Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer
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- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage exploded across 5 distinct news outlets with 6 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 3.
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"Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer" is generating significant coverage in the World category, with 5 articles from 4 distinct sources tracked by Archynetys so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include TheStreet, NDTV, The Next Web and Yahoo Finance. Archynetys measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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The reporting (6)
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Palantir’s Pentagon role reveals a surprising edgeTheStreet · 21h ago
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AI researchers are taking up smoking for bizarre reason, tech exec claimsNew York Post · 1d ago
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Palantir’s answer to a deadly targeting failure was more AITheStreet · 1d ago
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Palantir’s Shyam Sankar says the Pentagon has replaced Anthropic’s AIThe Next Web · 1d ago
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