Google Hired Her to Find AI’s Harms. When She Found Them, They Pushed Her Out — and the Numbers She Measured Are Still True.
Timnit Gebru turned “AI is biased” from a worry into a measurement — proving commercial facial recognition misread darker-skinned women 34.7% of the time, versus under 1% for lighter-skinned men. When she warned that today’s AI language models carry the same flaw at far greater scale, her career at Google ended in a public rupture: she says she was fired, Google says she resigned. She built her own research institute and kept measuring. The numbers haven’t changed.
Qatar Gave the Plane. Nuclear-Missile Money Helped Pay to Fly It.
Qatar gave the US a Boeing 747-8 to serve — for now — as Air Force One. The Air Force converted it using money pulled from the Sentinel nuclear-missile program, and when Trump leaves office the jet is set to go to his presidential library foundation, no later than January 1, 2029.