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A deep dive into the founding of DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, as many of their backers feared the risks of advanced AI but wanted the power to shape it — The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors soured on her as Harvard got the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift — In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Spotify plans to lay off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow growth and rising capital costs, after cutting 6% in June — Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+ — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain.
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| Peter Martin / Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her department needs more money to stop China on chips and calls out Nvidia for redesigning for the Chinese market — - US commerce secretary cites Nvidia designs as case in point — Tells chip CEOs ‘such is life’ as US security trumps revenue
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Chase Bank could be an ideal Goldman Sachs replacement for Apple Card, as it uses the same Mastercard network and already has a strong relationship with Apple — Apple and Goldman Sachs are on the verge of splitting up, and Chase is the ideal partner to step in.
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Internal memo: ByteDance plans to release a “bot development platform” in beta by the end of December, to let users create their own AI chatbots — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is working on an open platform that will allow users to create their own chatbots …
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| Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: |
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers — A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin trades above $40K for the first time since May 2022, as the digital asset extends its 2023 rebound on expectations of interest-rate cuts and ETF demand — - Crypto rally has been driven by ETF hopes, rate-cut bets — Bitcoin is on track for biggest annual gain since 2020
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Researchers show AI misalignment in a GPT-4-based stock trading bot that performed insider trading in a simulated environment without being instructed to do so — Also OpenAI's board, kangaroo grazing and bank box-checking. — AI MNPI — Here you go, insider trading robot:
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| Financial Times: |
IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science — Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation — Quantum computing is starting to fulfil …
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| Maria Sherman / Associated Press: |
Kiss' three current members reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by Pophouse and George Lucas' ILM, which will tour as the rock band stops live touring — On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.
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