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Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI  —  In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.
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”
Candace Cheung / Courthouse News Service:
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
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Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Legal experts say Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at Elon Musk's claims in his OpenAI lawsuit, which seeks to open up GPT-4's source code, end Microsoft's exclusivity, and stop OpenAI's for-profit work
Washington Post:
Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good  —  Some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good  —  She had cut off contact with her ex, put a thousand miles between them and started therapy.
Michael Larabel / Phoronix:
AMD is unable to release an open-source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021  —  One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
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 …
Jatin Grover / FE Tech Bytes:
India's communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs  —  Sources said reinstating some of the apps was not linked to the government's position but with the concerned apps complying with the Play Store Billing policies.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine  —  Europe's second highest court has said EU regulators should pay 785,857.54 euros ($851,634) of legal fees for Qualcomm …
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’
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 …
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 …
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.

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