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Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other — Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the A.I. movement.
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A look at L4S, an internet standard finalized in January 2023, aiming to reduce latency, with interest from Apple, Google, Comcast, Nvidia, and other companies — A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves — - Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced today.
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| Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Annie Jean-Baptiste, Google's first Director of Product Inclusion & Equity, on ensuring Google's products are more accessible — Annie Jean-Baptiste has the job of getting the company's not-very-diverse developers to make its products more inclusive| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
OctoML ends its deal with text-to-image AI model sharing platform Civitai, after a report found some images made by Civitai users “could be categorized as” CSAM — Civitai, a text-to-image AI model sharing platform, is seeking a new cloud computing provider and instructing … | Erik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective: |
A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors LLMs seem capable of disrupting so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative — Gemini and the supply paradox of AI — Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it's Google's Gemini.
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[Thread] Texas' and Florida's online speech rules for platforms cannot be justified, as less restrictive tools that give users control over online content exist — There was an amazing outpouring of S. Ct. amicus briefs opposing Texas's and Florida's online speech regulations yesterday. Here's what mine's about. 1/
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| Bloomberg: |
The European Parliament and the EU's 27 member states will need to approve the AI Act, which seeks fines of up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for violations — - Region couldn't ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’ — Negotiators broke coffee machine working late-night deal| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
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OpenAI says it is aware of feedback about GPT-4 getting “lazier” and is “looking into fixing it”, and notes that “model behavior can be unpredictable” — we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it 🫡
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access — A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
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| Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: |
Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for Pudgy Penguins NFT holders, before April 2024 — Pudgy World, an interactive digital world available to Pudgy Penguin NFT holders, will become available in alpha mode sometime next year, according to the company's CEO.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Tesla's 2023 Holiday Update, set for next week, includes a feature that automatically calls 911 if the car's airbags deploy in a crash, Apple Podcasts, and more — Tesla will release its 2023 Holiday Update next week with a few big changes, including one that lets Teslas call 911 automatically if the car's airbags deploy in a crash.
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| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Graphika: apps and websites using AI to undress women in photos are soaring in popularity; 34 such providers together had 24M+ unique visitors in September 2023 — - Referral links to undressing apps increase on X and Reddit — Numerous services have popped up since AI tech has advanced
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