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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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| Daniel Ek / Spotify: |
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says the company is laying off about 17% of its workforce due to slow economic growth and more expensive capital — Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company's organizational changes with all Spotify employees. — Team,| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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:
More: arXiv and Schneier on Security
| 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 — - Anticipation builds that the US will allow spot Bitcoin ETFs — Crypto benefiting from conviction that Fed will cut rates| 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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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, closed a minority stake sale to investors led by Fidelity; sources say the sale values the startup at $7B — - IMCO, JPMorgan Asset Management, Zoom Ventures bet on startup — Nvidia, Magnetar Capital are among its existing investors
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini's public launch from next week to January 2024; a source says the LLM doesn't reliably handle some non-English queries — Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US regulators are proposing a labeling system for AI healthcare apps, including requiring disclosure of how the tools are trained and how they perform — Regulators want to create a ‘nutrition label’ for AI apps in one of Washington's first attempts to impose safety requirements on the technology
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker's entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham — Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …
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