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OpenAI creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore AI risks and begins training its new flagship AI model, which won't arrive for at least nine months — The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.'s risks.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
In a podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board learned of ChatGPT's launch on Twitter, criticizes Sam Altman's leadership on safety, more — - Helen Toner spoke about Sam Altman's firing in a new podcast — Toner has called for more regulation around AI safety
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| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal API documentation for Google Search, some of which appear to contradict Google's public statements — On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's Playables, a collection of over 75 free games available on mobile and desktop, rolls out to all users — YouTube's “app store” for games is rolling out more broadly. The company announced on Tuesday that its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables” …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023 — - Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges last year.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X — Yann LeCun and Elon Musk got into it on X this weekend, exposing key disagreements on AI risks dividing the tech world.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new “superalignment” team — Jan Leike, a leading AI researcher who earlier this month resigned from OpenAI before publicly criticizing the company's approach to AI safety, has joined OpenAI rival Anthropic to lead a new “superalignment” team.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils new AI features for Chromebook Plus devices, including Gemini, and says new Chromebook Plus owners will get a free year of Google One AI Premium — Google announced new AI-powered features today for its Chromebook Plus line of devices, such as a writing assistant …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass; Activision typically sells 20M+ copies of a COD game — “We're excited to confirm that Game Pass members will be able to jump into Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on day one with Game Pass …
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| CNBC: |
T-Mobile plans to acquire most of UScellular, including its stores, some of its spectrum assets, and its customers, in a $4.4B deal, including up to $2B of debt — Shares of U.S. Cellular popped nearly 6% Tuesday after T-Mobile announced that it plans to acquire most of the company …
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal plans to build an ad sales business around data generated from its users' spending behaviors, and hires ex-Uber ad boss Mark Grether as its SVP of Ads — Payments company hires Uber's former head of advertising to run a new ad division — PayPal hopes to boost its growth by starting …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
A US appeals court sets a fast-track schedule to consider legal challenges to the US law requiring a TikTok sale or ban, with oral arguments in September 2024 — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance …
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