|
June 20, 2024, 2:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Safe Superintelligence Inc.: |
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.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Register, The Crypto Times, The Verge, Tech in Asia, PYMNTS.com, Daring Fireball, BetaKit, Cryptopolitan, Maginative, Decrypt, Financial Times, Cointelegraph, TIME, AIM, The Decoder, On my Om, Neowin, The Information, CNBC, and Constellation Research
Bluesky: @brianckeegan.com, @ernie.tedium.co, @marypcbuk.bsky.social, and @niedermeyer.io
X: @ilyasut, @ssi, @ilyasut, @emostaque, @autismcapital, @garrisonlovely, @danielgross, @abidlabs, @packym, @zerohedge, @liron, @daniellevy__, @pitdesi, @pdhsu, @aravsrinivas, @alexlangshur, @mgsiegler, @nathanpmyoung, @emostaque, and @rustybrick. LinkedIn: Marcel Salathé
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MachineLearning, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Transformer, Spyglass, CryptoSlate, Proactive, New York Times, and Axios
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and r/mlscaling
| 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 …
More: CNN, Bloomberg, Cyber Daily, Benzinga, CBS News, Diario AS, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| Lucy Adams / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based C12, which is developing a carbon nanotube-based quantum computer, raised €18M led by Varsity, EIC, and Verve, after raising a ~€9M seed in 2021 — C12 aims to have two French-designed prototypes of universal quantum computers by 2032.
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Quantum Insider, and Sifted
| 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
More: ExtremeTech and WinBuzzer
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
More: BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, The Cyber Express, HotHardware, OC3D, Guru3D, Fortune, iTnews, iTech Post, PC Gamer, Security Affairs, Wccftech, CSO, SC Media, TweakTown, SecurityWeek, Cyber Daily, TechRadar, Reuters, PCMag, The Register, TechPowerUp, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, The Verge, and Hackread
Forums: r/Amd and r/AMD_Stock
| Wired: |
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites — A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
More: Robb Knight, The Overspill, The Daily Upside, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Pixel Envy, and Axios
Threads: @david_warshaw, @crumbler, @johnkoetsier, @technicallymims, @noahshachtman, @bernie_michalik, and @benedictevans
Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …, @klingebeil@newsie.social, @knowprose@mastodon.social, @clive@saturation.social, @robb@social.lol, @johnvoorhees@mastodon …, @LeftistLawyer@kolektiva …, @mttaggart@infosec.town, and @howelloneill@infosec.exchange
Bluesky: @timmarchman.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social, and @timmarchman.bsky.social
X: @tomseymour, @jessicalessin, @carnage4life, @olifranklin, @stokel, @dmehro, and @katiedrumm
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/cybersecurity
| 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 …
More: CRD, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and San Francisco Chronicle
X: @kimzetter, @calcivilrights, and @suhaunah
| 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| The Information: |
China's top-valued AI startup, Moonshot AI, recently debuted a role-play chat app and music maker app in the US; Chinese rival MiniMax also expanded to the US — Chinese tech companies are facing more scrutiny in the U.S. than ever before. Yet some of China's artificial intelligence startups are making a rush to grab U.S. customers.
X: @juroosawa
| 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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Nvidia's 591,078% rise since its IPO in 1999; long-time investors in Nvidia have had to stomach three annual collapses of 50% or more in the stock — - Company topped Microsoft in market cap after historic run — Computer gaming and data centers paved the way for AI success
More: Bloomberg, Boing Boing, Watcher Guru, The i Paper, Wall Street Journal, and Decrypt
| The Information: |
More: Runtime, Yahoo Finance, GSMArena.com, Sky News, WinBuzzer, and GreekReporter.com
X: @amir, @anissagardizy8, @anitaramaswamy, @steph_palazzolo, and @amir
| 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.| Adam Zewe / MIT News: |
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77 — The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
More: Stories from my life and mjtsai.com
Mastodon: @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz. X: @sheerpriya, @benadida, @om, @satnam6502, @kvsarmaj, and @dheerajsanghi
LinkedIn: J. Nelson Amaral, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Michael Taylor, Margaret Martonosi, and Nanditha Rao. Forums: Hacker News
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
At Augmented World Expo, Palmer Luckey says he's building a new headset “driven by military requirements” that will also be used for “non-military stuff” — Luckey also mentioned “adult entertainment” could be the most promising VR hardware niche for a small company, since mainstream companies won't touch it.
More: Road to VR. X: @mrjnowlin, @mrjnowlin, @taronium_, @benz145, @palmerluckey, @anshelsag, and @kylebrussell
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 11/15 - Crypto Ascendant
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:05 AM ET, June 20, 2024.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Michael Gold / New York Times:John Koblin / New York Times:
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
More: Game Developer, Another Axiom, MIXED Reality News, VentureBeat, and UploadVR
X: @id_aa_carmack, @vrjsy, @id_aa_carmack, @joelmartinez, and @nathievr
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: PCMag, Daring Fireball, SamMobile, Windows Central, Android Headlines, TechPowerUp, and Digital Trends
Threads: @kylealden and @kylealden
| Michael McGrady Jr / AVN Industry News: |
More: Engadget, The Verge, 404 Media, Indiana Capital Chronicle, PCMag, Louisville Public Media, Boing Boing, and Mashable. Forums: Slashdot
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Earlier Picks
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: WinBuzzer, Hackster.io, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Notebookcheck, Framework Blog, OSnews, Liliputing, and Phoronix
Mastodon: @markjamesadams@genomic.social, @drsbaitso@infosec.exchange, @JamieMagee@infosec.exchange, @Rusty@cubhub.social, and @trevorflowers@widerweb.org
X: @frameworkputer and @deepcomputingio
Forums: r/linuxhardware, r/RISCV, and r/linux
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
More: Dexerto, TechEBlog, Benzinga, Dallas Morning News, Netflix Tudum, Dallas Innovates, The Verge, BGR, Deadline, Quartz, PCMag, Spyglass, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @carnage4life, @theashleyray, @netflix, and @coreyatad
Forums: r/blankies, r/boxoffice, r/entertainment, r/Fauxmoi, r/popculturechat, and r/philadelphia
| Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt: |
More: Consensys, Finbold, The Crypto Basic, Unchained, Inside Bitcoins, Bloomberg, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, CCN.com, Forkast, Nairametrics, Crowdfund Insider, ZyCrypto, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Bankless Times, Blockworks, Milk Road, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, crypto.news, CoinJournal, Coinspeaker, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, The Block, Benzinga, The Crypto Times, and CryptoGlobe
X: @consensys, @consensys, @zerohedge, @sgjohnsson, @mdudas, @nategeraci, @chainlinkgod, @sassal0x, @adamscochran, @entethalliance, @hal2001, @gavinmclelland, @1ndi60, @laurashin, @bhdecker, @consensys, @elliotrades, and @sizechad. Forums: r/ethtrader
| Reuters: |
More: TechCrunch, The Record, KEYE, MediaPost, Daily Nigerian, Federal Trade Commission, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Mashable, BERNAMA, BBC, Tech Xplore, Gizmodo, Inc.com, Android Headlines, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox Business, Financial Times, Barron's Online, LAW.com, The Information, The Hollywood Reporter, Politico, Yahoo Finance, Digital Music News, Anadolu Ajansı …, Semafor, Variety, Sherwood News, The Verge, and Bloomberg Law
Threads: @kevincolliernbc. X: @tiktokpolicy, @linakhanftc, @kevincollier, @julesaroscoe, @ebakerwhite, @jenn_elias, @swiftstories, and @linakhanftc