Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI

I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York. Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking The AI industry is booming.

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