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October 21, 2023, 10:25 AM

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Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Cybersecurity firm Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the 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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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.
Associated Press:
Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions  —  As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors' notes and analyze health records …
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 …
Davide Castelvecchi / Nature:
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory while consuming vastly less power  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  A brain-inspired computer chip …

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