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AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec

Tech | 2026-10-13 at 17:37 UTC | Source: decrypt.co
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.
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