Vitalik Buterin Says AI’s Real Danger Is Who Controls It
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared thread on AI’s future.
AutoML, short for automated machine learning, uses software to automate repetitive parts of building a model. A system may prepare features, compare algorithms, tune hyperparameters, select architectures, allocate training resources, and rank candidates against validation metrics. This can help teams establish strong baselines and make machine learning accessible when specialist time is limited. Automation does not eliminate the need for judgment: people still define the problem, choose data, prevent leakage, select meaningful metrics, assess fairness, and decide whether the result is safe to deploy. AutoML can also consume substantial compute or overfit repeated validation tests, so its search process and final model should be documented and independently evaluated.
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared thread on AI’s future.
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has raised $500 million from Nvidia and GV to pursue self-improving AI systems, despite having no public product.
LinkedIn is testing a new platform that lets users earn up to $150 per hour training AI models. The move taps into fast-growing demand for human feedback in AI.
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging the company copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries to train ChatGPT without permission.
Artificial intelligence has become the top investment theme for global family offices, while cryptocurrencies remain largely sidelined, according to JPMorgan’s latest global survey.
Apple introduced Apple Creator Studio, a subscription bundle combining professional creative apps with new AI-driven features across video, music, imaging, and productivity tools. The offering expands Apple’s push into intelligent software workflows for creators.
Voice AI startup Wispr has secured another $25M in funding as its Flow dictation app surges in enterprise adoption and user retention, bringing total capital raised to $81M.
Pinterest is turning to open source AI models to cut expenses and enhance its visual search and shopping tools, even as the company forecasts softer holiday revenue. CEO Bill Ready says the approach will support performance while keeping infrastructure costs in check.
Elon Musk has unveiled Grokipedia – an AI-driven encyclopedia built on Grok that aims to offer factual, bias-free knowledge as an alternative to Wikipedia.
Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of the $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, has joined Meta after previously rejecting what reports described as a $1.5 billion offer — a figure Meta has since called ‘inaccurate and ridiculous.’