One of the fathers of cyberpunk said that “tech bros” are constantly thanking him for the inspiration.

For context, Gibson wrote about the abuse of technology and corporations controlling the world instead of governments.

Now Silicon Valley CEOs see his books as a utopia.

It’s about to get harder for IT workers to move to the US: Microsoft, Adobe and several other Big Tech companies have been barred from hiring foreign nationals through the green card program.

The US Department of Labor will halt the processing of all existing and new applications. And employees of these companies on H-1B visas will now simply be denied US work-based permanent residency.

Next, the White House wants to go after foreign nationals at Harvard, Yale and Stanford.

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Bill Gates has warned of the risk of mass AI cyberattacks as early as 2027. According to him, “we’re in for a lot of unpleasant surprises.”

A few more quotes from the Microsoft founder’s recent CNN interview:

There will be grim consequences if we don’t maintain control

Over the next year, we’ll go beyond
self-governance

Obviously, we’re not doing enough

Well then.

AI developers are taking up smoking—all because they believe AI will cure cancer, says Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar.

Many AI researchers have started smoking to show their colleagues just how much they believe in AI. So they’re putting everything on the line

Sankar didn’t name any specific people or figures. Maybe it’s still too early to believe in AI that much.