Dossier
AI superintelligence
Coverage of AI superintelligence in the Nexus archive.
- Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
Meta's Quest VR headsets will see a $50–$100 price increase due to rising component costs, particularly memory chips, driven by the company's aggressive AI infrastructure investments. Meta's $115–$135 billion capital expenditure plan, including $21 billion in CoreWeave and a $10 billion El Paso data center expansion, has exacerbated chip shortages.
- Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, outlines a comprehensive blueprint for AI governance, emphasizing urgent regulatory and tax reforms to address risks like cyberattacks and biological threats. The proposal includes a Public Wealth Fund, robot taxes, and AI access rights, comparing the need for action to historical social contracts like the New Deal.