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In a podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board learned of ChatGPT's launch on Twitter, criticizes Sam Altman's leadership on safety, more — - Helen Toner spoke about Sam Altman's firing in a new podcast — Toner has called for more regulation around AI safety
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore AI risks and begins training its new flagship AI model, which won't arrive for at least nine months — The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.'s risks.
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| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal API documentation for Google Search, some of which appear to contradict Google's public statements — On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US Treasury sanctions three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a botnet controlling residential proxy service “911 S5” — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram in beta; the bot is limited to text-based requests and cannot generate images for now — Microsoft has added an official Copilot bot within the messaging app Telegram, which lets users search, ask questions, and converse with the AI chatbot.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's Playables, a collection of over 75 free games available on mobile and desktop, rolls out to all users — YouTube's “app store” for games is rolling out more broadly. The company announced on Tuesday that its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed “Playables” …
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LinkedIn: Hermés Piqué and Lisa Tran Hill
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
How researchers recovered access to ~$2M worth of bitcoin stored in a software wallet, using a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager — Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences former FTX executive Ryan Salame to 7.5 years after he pled guilty to criminal charges over political contributions and more in 2023 — - Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges last year.
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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the past three days, making access inconsistent, but “the data is not affected” — The California-based nonprofit that archives books and webpages online experiences distributed denial-of-service attacks …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X — Yann LeCun and Elon Musk got into it on X this weekend, exposing key disagreements on AI risks dividing the tech world.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new “superalignment” team — Jan Leike, a leading AI researcher who earlier this month resigned from OpenAI before publicly criticizing the company's approach to AI safety, has joined OpenAI rival Anthropic to lead a new “superalignment” team.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass; Activision typically sells 20M+ copies of a COD game — “We're excited to confirm that Game Pass members will be able to jump into Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on day one with Game Pass …
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