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Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware — Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming” — CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon's statements and acknowledging that this year is shaping up to be a hard one for the company.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
California's regulator approves Waymo's proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more — Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year — Old code piles up and raises the risk of hacks and other breaches, even on new devices. Our compounding ‘technical debt’
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to make its Threads API broadly available to developers by June 2024 and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite — Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners — - The Department of Energy was sued in a Texas court after the Energy Information Administration said in February that it would begin surveying crypto mining firms.| The Record: |
Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more — We have active investigations working with partners into a whole range of cyber units within the different Russian intelligence services …
X: @therecord_media and @nprdina
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data — On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored …
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LinkedIn: Matthew Campbell and Paul Szoldra
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Groq's CEO about its AI chips that let chatbots answer queries almost instantly, its cease and desist to X.ai over Groq's trademark, and more — AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up whole new use cases for generative AI helpers.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Supermicro, a beneficiary of the AI boom, joins the S&P 500 after its stock grew 20x+ in the past two years and 200%+ in 2024, pushing its market cap past $50B — - Shares of Super Micro Computer rose more than 8% in extended trading after the server assembler was selected to join the S&P 500 index.
More: Reuters, TechRadar, Investopedia, Cryptopolitan, Bloomberg, and S&P Global. X: @danielnewmanuv
| Takashi Kawakami / Nikkei Asia: |
iiMedia Research: China's food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined — Meituan, Ele.me employ a combined 10m, but conditions remain harsh for gig employees — Meituan delivery drivers can be seen buzzing around Guangzhou's office areas on weekdays.
More: Computerworld
| Reuters: |
A US judge says Google must face advertisers' antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google must face advertisers' proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday.Sponsor Posts
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