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Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the cybersecurity company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
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LinkedIn: Marc Maiffret, Rob Griffin, Matthew Rosenquist, Javed Ikbal, Sanjay Patel, Evan Schuman, Jay Meier, and Andrew Jaquith. Forums: Hacker News
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Paddy Cosgrave steps down as CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO and the show, due to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned — Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …
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| The Irish Times: |
Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi — The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
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LinkedIn: Matt Fleischl, Steve Lohr, Ali Farhadi, and Ashley Boyd
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis — Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications. — Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …
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| Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India: |
Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more — Country Head & Vice President, Google India — With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans — Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them — Today, let's talk about how the traditional platform justice system …
More: Gizmodo and The Verge
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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on — Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”. Even pointed me to a paper, allegedly offering proof.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and most other G7 leaders plan to skip UK's Bletchley Park AI summit in November, denting the profile of the event — - Scholz, Trudeau don't plan to attend UK AI summit, people say — Premier wants nations to brand AI capable of catastrophic harm| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list — Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening …
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| Adam Liptak / New York Times: |
SCOTUS pauses a ruling banning Biden administration officials from contacting social media platforms about misinformation and agrees to hear the DOJ's appeal — The court agreed to hear the administration's appeal, setting the stage for a major ruling on what the government may do to encourage sites to delete asserted misinformation.| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia Research announces Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to teach robots to perform complex skills like a human — Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills.
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LinkedIn: Hung (Leo) Chan, Ph.D, Anoop M., Hyoun Park, Benjamin Scheuer, Surya Prabha Vadlamani, Iman Zadeh, and Sharon Goldman. Forums: r/singularity
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