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Twelve “tech legends” walk into a bar and start getting picked off one by one — who would you trust to suss out the killer?You can get a glimpse into that scenario thanks to a new show that gathered a group of Silicon Valley elite — including OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and biohacker Bryan Johnson — to play Mafia, a murder-mystery game of deception.The show, which launched Thursday on YouTube and X, is from Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel.For viewers unfamiliar with Mafia, the purpose of the game is…
Sam Altman said AI budgeting had recently become a “huge issue” for some companies — and it sent AI bubble watchers and doomers into a frenzy.During a Tuesday enterprise event, Altman referenced memes like, “My company spent my entire 2026 budget in Q1.” “That went from, at the beginning of this year, an issue that never came up — people were totally happy with the amount they were spending — to all of a sudden, a huge issue,” Altman said.The reader response was loud. Some said that it was a warning of dark times or a failure in AI business model.…
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The new top producer at “60 Minutes” is thanking staffers for their work after what he said was “a hell of a first week.””It has been a trying and difficult few days,” said Nick Bilton, who recently became the executive producer at “60 Minutes,” in a memo viewed by Business Insider.Bilton was grilled by longtime correspondent Scott Pelley about his qualifications and those of his boss, CBS News top editor Bari Weiss. While both Bilton and Weiss worked at news organizations like The New York Times, neither had a background in TV news.Pelley confronted Bilton on Monday during his inaugural…
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Daniela Amodei has entered the tokenmaxxing discourse in Silicon Valley — and no, Anthropic does not have an AI leaderboard.At Thursday’s Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, the Anthropic president and co-founder took a question about tokenmaxxing, where developers use as much AI as possible and rack up huge bills with unclear business payoffs.Amodei was diplomatic, but offered a bullish vision.She said that though AI models have dramatically improved over the last two years, this isn’t the end state of their progress.”I actually think there’s a lot more distance to go still for what the models will be able to…
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AI may not be a complete disaster for jobs yet, but companies are citing it more than any other reason when announcing layoffs, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.The global outplacement firm’s latest report said AI accounted for 40% of 97,006 job cuts by US-based employers in May, the highest monthly total since Challenger began tracking AI as a reason for layoffs in 2023. So far in 2026, Challenger says 87,714 cuts have been attributed to AI, far surpassing the total of 54,836 in 2025.”AI isn’t yet the jobpocalypse some predicted,” Andy Challenger, labor and workplace…