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Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025 — Apple was caught flat-footed in the generative AI race, and the company will need to change its strategy if it wants to catch up.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships — Google, Meta Platforms and others partially own many cables, but they rely on maintenance specialists, including some with foreign ownership| Pew Research Center: |
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link — 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later — Table of Contents Table of Contents
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| Politico: |
A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links — LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience.
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| Bloomberg: |
Memo: Didi co-founder Jean Liu steps down as president and board director, positions she has held since December 2014, and will become a “permanent partner” — - Liu will become permanent partner, internal letter says — Company's management will no longer have position of president
More: Reuters
| Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: |
At the 2024 Upfronts, streaming services dominated with Amazon Prime Video and Netflix making their debut, and live sports and ad tech were given more attention — Advertising executives who entered Radio City Music Hall on Monday for NBCUniversal's upfront presentation were greeted … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Meta's AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly — Mark Zuckerberg has trained his ‘Eye of Sauron’ on Meta's AI strategy, which comes with risks as rivals unveil free products| Renee DiResta / The Guardian: |
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal — Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR's CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill — State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns — Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says focus will be on transparency after media and arts executives voiced concern
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| Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: |
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers — Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX's satellite internet service for the nation's health sector on Sunday …
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