The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

Today I'm launching a $100million climate tech venture fund focused 100% on the oceans called Propeller (in addition to my duties as chairperson HubSpot)

the bird is freed

I'm #reading All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson goodreads.com/review/show/50…

I am just appalled by the media coverage of President Donald J. Trump's decision to approve the Willow oil drills in Alaska. WHY is the framing "Biden vs the activists," when even the International Energy Agency says that meeting the 1.5C target of the #ParisAgreement requires no new fossil energy development? THREAD

Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: openai.com/product/gpt-4

15 AI websites that will help you write code faster:

The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen is, I believe, the most stunning example of the contribution of information technology to market performance. Take a look at this graph for background: in three different regions of Kerala, phones were adopted at different times.

Engineering site work begins immediately on Poland's first three AP1000® nuclear reactors in a historic moment for the country's clean energy future! We today signed the Engineering Services Contract with Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe. We're excited to get to work! Read more: bit.ly/3PsSRqK

It's 2023, 109 years after WW1 started, yet the pre-WW1 imperial borders are still visible on the election map of Poland - and on many others, for that matter. A thread 🧵🧵🧵-->

We just published with Samotsvety Forecasting, a group of expert forecasters, a forecasting report with 3 key contributions: 1. A predicted 30% chance of AI catastrophe 2. A Treaty on AI Safety and Cooperation (TAISC) 3. P(AI Catastrophe|Policy): the effects of 2 AI policies on risk 🧵

We're now in the worrying timeline where we could wake up tomorrow and discover that the fast takeoff has started

Max Tegmark Rishi Sunak Ursula von der Leyen Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment. They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry. You, Geoff, and Yoshua are giving ammunition to those who are lobbying for a ban on open AI R&D. If

Among the dangers of AI is that LLMs dual-trained on code and biology could enable computer viruses to jump to DNA substrate. Imagine getting a cold that compromises your immune system and makes it start mining Bitcoin

Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my

Why did so many hunter gatherer groups around the world nearly-simultaneously and in an unconnected way develop agriculture? This has been a kinda problematic question in human prehistory. It may have been solved... by an economist? Studying the economics of... Earth's orbit?

10am, 9th of May for an Openai event apparently, might not be model release but search engine announcement. Guess they can’t help themselves to upstage Google I/O ( Can’t guarantee this, event times and dates can be changed )

openai just released TWO new models in the lmsys arena last night: im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot so far im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot seems to be stronger in reasoning, and seems far more capable than the gpt2-chatbot briefly released last week.

I am immensely excited to have Werner Vogels as a CTO Fellowship mentor in our AI for Changemakers program. NGOs will Bootcamp their AI use cases and Tech Companies then build them pro-bono 5 cohorts: 1. Disaster Management 2. Climate 3. Health 4. Education 5 . Economic Opportunity