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Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was
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| Greg Brockman / @gdb: |
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more — We're really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns — Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says focus will be on transparency after media and arts executives voiced concern
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About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link — 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later — Table of Contents Table of Contents
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| Politico: |
A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links — LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience.
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| Renee DiResta / The Guardian: |
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal — Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR's CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing — Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there's plenty more disruption to come.
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| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill — State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024 — Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud| The Guardian: |
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut — News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91 — He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment — It's a $2 trillion company today. It wouldn't exist without someone known as Irimajiri-san. — Before it was one of the world's …
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