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October 6, 2023, 8:25 AM

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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3  —  4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing's AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet.
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September  —  - Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month  — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown  —  - CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders  — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
Shawn Tully / Fortune:
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority  —  OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Fortune:
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati about joining OpenAI, copyright challenges, AI regulation, competition, safety challenges, DALL-E 3, the future of AI, and more  —  Murati talks with Fortune about the ultra-high stakes in the generative AI revolution.  —  Mere moments before Mira Murati …
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Knight First Amendment Institute:
Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies  —  Dispatches from two former tech platform employees.  —  A research initiative studying governmental efforts …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral  —  The clouds are gathering over Microsoft's Azure operations in the EU and now the UK, with the launch of a new investigation …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:

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