times on the platform he owns and whose amplification rules he sets. The UK Prime Minister's office responded on the record: "There's no justification for comments like that." Musk did not…
AI has the potential to mitigate 5–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — the equivalent of the annual emissions of the European Union — through optimization of energy grids, transportation routing, and climate-modeling acceleration. (Sundar Pichai…
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 totalled 14.3 million tonnes CO2e, an increase of 48 percent compared to 2019, primarily driven by increased data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions associated with AI infrastructure build-out.
Together IBIT and the Circle Reserve Fund give BlackRock direct fee exposure to both the dollar-stablecoin and crypto-asset markets that the GENIUS Act and SAB 121 reversal regulate.
Circle publicly campaigned for the repeal of SAB 121 and for passage of the GENIUS Act stablecoin framework, both of which materially expand its addressable market.
Circle's S-1 filing disclosed that interest income on reserves accounted for the substantial majority of total revenue, making the company's economics directly geared to short-term U.S. interest rates.
Hill's top career contributor is Stephens Inc at $433,140, followed by Bank of New York Mellon ($50,000 in the 2024 cycle alone). His leadership PAC is named In the Arena PAC.
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030. By 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975. (Brad Smith (President), Satya Nadella (CEO))
Our overall emissions increased by 29.1 percent from our 2020 baseline. As we have grown our cloud business, building data centers to deliver AI services has resulted in higher Scope 3 emissions associated with the construction of those data centers, the…
I am very confident that we will be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy from LA to New York by the end of the year. So basically, you'll be able to get in the car, go to sleep, and wake up at your destination.
FTX has enough to cover all client holdings. We don't invest client assets (even in treasuries). We have been processing all withdrawals, and will continue to be.
Palantir's source code, ranking algorithms, and data-model schemas are protected trade secrets. Disclosure — even under court-ordered protective order — would cause irreparable competitive harm. Confidentiality clauses must override any third-party…
Marketing position: Palantir Foundry/Gotham provides 'auditability', 'transparency', and 'civil-liberties protections' that justify entrusting it with NHS patient records, IRS taxpayer files, and ICE detention data. The same platform whose code is a sealed…
Why it matters Palantir's commercial-litigation posture is that its software is so proprietary and confidential that even a federal court cannot compel meaningful disclosure of how its ranking and matching algorithms work. Its…
It's time for us to just put the imperial hat back on, to say, we're going to govern those countries … 'cause enough is enough, we're done being invaded.
Context Prince was arguing the U.S. should directly govern "incapable" countries in Africa and Latin America. When his co-host warned listeners would call that colonialism, Prince answered: "Absolutely, yes." From a man who builds and sells private armies — including pitches to do exactly this kind of work — it reads less as provocation than as a business plan.…
Context The manifesto's own "The Enemy" section then names the ideas: a "mass demoralization campaign" waged "against technology and against life" under the names "existential risk," "sustainability," "ESG," "social responsibility," "stakeholder capitalism," "trust and safety," "tech ethics," "risk management," and "de-growth." The document declaring safety teams…
Across the board, we have a responsibility to not just build tools, but to make sure those tools are used for good. … You should have complete control over your data.
Exxon's internal scientific projections from 1977 to 2003 are shown in Science to have been highly accurate predictions of warming — contradicting decades of public-facing doubt.
Public-facing position throughout the 1990s–2000s: 'the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.' Exxon argued in defense filings that its statements were protected…
Exxon's own scientists, in internal memos, accurately projected the magnitude and rate of human-caused warming decades before the public statements that called the same science 'inconclusive'. The peer-reviewed analysis shows the internal projections tracked…
Why it matters Exxon's defense to state-level consumer-protection suits is that climate science was genuinely uncertain when it told the public it was uncertain — i.e., a good-faith reading of the science at the time. The Supran et…
Context His own answer, as OpenAI's CEO, to the worst-case scenario for the technology his company leads the race to build. He added that he is "more worried about an accidental misuse case in the short term" and stressed safety and alignment work. The entry pairs with his 2015 quip above: a decade apart, the stated downside has stayed "the end of the world" while…
