Hashtag Trending: Sam Altman Warns of AI Power Concentration as China Pushes Open Models
Sam Altman is warning that artificial intelligence could become concentrated in the hands of a few companies, models or individuals. But there's an uncomfortable tension in that warning: OpenAI and Anthropic both rely heavily on proprietary models, while Chinese companies are aggressively releasing increasingly…
Sam Altman is warning that artificial intelligence could become concentrated in the hands of a few companies, models or individuals. But there's an uncomfortable tension in that warning: OpenAI and Anthropic both rely heavily on proprietary models, while Chinese companies are aggressively releasing increasingly capable open-weight alternatives. Jim Love also looks at billionaire Mark Cuban's proposal for tackling wealth inequality by giving workers equity in the companies they help build, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offering a similar philosophy on employee compensation. Then, a developer discovers that AliExpress was silently using Web Audio and a range of hardware and software signals to create a fingerprint of visitors' devices and send encrypted results back to Alibaba servers. Brave blocked the technique, while Chrome allowed it in the researcher's testing. And Apple is cutting more than 200 jobs in Siri and Vision Pro-related teams just days before the company's CEO transition, despite recently reporting its strongest June quarter ever.