Parmy Olson

AI may be a fantastic long-term investment, but today’s frothy atmosphere increases the chances of real pain along the way.

Earlier this month, an engineer at leading AI lab Anthropic PBC visited Stanford University to give a visiting lecture to roughly 100 computer science students. They were weeks away from graduation, and worried, like their peers booing mentions of AI at recent commencement speeches, about what the future holds for them in an industry that’s replacing swathes of coders with artificial intelligence tools. They peppered him with questions seeking career advice. Yet while the engineer had only gradu

Catching a glimpse of Dario Amodei these days is like finding a rare butterfly. The chief executive officer of Anthropic PBC was scheduled to meet with 50 fellow bosses from some of Europe’s largest companies in Oxfordshire last week, an exclusive convocation by his firm at a Jacobean-style mansion that included former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, now an Anthropic adviser. Amodei had been scheduled to travel to another part of Europe afterwards, but his trip was cut short to just one or t

Catching a glimpse of Dario Amodei these days is like finding a rare butterfly.

The artificial intelligence (AI) firm has been walking a wobbly tightrope as both a champion of AI safety and creator of powerful models whose impact on the world is unknown. But its newest models that are capable of working unprompted could test users' trust in an increasingly opaque technology.

Gamers who long ago coveted Nvidia Corp.’s graphics cards because they rendered computer games so beautifully will soon be eyeing new Windows computers that plug that technology right into a laptop’s brain. Nvidia’s latest effort to diversify itself from the monumentally successful business of selling chips for artificial-intelligence servers is to offer consumers and businesses an alternative to notebooks with “Intel inside.” It's a smart hedge for Nvidia. Whether the computers will be a smart

When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we’ve been used to seeing for more than a decade, online advertisers had something of a collective freakout. The Alphabet Inc.-owned company called it the biggest such shift in more than 25 years, and that the search bar would be “completely reimagined” with artificial intelligence.

The world's most valuable company is heavily dependent for sales on a few AI hyperscalers. So Nvidia's aim to diversify its offer basket by making computer chips for Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc, makes sense. But will its new launch click?

Forget sponsored links. Now “conversational discovery ads” will be built to sit inside AI answers themselves, and potentially include a chat agent so the user never clicks through to a website.

When Google recently announced radical changes to its search tool that will overshadow the page of blue links we've been used to seeing for more