Activists concerned about existential risk from AI have come up with a publicity stunt to protest this locked-down summit: hire video trucks to drive alongside delegates’ busses en route to Bletchley Park.

Huge congrats to Jeff Horwitz on the publication of his book about Facebook/Meta Platforms, 'Broken Code,' the culmination of extraordinary reporting inside the failings of one of the most influential companies in history. Don't miss it. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712678/b…

I had plans tonight, not that anyone cares. Berber Jin and I covering this big twist today. Employee all-hands underway. More to come. wsj.com/tech/sam-altma…

Here's how TikTok brings the Israel/Gaza war home to children on the app: With: Sam Schechner Rob Barry jason brian whitton Kara Dapena wsj.com/tech/tiktok-is…

It was a fascinating discussion—thanks for doing it

Mistral AI says a new model it's releasing today performs comparably in reasoning capability with GPT4 and Gemini Ultra -- but cost a fraction to train. More on the 9-month old startup and its 31-year-old CEO, Arthur Mensch here: wsj.com/tech/ai/the-9-…

Phil Schiller, Apple’s former chief marketing officer and confidant to Steve Jobs, has emerged as the most ardent defender of the company’s "walled garden" wsj.com/tech/apple-tur… via Aaron Tilley & Kim Mackrael

In Paris too, journalists ran in solidarity with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia for a year now. #IStandWithEvan Stacy Meichtry Mimosa Spencer Noemie Bisserbe Sam Schechner

It’s been one year since our colleague Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia for doing his job: journalism. #IRunForEvan #IStandWithEvan

Friday will mark one year since our friend and The Wall Street Journal colleague Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia. Today we ran in Paris to mark this outrageous anniversary #IRunForEvan #IStandWithEvan

PUBLICATION DAY! Today my book "The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power" is being sold everywhere books are sold! bookshop.org/a/96695/978031…

Meta plans to give European users of Instagram and Facebook the option of receiving what it says are “less personalized ads,” in a concession to regulators on.wsj.com/3UO9hgT

Fun story about the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic. I expect coming up with better and more realistic threat models for frontier risks is going to be one of the more important areas of AI policy to work on in 2025.

Meet the "Frontier Red Team" at Anthropic, trying to push their latest AI models to do catastrophic things -- in order to stop them before it's too late: wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-saf… via The Wall Street Journal

France is using nuclear power to build a new gigawatt scale AI training facility —starting w 120k high end Nvidia chips by 2026–rivaling the first step of Stargate. wsj.com/tech/ai/france…

What if AI makes us all dumb? Take a look at the latest research, and some of my own personal experience wsj.com/tech/ai/how-i-…

AI is supposed to free us to be more creative. But what if it’s just making us lazy and stupid? Sam Schechner on how to save our brains. on.wsj.com/4hWb6kr

A wave of violent attacks around the world is targeting crypto executives and their families. Victims have been pistol whipped, abducted, and—in two cases—had fingers severed. 🔗: on.wsj.com/44HivBr

Thanks for the mention! I think my take is a lot more nuanced than you imply. I *do* mention Plato and the positive role cognitive outsourcing plays in human advancement. A key question is how conscious we are about how we use tools and the tradeoffs we make. Please read!

Reupping this essay given growing conversation over the AI's impact on thinking. My view as a big AI user: one can use AI non-lazily (as Ethan Mollick suggests) but it takes discipline. I do my own synthesis and articulation of ideas, bc those are skills I don't want to atrophy