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| Jan Leike / @janleike: |
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years — Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
More: The Verge, Vox, Fast Company, Financial Times, Associated Press, The Information, Business Insider, Axios, and The Decoder
Threads: @moskov. X: @sama, @_ali_taylor, @ai_for_success, @janleike, @garymarcus, @futuristflower, @sigalsamuel, @smokeawayyy, @basedbeffjezos, @tegmark, @forgebitz, @bitcloud, @pandaashwinee, @kantrowitz, @mihonarium, and @janleike. Forums: r/slatestarcodex
| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don't sign it lose all vested equity — Why is OpenAI's superalignment team imploding? — Editor's note, May 17, 2024, 11:20 pm ET: This story has been updated …
More: Benzinga. Threads: @paul_rietschka. Mastodon: @matunos@mastodon.social. X: @kelseytuoc, @soumithchintala, @jmannhart, @fchollet, @kelseytuoc, @s_oheigeartaigh, @s_oheigeartaigh, @kelseytuoc, @gergelyorosz, @kelseytuoc, @robbensinger, @mattbruenig, @kelseytuoc, @neelnanda5, @seyitaylor, @soumithchintala, @argleave, @s_oheigeartaigh, @s_oheigeartaigh, @garymarcus, @krishnanrohit, @kelseytuoc, @kelseytuoc, @emostaque, @elonmusk, and @brendengallager
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
More: Bloomberg, Engadget, CNBC, Business Insider, VentureBeat, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, Benzinga, Decrypt, Quartz, Wccftech, PCMag, Gizmodo, and Fortune
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LinkedIn: Stephanie Wilkins and Georg Zoeller
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/ControlProblem, r/Futurology, and r/OpenAI
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X — Apple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone that could be released as early as 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, Neowin, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, TipRanks Financial, GSMArena.com, Business Insider, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, Business Times, The Verge, NewsBytes, Macworld, Engadget, PhoneArena, BGR, Benzinga, iDownloadBlog.com, Supercharged, and AppleInsider
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The US SEC will require some financial institutions to notify customers whose personal information was compromised within 30 days of learning about breaches — Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness. — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
More: US Securities …, GovInfoSecurity.com, BleepingComputer, and Dark Reading
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models — The Scoop — Preparing for a time when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can pose a serious, immediate threat to people … | Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
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X: @charlieintel, @everbornsaga, @jeffgrubb, @saraheneedleman, @deeketweak, @stephentotilo, @rgt_85, @romudeth, @tomwarren, and @charlieintel
Forums: r/XboxSeriesX, r/pcgaming, r/xbox, r/gamernews, r/gamingnews, r/CallOfDuty, and r/technology
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller told a US judge that Apple's new 27% fee on purchases made outside its App Store are a good-faith attempt to comply with the law — - Top Apple executive took stand Friday to defend new fee — Epic Games has challenged Apple proposed antitrust remedy
More: Reuters. X: @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
| Astha Rajvanshi / TIME: |
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116 — Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders … | Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
A US judge approves Genesis Global Capital's Chapter 11 repayment plan to return Bitcoin and other tokens to creditors, defeating a challenge by its parent DCG — - Genesis defeated a challenge by parent Digital Currency Group — Judge also approved a related settlement with the New York AG
More: CoinGape, Reuters, and The Crypto Times
| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Photo editing and sharing app VSCO says it is now profitable, has a user base of 200M worldwide, and has 160K subscribers for its $59.99/year Pro product — - The photo sharing app wants to move on from ‘VSCO Girl’ meme — VSCO is also launching a new creator hub for influencers| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Some researchers say GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning — Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice something seemed off about this newest version of the chatbot …
X: @radiatoryang, @tianle_cai, and @zeyiyang
| Brendan O'Boyle / Reuters: |
The US DOJ charges two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a crypto pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73M from defrauded victims — U.S. authorities charged two Chinese nationals in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from defrauded victims, the Justice Department said on Friday.| Politico: |
Critics warn the French government's first-of-its-kind move within the EU to suspend TikTok in New Caledonia amid widespread protests sets a dangerous precedent — An unexpected and drastic measure to cut off access to the app in New Caledonia marks an EU first.
More: Gizmodo, TechRadar, Le Monde.fr, RTÉ, Boing Boing, and Euronews
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference — - Company declined to disclose specific reason for departures — Murthy presented at Expedia's annual conference this weekSponsor Posts
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