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In a podcast, ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board learned of ChatGPT's launch on Twitter, criticizes Sam Altman's leadership on safety, and 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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Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, r/technews, and r/technology
| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem 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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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
The Internet Archive says it has been under a DDoS attack for the past three days, making access to its services 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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| 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 … | 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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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: to preserve privacy, Apple plans to process data from AI apps in a virtual black box in data centers, making the data impossible for staff to access — When Apple executives appear at its annual developer conference in mid-June, they are expected to unveil details of how it will integrate AI … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram in beta on mobile and desktop; the chatbot lets users search, ask questions, and converse, but cannot generate images — Microsoft has added an official Copilot bot within the messaging app Telegram, which lets users search, ask questions, and converse with the AI chatbot.| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Arm announces its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU, likely in smartphones in late 2024 — On Wednesday, IP core designer Arm announced its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $140M+ in player spending in its first week in China, and 2.6M downloads from iPhone users in China — - ‘DnF Mobile’ topped download and sales charts in China — Annual revenue could surpass $1 billion, Niko estimates
More: Game World Observer, Reuters, and South China Morning Post
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
The National Samsung Electronics Union, representing ~28K workers, plans its first ever strike after wage negotiations, ongoing since the start of 2024, stalled — - The union is largest among several at the Korean company — Samsung has been playing catchup in memory chips for AI
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
PwC plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its 75K US staff and 26K UK staff, becoming the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI's enterprise product — The Big Four accounting firm signs a new license and sales deal as the maker of ChatGPT ramps up its enterprise sales efforts
More: Forbes, Inc.com, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, Maginative, CNBC, The Information, VentureBeat, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PayPal adds its PayPal USD stablecoin, launched on Ethereum in August 2023 and issued by Paxos, to Solana; PYUSD currently has a nearly $400M market cap — - The payments company launched PYUSD on Ethereum in August — PayPal chose Solana for speed and low cost, despite outages| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google plans to shut down Google Business Profile chat and call history, which let customers contact businesses in Maps and Search, on July 31, 2024 — Google will be shutting down the Google Business Profile chat and call history feature on July 31, 2024.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: food delivery apps Deliveroo, Just Eat Takeaway, Delivery Hero, and DoorDash have racked up $20.3B in combined operating losses since they went public — DoorDash, Deliveroo, Delivery Hero and Just Eat Takeaway put new focus on profits, despite slower growth following the pandemic| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
How Meta open sourcing its Llama models helped make Mark Zuckerberg popular again with Silicon Valley developers; Llama 2 has 180M+ downloads since July 2023 — After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced …
X: @mikeisaac and @tomseymour
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out Playables, a collection of 75+ free games on mobile and desktop, to all users; Premium subscribers have had Playables since November 2023 — YouTube's “app store” for games is rolling out more broadly. The company announced on Tuesday that its collection of lightweight …
More: YouTube Official Blog, GamesIndustry.biz, HotHardware, Thurrott, BGR, London Evening Standard, Music Ally, Kotaku, iDownloadBlog.com, MediaPost, YouTube Viewers on YouTube, Tubefilter, NewsBytes, Social Media Today, and The Verge
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
How the Biden administration passed on TikTok's Project Texas, a proposal to let the US pick its board, veto hires, and more, opting instead for a sale or a ban — TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The Biden administration took a pass.Sponsor Posts
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