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A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI but wanted the power to shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+ — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain.
More: Computerworld, The Overspill, and The Information
Threads: @laurengoode. Bluesky: @martinsfp.bsky.social. X: @jason, @ryancareyai, @halvarflake, @dseetharaman, @silvermanjacob, @garymarcus, and @estill01. LinkedIn: Jim Fan
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and r/singularity
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Spotify plans to lay off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, after cutting 6% in June, citing slow growth and rising capital costs — Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
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| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers — A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech …
Threads: @craignewmark. Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art, @trent@eigenmagic.net, @anand@mastodon.sdf.org, @thatandromeda@ohai.social, @theADHDAcademic …, and @craignewmark@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @audhdylan.bsky.social
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Internal memo: ByteDance plans to release a “bot development platform” in beta by the end of December, to let users create their own AI chatbots — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is working on an open platform that will allow users to create their own chatbots …
More: Tech in Asia, The Decoder, and Analytics India Magazine
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.
More: AppleInsider, iMore, PhoneArena, Wccftech, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PYMNTS.com, and Patently Apple
X: @philsolis and @markgurman
Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/AppleCard, and r/apple
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Researchers show AI misalignment in a GPT-4-based stock trading bot that performed insider trading in a simulated environment without being instructed to do so — Also OpenAI's board, kangaroo grazing and bank box-checking. — AI MNPI — Here you go, insider trading robot:
More: arXiv and Schneier on Security
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin trades above $40K for the first time since May 2022, as the digital asset extends its 2023 rebound on expectations of interest-rate cuts and ETF demand — - Anticipation builds that the US will allow spot Bitcoin ETFs — Crypto benefiting from conviction that Fed will cut rates
More: CryptoGlobe, Watcher Guru, Bitcoinist.com, Financial Times, Cryptonews, and CoinDesk
X: @alifarhat79, @mikealfred, and @chrisjbakke
| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Kiss' three current members reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by Pophouse and George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the rock band stops live touring — On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.
More: Pophouse, The Verge, Notebookcheck, Digital Music News, PCMag, Engadget, Digital Trends, Billboard, Bloomberg, BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Associated Press, Fast Company, and The Hollywood Reporter
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Forums: r/entertainment, r/RedLetterMedia, and r/news
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says the LLM doesn't reliably handle some non-English queries — Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
More: Business Insider, 9to5Google, Analytics India Magazine, Engadget, SamMobile, MSPoweruser, and The Decoder
X: @0xkarmatic, @mark_k, @killedbygoogle, @sebastiannehrd2, @bindureddy, @dimillian, @bertrandduflos, @killedbygoogle, and @jon_victor_
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/technology, and r/singularity
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, closed a minority stake sale to investors led by Fidelity; sources say the sale values the startup at $7B — - IMCO, JPMorgan Asset Management, Zoom Ventures bet on startup — Nvidia, Magnetar Capital are among its existing investors
More: SiliconANGLE and New.blicio.us
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
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