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May 8, 2023, 6:00 AM

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David Ingram / NBC News:
Steve Mollman / Fortune:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …
Wall Street Journal:
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba use to develop AI systems without the latest chips  —  Research in China on workarounds, such as using software to leverage less powerful chips, is accelerating
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images  —  Graphic images of the attack went viral on the platform, which has made cuts to its moderation team.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product Officer Tyler Whitworth on building Max from the ground up, new features, and more  —  A few weeks before Warner Bros. Discovery launches its new HBO Max/Discovery+ streaming service, Max, TechCrunch spoke …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit  —  A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware  —  Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen.
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:
The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to August 13, 2023, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs  —  Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people

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