Cristina Criddle
@criddle.bsky.social
Writing about AI for the Financial Times in San Francisco — 📧 Cristina.criddle@ft.com 📱 signal - @criddle.67
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"NVIDIA POISED FOR $100BN DEAL TO TAKE BIG OPENAI STAKE"
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@criddle.bsky.social / @georgehammond.bsky.social / @timbradshaw.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com
It'll support build-out of #DataCentres for #ArtificialIntelligence.
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@criddle.bsky.social / @georgehammond.bsky.social / @timbradshaw.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com
It'll support build-out of #DataCentres for #ArtificialIntelligence.
#FinancialTimes
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"NVIDIA POISED FOR $100BN DEAL TO TAKE BIG OPENAI STAKE"
Full Story: t.ly/IBKEB
@criddle.bsky.social / @georgehammond.bsky.social / @timbradshaw.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com
It'll support build-out of #DataCentres for #ArtificialIntelligence.
#FinancialTimes
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS
Full Story: t.ly/IBKEB
@criddle.bsky.social / @georgehammond.bsky.social / @timbradshaw.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com
It'll support build-out of #DataCentres for #ArtificialIntelligence.
#FinancialTimes
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS
NEW: I had lunch with godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto. 🍽️ We chatted about how to design systems to be like our mothers, existential risk and how ChatGPT told him he was “a rat” in his breakup
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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip us
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September 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NEW: I had lunch with godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto. 🍽️ We chatted about how to design systems to be like our mothers, existential risk and how ChatGPT told him he was “a rat” in his breakup
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Chatbots in the classroom: how #AI is reshaping higher education
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Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education
While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products
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July 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Chatbots in the classroom: how #AI is reshaping higher education
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NEW: Amazon is discussing plans to invest billions more into AI start-up Anthropic as it tries to position itself ahead of Google and capitalise on Microsoft’s fraying OpenAI relationship.
Story with @criddle.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
Story with @criddle.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to deepen AI alliance https://on.ft.com/44DBJ9n
Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to deepen AI alliance
The tech groups are increasingly tied to each other and act as a bulwark to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
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July 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
NEW: Amazon is discussing plans to invest billions more into AI start-up Anthropic as it tries to position itself ahead of Google and capitalise on Microsoft’s fraying OpenAI relationship.
Story with @criddle.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
Story with @criddle.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
Amazon is weighing another multi-billion-dollar investment in Anthropic
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...
July 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Amazon is weighing another multi-billion-dollar investment in Anthropic
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X
[FREE TO READ] Incident follows the xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions
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July 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X
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OpenAI has upped its security:
🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1
🛜 systems kept offline by default
fingerprint scanning for access
🪪 more data centre physical security
✔️ new hiring checks
W/@tabbykinder.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/f896...
🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1
🛜 systems kept offline by default
fingerprint scanning for access
🪪 more data centre physical security
✔️ new hiring checks
W/@tabbykinder.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/f896...
OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats
Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data
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July 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
OpenAI has upped its security:
🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1
🛜 systems kept offline by default
fingerprint scanning for access
🪪 more data centre physical security
✔️ new hiring checks
W/@tabbykinder.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/f896...
🍓 keeping staff in “tents” based on projects ie a ‘strawberry tent’ for o1
🛜 systems kept offline by default
fingerprint scanning for access
🪪 more data centre physical security
✔️ new hiring checks
W/@tabbykinder.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/f896...
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The world’s leading AI groups are struggling to force AI models to accurately show how they operate, an issue experts have said will be crucial to keeping the powerful systems in check - rpt by @criddle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b349...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The world’s leading AI groups are struggling to force AI models to accurately show how they operate, an issue experts have said will be crucial to keeping the powerful systems in check - rpt by @criddle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b349...
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EXC: Microsoft has considered walking away from talks with OpenAI over the future of their partnership, instead sitting on a favourable contract that runs until 2030.
Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
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Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
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Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks
[FREE TO READ] ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans
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June 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
EXC: Microsoft has considered walking away from talks with OpenAI over the future of their partnership, instead sitting on a favourable contract that runs until 2030.
Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
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Story from @criddle.bsky.social, @tabbykinder.bsky.social and @georgehammond.bsky.social
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“If we build AIs that are smarter than us and are not aligned with us and compete with us, then we’re basically cooked,” @yoshuabengio.bsky.social tells the @financialtimes.com @criddle.bsky.social as he launches a non-profit LawZero to build safer systems
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‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users
[FREE TO READ] Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI
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June 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“If we build AIs that are smarter than us and are not aligned with us and compete with us, then we’re basically cooked,” @yoshuabengio.bsky.social tells the @financialtimes.com @criddle.bsky.social as he launches a non-profit LawZero to build safer systems
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