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Cristina Criddle @criddle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Microsoft Chief Scientist Eric Horvitz warns that U.S. cuts to academic funding risk ceding the AI lead to rivals like China. He argues that without federal support, the "talent magnet" will move elsewhere. 🌐📉 www.ft.com/content/3cf9...

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Trump cuts to academia risk ceding AI lead, warns Microsoft scientist

Veteran executive Eric Horvitz argues talent and ideas will move abroad without US support for universities

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Cristina Criddle @criddle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

NEW: I had lunch with godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto. 🍽️ We chatted about how to design systems to be like our mothers, existential risk and how ChatGPT told him he was “a rat” in his breakup on.ft.com/41B84gu

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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’

The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip us

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Rafe Uddin @rafeuddin.ft.com · 10/07/2025

NEW: Amazon is discussing plans to invest billions more into AI start-up Anthropic as it tries to position itself ahead of Google and capitalise on Microsoft’s fraying OpenAI relationship. Story with @criddle.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social

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Cristina Criddle @criddle.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Amazon is weighing another multi-billion-dollar investment in Anthropic Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...

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Cristina Criddle @criddle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

OpenAI has upped its security: 🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1 🛜 systems kept offline by default 🫆fingerprint scanning for access 🪪 more data centre physical security ✔️ new hiring checks W/@tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/f896...

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OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The world’s leading AI groups are struggling to force AI models to accurately show how they operate, an issue experts have said will be crucial to keeping the powerful systems in check - rpt by @criddle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b349...

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Rafe Uddin @rafeuddin.ft.com · 18/06/2025

EXC: Microsoft has considered walking away from talks with OpenAI over the future of their partnership, instead sitting on a favourable contract that runs until 2030. Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social on.ft.com/3ZCHyCp

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Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks

[FREE TO READ] ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

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John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“If we build AIs that are smarter than us and are not aligned with us and compete with us, then we’re basically cooked,” @yoshuabengio.bsky.social tells the @financialtimes.com @criddle.bsky.social as he launches a non-profit LawZero to build safer systems on.ft.com/4jq1wHj

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‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users

[FREE TO READ] Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

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