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King of Cannibal Island

John Lanchester: Will the AI bubble burst?, 25 December 2025

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip 
by Stephen Witt.
Bodley Head, 248 pp., £25, April, 978 1 84792 827 6
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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant 
by Tae Kim.
Norton, 261 pp., £25, December 2024, 978 1 324 08671 0
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Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination 
by Karen Hao.
Allen Lane, 482 pp., £25, May, 978 0 241 67892 3
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World 
by Parmy Olson.
Pan Macmillan, 319 pp., £10.99, July, 978 1 0350 3824 4
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... equivocal. She makes Graham’s remark sound light-hearted, joshing and essentially complimentary. Karen Hao’s much more sceptical Empire of AI makes Graham’s words illustrative of an unprincipled ambition so intense it has a tinge of sociopathy. This duality of perspectives runs through Altman’s story. At almost every point, it is possible to see ...

The Future of Search

Donald MacKenzie: Will we still google it?, 20 November 2025

... OpenAI had been using for language processing. The Transformer, in other words, should scale. As Karen Hao reports in Empire of AI, Sutskever started ‘evangelising’ for it within OpenAI, but met with some scepticism: ‘It felt like a wack idea,’ one of his OpenAI colleagues told ...

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