In honor of the UK cover reveal of EMPIRE OF AI, I’ll tell you a secret: When thinking about how to structure my book, I drew heavy inspiration from the Netflix series The Crown. 1/ (Out May 20, pre-order here: http://
empireofai.com.)
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Empire of AI UK Cover Reveal: The Crown Inspiration Behind Book Structure
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Empire of AI Pre-Order Links Available for US and UK
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Already available! All pre-order links for the US edition here: https://
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…; for the UK edition here: https://
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Karen Hao announces new AI book Empire of AI based on interviews
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The unnamed book EMPIRE OF AI is mine, based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, & my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order: http://
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Book Pre-order and US UK Tour Announcement
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The pre-order link for the US and UK editions are at http://
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Karen Hao’s New Book Receives Praise from Leading Experts
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This book is the hardest and most important thing I've ever worked on. I’m deeply grateful to @DAcemogluMIT
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OpenAI’s Capital Raising Masks Technical and Commercial Weaknesses
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We’re basically seeing this again. OpenAI with Sam Altman is so good at raising capital (incl. now from Softbank) that it's covering up the company’s technical & commercial weaknesses. See also this excellent @AINowInstitute report from @bcmerchant
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DeepSeek’s Innovation Through Constraints and AI Development Alternatives
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DeepSeek is the flip side of the same coin: It innovated because of, not in spite of, its constraints. And now that it has upended the assumptions of the dominant AI paradigm, we should reject its costly trade-offs and seek new ways to develop AI without so many harms. 24/
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Cash masks foundation problems until innovation necessity vanishes
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They could mask all of the shakiness in their foundations with the hilariously large infusions of cash for quite a while — but eventually everything would topple. Necessity is the mother of innovation. Without necessity, the existential drive to innovate disappears. 22/
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Company AI Model Development Innovation as Critical Capability
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And if a company does not make this pivot, that should be a major red flag for its capacity to innovate. And I don’t mean product innovation but innovation on how to develop AI models. The base of the stack. 20/