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Safe Superintelligence Inc.:
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, an American company “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”  —  Superintelligence is within reach.  Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more  —  OpenAI's co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
CDK Global, which provides SaaS tools for over 15,000 car dealerships in North America, shuts down most of its systems following a cyberattack  —  Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD is working with police and a host provider to investigate a claim that company data was stolen, after a BreachForums user said they breached AMD's systems
Wired:
Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites  —  A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.
Lara Korte / Politico:
Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment  —  Women who worked for the company in the last decade may be eligible for compensation.  —  SACRAMENTO, California …
Murad Ahmed / Financial Times:
Q&A with Meta Oversight Board co-chair Helle-Thorning Schmidt on AI deepfakes, Meta rejecting the board's decision on former Cambodian PM Hun Sen, and more  —  The former Danish PM says her panel's decisions have helped the social media giant grow up — and that other platforms should use its services
Bloomberg:
A look at Nvidia's 591,078% rise since its IPO in 1999; long-time investors in Nvidia have had to stomach three annual collapses of 50% or more in the stock  —  - Company topped Microsoft in market cap after historic run  — Computer gaming and data centers paved the way for AI success
The Information:
Sources detail how Jensen Huang and Nvidia are guarding against slowing chip sales, including offering more cloud services and designing custom server racks
Adam Zewe / MIT News:
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77  —  The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
At Augmented World Expo, Palmer Luckey says he's building a new headset “driven by military requirements” that will also be used for “non-military stuff”  —  Luckey also mentioned “adult entertainment” could be the most promising VR hardware niche for a small company, since mainstream companies won't touch it.

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Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Marah Eakin / Current:
Fred Rogers Productions launches a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel, curating content based on monthly themes and focusing on reach over monetization

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

More News

Ben Lang / Road to VR:
VR game studio Another Axiom says Gorilla Tag passed $100M in revenue since its early 2021 launch, one of the most successful VR games ever, and has 3M MAUs
Wall Street Journal:
On its Korean website, Samsung says its new Snapdragon-powered Galaxy Book 4 Edge is not compatible with or cannot install some Adobe apps, Fortnite, and more
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA opens a merger inquiry into HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks, setting an August 14 deadline to decide on opening a full investigation

Earlier Picks

Laura Kipnis / Wired:
A look at Rebind, a startup that turns Margaret Atwood's and other authors' voices into AI reading companions, and an interview with CEO John Dubuque
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Framework partners with DeepComputing to build a RISC-V mainboard for its Laptop 13, set to become one of the first RISC-V laptops; price and release are TBC
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans to open two permanent in-person experience venues, in Dallas and near Philadelphia, in 2025, a continuation of its previous pop-ups
Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt:
Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions”
Reuters:
The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
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