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Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, an American company “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence” — Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more — OpenAI's co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence.
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
EU diplomats: a scheduled EU Council vote to amend a draft law that may force WhatsApp and Signal to scan images and links for CSAM was removed from the agenda — Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD says hackers accessed limited information related to assembling of certain AMD products on a third-party vendor site and expects no material business impact — - Investigation showed limited information accessed by intruder — Chipmaker said the data was accessed on a third-party site
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple held talks with Baidu, Alibaba, Baichuan AI, and others to help offer Apple Intelligence in China, as ChatGPT isn't available in the country — ChatGPT isn't available in China, prompting Apple to seek local partner for its artificial-intelligence services| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
CDK Global, which provides SaaS tools for over 15,000 car dealerships in North America, shuts down most of its systems following a cyberattack — Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Software vendors like Salesforce are getting left behind in the AI boom, as most AI spending at this point is going toward hardware or cloud infrastructure — Every day in my email inbox, there's another press release from a tech company launching a generative artificial intelligence feature.
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| Lara Korte / Politico: |
Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment — Women who worked for the company in the last decade may be eligible for compensation. — SACRAMENTO, California …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Accel and Dealroom: out of 221 generative AI startups in Europe and Israel, 27% were created in London, 13% in Tel Aviv, 12% in Berlin, and 10% in Paris — Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence - especially generative AI - is the technology story of 2024.
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| Murad Ahmed / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Meta Oversight Board co-chair Helle-Thorning Schmidt on AI deepfakes, Meta rejecting the board's decision on former Cambodian PM Hun Sen, and more — The former Danish PM says her panel's decisions have helped the social media giant grow up — and that other platforms should use its services
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| Maureen Tkacik / American Prospect: |
A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US — RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.
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| TechCrunch: |
Kenya ends a year-long investigation into Worldcoin with “no further police action” and says the startup must register its business, acquire licenses, and more — Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning …
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