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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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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.| Benjamin Sandofsky / Sandofsky: |
A history of the Lambda School: burning through $120M, why income share agreements failed, how one developer turned journalist ended the fraud, and more — Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: … Austen co-founded Lambda School, one of the largest educational startups of all time.
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| Washington Post: |
An investigation details how Chinese gangs, Chinese officials, and Myanmar's Junta made Myanmar's Kokang region a key hub in the global online scam industry — For the scion of a crime family linked to human trafficking and enslavement, money laundering and global cyberscams, Wei Qingtao was brazenly public.
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
TikTok launches an in-app experience to celebrate Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, giving prizes to users who complete 11 weeks of tasks, following Instagram in April — The app is the latest social platform to build a custom experience for the star. — You already knew Taylor Swift …
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