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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is reportedly planning to launch a new AI lab, a significant pivot for a company that has deliberately stayed on the sidelines of the large language model race. Chesky said last year that existing AI products simply weren't ready for a partnership. It seems his patience may finally be running out.
Meanwhile, over at Microsoft, Satya Nadella is doing some very public distancing from an internal strategy document that described the company's goal as making users, quote, addicted to its new AI assistant Scout. Nadella told staff he wasn't sure what the document was or who wrote it. Someone at Microsoft knows, and so far they're not saying.
And on the broader question of where all this is heading, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark is sounding a clear alarm. Speaking to the BBC, Clark warned that AI could soon reach a point where it develops without meaningful human input, and argued the industry needs what he called a brake pedal before that moment arrives. It's a striking warning from someone building the very thing he's cautioning against.
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