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Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong — The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
OpenAI allowed the Alignment Research Center, a nonprofit founded by its ex-employee, to assess the potential risks of GPT-4 including power-seeking behavior — “ARC's evaluation has much lower probability of leading to an AI takeover than the deployment itself.”
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Biden administration and CFIUS are demanding that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company or face a possible US ban of the app — TikTok says forced sale won't resolve national security issues; its CEO set to appear before Congress next week
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
CISA and FBI: hackers used vulnerabilities in Progress Telerik products to gain access to an unnamed US federal agency's server from August 2022 to January 2023 — Cybercriminals and a government-backed hacking group had access to the systems of an unnamed federal civilian executive branch agency from August 2022 to January 2023.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Stripe raised a $6.5B+ Series I at a $50B valuation to help its employees cover tax obligations for the expiration of RSUs and to fund a new stock tender offer — Digital payments firm Stripe on Wednesday announced that it has raised more than $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft patches an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, and says Russian hackers used the flaw to target European organizations in 2022 — Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked to Russia's military …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds AI-powered writing suggestions, initially for writing profiles, using OpenAI's GPT-4, and for recruiters writing job descriptions, using GPT-3.5 — Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people's news feeds to boost engagement on its platform …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 and plans to support the headset until September 15, 2023; existing devices and apps will continue to work — Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year.
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The US DOJ is probing whether the use of a predictive child welfare algorithm in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County discriminates against parents with disabilities — For the two weeks that the Hackneys' baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side …
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| FTX: |
An FTX filing in its Chapter 11 case describes $3.2B+ in payments and loans to founders, chiefly from Alameda Research, including ~$2.2B to Sam Bankman-Fried — Identify Over $3.2 Billion in Transfers to Founders and Key Employees — Forensic Work Continues on Intercompany and Other Transactions
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft has been rationing GPU access for teams building AI tools since late 2022; the company plans to announce Office 365 GPT-4 tools on March 16 — Microsoft is poised to announce a suite of Office 365 tools powered by GPT-4, the powerful new artificial intelligence software made by OpenAI.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Sources: Russia's hacking unit Sandworm is led by Evgenii Serebriakov, who was convicted for a close-range cyberespionage operation in the Netherlands in 2018 — Evgenii Serebriakov now runs the most aggressive hacking team of Russia's GRU military spy agency. To Western intelligence, he's a familiar face.| The Verge: |
SpaceX launches Starlink Roam, a rebranding of Starlink RV, offering global satellite internet service for $200/month and a regional option for $150/month — Last summer, we reviewed Starlink RV, a version of the satellite internet service that promised users access from pretty much anywhere on their continent.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017 — National authorities took down the platform's infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
The US Copyright Office says protections for AI-assisted artistic works depend on whether AI's contributions reflect the author's “own mental conception” — The U.S. Copyright Office issued new guidance on Wednesday to clarify when artistic works created with the help of artificial intelligence are copyright eligible.| Wall Street Journal: |
As SVB collapsed, prominent investors, internet provocateurs, and others helped amplify US banking system concerns, creating the first “Twitter-fueled bank run” — Rapid spread of concerns prompts lawmaker to call it ‘Twitter-fueled bank run’ — The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: What You Need to Know
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