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In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
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Bluesky: @raphae.li and @nashgrey
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack — The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack. … Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face …
More: Tech Times and New York Times
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout — OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
More: Collusion.wiki, Ars Technica, Reuters, TechCrunch, Simon Willison's Weblog, CTech, Forkast, Mashable, Digital Trends, Techstrong.ai, The Register, BBC, The Hacker News, WinBuzzer, StrictlyVC, CNBC, The Hans India, Digit, Livemint, The Neuron, NBC News, The Asia Business Daily, Forbes Middle East, Washington Post, MobileSyrup, Futurism, Unite.AI, NewsCord, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Engadget, The Decoder, New York Times, Tech Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cyber Security News, Nairametrics, New York Times, and Politico
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Bluesky: @tautologer.com, @seldo.com, and @esqueer.net
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @techwire@social.gamefan.net
| Miranda Murray / Reuters: |
Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans — Berlin's state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Times, The Hans India, Digit, Unite.AI, and Reuters
| ABC News: |
Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” — In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies. — Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart| Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal: |
Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas — AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation
Bluesky: @tcarmody
| Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
More: Unite.AI. X: @restofworld, @restofworld, and @counternotions. LinkedIn: Sunil Nair. Bluesky: @restofworld.org
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
More: Risky Business, SC Media, Cyber Security News, The Register, Cyber Security News, The New Stack, Risky Business, and The Hacker News
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale — John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more — Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
More: Noahpinion and Bloomberg Podcasts on YouTube
X: @kaifulee, @kaifulee, @mishalhusain, @mishalhusain, @mishalhusain, @mishalhusain, and @business. LinkedIn: Kai-Fu Lee
Forums: r/China and r/Futurology
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia — The United States and United Kingdom will work together on an initiative to shut down scam centers stealing billions of dollars through investment and romance fraud schemes.| Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews: |
Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity — The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory — The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
More: Tom's Hardware, Windows Blog, Neowin, TechRepublic, Digital Trends, PCMag, TechSpot, How-To Geek, MakeUseOf, Thurrott, Windows Latest, XDA Developers, Cyber Security News, Engadget, Notebookcheck, WinCentral, and Windows Central
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