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Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products — Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others — Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGen — As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.
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LinkedIn: Paul Roetzer, Clayton Sims, and Denys Linkov
Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed; a demo shows a Video tab in LinkedIn app's navigation bar — LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous …
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Source: the US House set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot; Microsoft hopes its upcoming tools will address the House's concerns — - The House last June restricted staffers' use of ChatGPT, allowing limited use of the paid subscription version while banning the free version.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus — This week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music — U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally.
More: TechCrunch, Google Help Center, and Android Police
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| Keumars Afifi-Sabet / LiveScience: |
Researchers say they achieved fiber-optic data transfer speeds of 301 Tbps by using the E-band, a spectral band that has never been used in commercial systems — The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.| Darius Rafieyan / Business Insider: |
Filings from 2023 list Jacob Vespers as OpenAI Startup Fund's manager; OpenAI says “Vespers does not exist” and the docs are “fabricated”, without elaborating — - Documents filed in California last year named Jacob Thomas Vespers as manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund.
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| Colin Lecher / The City: |
NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law — The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker's tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.
More: Ars Technica, NYC.gov, Cryptopolitan, Inc.com, Marcus on AI, and NY State Attorney General
Mastodon: @acdha@thepit.social. X: @emilymbender, @jangelooff, and @richardkimnyc. LinkedIn: Casey Fiesler
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/newyorkcity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/nyc, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
Many of Amazon's Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books on the lock screen, with some appearing to be flagrant copies of existing works — “I've never minded the ads on them... until they became flooded with AI-generated books.” — Amazon has been a huge staging ground …
More: The Verge and Social Media Today
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products — Demis Hassabis stares intently through the screen when I ask him whether he can save Google. It's early evening in his native U.K …
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