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June 20, 2024, 7:35 AM

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Safe Superintelligence Inc.:
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
More: TheCable
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.
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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