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OpenAI announces Sam Altman will rejoin its board of directors, alongside three new members: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo — Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo join; Sam Altman rejoins board — We're announcing three new members to our Board …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
An independent investigation commissioned by OpenAI has found that Sam Altman's conduct before his ouster “did not mandate removal” — An independent investigation found that the circumstances surrounding last fall's failed coup ‘did not mandate removal.’
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| Simon Willison's Weblog: |
The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI's model — Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”.
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| Sophia Cai / Axios: |
A look at Trump's TikTok flip-flop, as he recognizes the app's appeal to younger voters and repairs his relation with ByteDance investor and GOP donor Jeff Yass — I don't want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!" Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interviews with Garry Tan, Paul Graham, YC partners, and others about Tan reshaping YC in a “return to roots”, as some founders complain about politicization — Former venture capitalist Garry Tan has slashed programs and turned up the mics in a bid to restore …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Klarna co-founder Victor Jacobsson, who left in 2012 and owns ~4% directly, may have an 8%+ stake via special purpose vehicles ahead of an expected IPO — Jacobsson used right of first refusal to buy Klarna stock and used veto rights to exercise influence despite leaving in 2012| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Over 100 scientists sign an agreement that seeks to prevent their AI-aided research for designing new proteins from being used for the development of bioweapons — An agreement by more than 90 said, however, that artificial intelligence's benefit to the field of biology would exceed any potential harm.
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Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Bruce Haring / Deadline: |
Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 by Soul Machines and Authentic Brands Group, was unveiled at SXSW — One of Marilyn Monroe's most famous quotes was, “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Experts say the weakening of LockBit and BlackCat marks a significant milestone in efforts to thwart cybercriminals, but ransomware hackers are not going away — - LockBit and BlackCat thrived using ransomware as service model — Law enforcement seized websites belong to both hacking groups
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Source: X plans to launch a TV app, which looks “identical” to YouTube's TV app, for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs next week — In a bid to compete with YouTube and recast itself as a video platform, Elon Musk's X is launching a television app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs, a source at the company told Fortune.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
About 600 Activision QA workers form a union with help from the CWA, becoming the largest video game union in the US; Microsoft voluntarily recognized the union — Around 600 workers in Activision Publishing's quality assurance department have formed a union.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Jason Palmer, who beat Joe Biden in American Samoa's Democratic caucus, used AI-generated texts, emails, and an avatar to communicate with voters — Jason Palmer, a self-proclaimed ‘long-shot candidate’ vying for the presidency, uses AI generated texts, emails and an avatar to communicate with votersSponsor Posts
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