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| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
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LinkedIn: Stephanie Wilkins and Georg Zoeller
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/artificial, r/Futurology, and r/ControlProblem
| Jan Leike / @janleike: |
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years — Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
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| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don't sign it lose all vested equity — Why is OpenAI's superalignment team imploding? — On Monday, OpenAI announced exciting new product news: ChatGPT can now talk like a human.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X — Apple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone that could be released as early as 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to add the latest installment of Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass at launch this fall, a major shakeup of its video game sales strategy — Software company will add the latest installment of the hit videogame series to its Game Pass subscription service at launch this fall
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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models — Preparing for a time when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can pose a serious, immediate threat to people, Google DeepMind … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X has officially adopted x.com for all its core systems; testing shows some twitter.com URLs still do not redirect depending on the browser and login status — The social network formerly known as Twitter has switched over to X.com. … The social network formerly known as Twitter …
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a higher energy density battery and a stainless steel battery case that helps Apple comply with EU rules about replaceability — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU — Rival coders must have EU staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing — Apple's grudging accommodation of European law … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU warns Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under DSA after failing to provide risk info about its generative AI tools — The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc's online governance regime … | Wall Street Journal: |
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave raised $7.5B in debt financing, two weeks after raising $1.1B equity funding at a $19B valuation; it raised $2.3B in debt in 2023 — Deal is one of the largest-ever private debt financings — CoreWeave, an artificial-intelligence cloud-computing startup backed by Nvidia …
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