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An ‘ice avalanche’ from a glacier is thought to have triggered flash flooding at the Nepal-Tibet border. The SMC asked landslide, river, and glacier experts to comment.

There are a growing number of very technical people — particularly at places like MATS, Apollo, DeepMind — who care a lot about AI going well. There are also a growing number of founders building with AI who want to build important things. Despite some examples like Goodfire (valued at $1.25B and backed by Menlo […]

Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it […]