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OpenAI creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore AI risks and begins training its new flagship AI model, which won't arrive for at least nine months — The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.'s risks.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technews, r/technology, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils new AI features for Chromebook Plus devices, including Gemini, and says new Chromebook Plus owners will get a free year of Google One AI Premium — Google announced new AI-powered features today for its Chromebook Plus line of devices, such as a writing assistant …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X — Yann LeCun and Elon Musk got into it on X this weekend, exposing key disagreements on AI risks dividing the tech world.
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T-Mobile plans to acquire most of UScellular, including its stores, some of its spectrum assets, and its customers, in a $4.4B deal, including up to $2B of debt — Shares of U.S. Cellular popped nearly 6% Tuesday after T-Mobile announced that it plans to acquire most of the company …
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X: @tmobilenews. Forums: Hacker News, r/NoContract, r/USCellular, r/technology, and r/wallstreetbets
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023 — - Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges last year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass; Activision typically sells 20M+ copies of a COD game — “We're excited to confirm that Game Pass members will be able to jump into Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on day one with Game Pass …
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X: @economyapp, @xbox, and @charlieintel
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/VideoGameDealsCanada, r/gaming, r/PS5, r/XboxGamePass, r/BlackOps6Game, and r/Games
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's Playables, a collection of over 75 free games available on mobile and desktop, rolls out to all users — YouTube's “app store” for games is rolling out more broadly. The company announced on Tuesday that its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables” … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new “superalignment” team — Jan Leike, a leading AI researcher who earlier this month resigned from OpenAI before publicly criticizing the company's approach to AI safety, has joined OpenAI rival Anthropic to lead a new “superalignment” team.
More: Los Angeles Times, The Verge, Axios, The Information, Bloomberg, GovInfoSecurity.com, Security Boulevard, Quartz, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, CNBC, Coinspeaker, and Benzinga. X: @janleike
| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal API documentation for Google Search, some of which appear to contradict Google's public statements — On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
More: The Verge, iPullRank, Search Engine Journal, MarTech, WinBuzzer, Search Engine Roundtable, and Techaeris
Threads: @reckless1280. X: @filiwiese, @brodieseo, @youderian, @javier_dev, @miarsato, @amandanat, @megangra, @ipullrank, and @randfish. Forums: Hacker News
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal plans to build an ad sales business around data generated from its users' spending behaviors, and hires ex-Uber ad boss Mark Grether as its SVP of Ads — Payments company hires Uber's former head of advertising to run a new ad division — PayPal hopes to boost its growth by starting … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which collapsed in 2014, moves 140K+ bitcoin, worth ~$9B, to an unknown address, likely as part of a plan to repay creditors — Nearly 107,000 bitcoin have been moved since early Asian hours on Tuesday, with bitcoin shedding 1.2% on expectations of selling pressure.
More: Inside Bitcoins, The Block, The Daily Hodl, Milk Road, Invezz, Quartz, Protos, ZyCrypto, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, Decrypt, Finbold, CryptoGlobe, Unchained, Coinspeaker, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoSlate, Blockonomi, CoinJournal, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, Bloomberg, and Crypto Briefing
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
HubSpot shares jump 8%+ after CNBC's David Faber reported that Alphabet is in talks about an all-stock bid for the company — HubSpot shares rallied 9% on Tuesday after CNBC's David Faber reported that Alphabet is looking at an all-stock offer for the software company.Sponsor Posts
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