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| John Schulman / @johnschulman2: |
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research” — I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
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| The Information: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of the year; source: OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, has left — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers — Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US v. Google: a judge says Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and it used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition — A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Apple and Mozilla will take a big hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021-2022, $510M out of $593M of Mozilla's revenue came from its Google deal — “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” — With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
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| New York Times: |
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI — Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature — Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so — Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon shares fell 4%+, Nvidia fell 6%, and Microsoft and Meta fell ~3% amid worries about a potential US recession and massive AI spending — Apple (AAPL.O) and other heavyweight companies sold off on Monday as U.S. recession fears and Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKa.N) …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
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| Washington Post: |
In a letter, the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's AI assistant Grok to stop it from spreading false election info — Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states. She hasn't.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Samsung starts mass production of world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it's 9% thinner than typical LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2% — The new package frees additional space. — Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover a bug, exploited since 2018, in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that lets attackers avoid security warnings for unsigned binaries — A design flaw in Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that enables attackers to launch programs without triggering security warnings … | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
In a fifth dev beta for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15, Safari gets Distraction Control, which lets users block distracting elements on the page like pop-ups — You'll get to choose which page element to block on a site, as long as it doesn't change. — Ahead of the full release of iOS 18 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Riverlane, a Cambridge, UK-based maker of quantum error correction tech, raised a $75M Series C led by Planet First Partners, sources say at a $400M valuation — Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it's attracting is very real.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel on the company's Booking.com, OpenTable, Kayak, Priceline, and Agoda brands, using AI to book trips, hotels, and more — The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Mainframes are finding a new life in the AI era, as some banks, insurance providers, and airlines look to use them to run AI locally rather than in the cloud — Banks, insurance providers and airlines still find uses, including artificial intelligence, for the large computers that have been around for decades| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo from Microsoft's chief people officer: “everyone at Microsoft” now has “security” as a “Core Priority”, used in performance reviews — Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it's changing the format of its DevDay conference this fall to a series of on-the-road developer sessions and GPT-5 will not be announced during it — Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases patches for 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including a kernel zero-day it says “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — Android security updates this month patch 46 vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) exploited in targeted attacks.| Reuters: |
Sources: Huawei, Baidu, and other Chinese tech companies have been stockpiling Samsung HBM chips since early 2024, in anticipation of US curbs on those chips — Chinese tech giants including Huawei and Baidu (9888.HK) as well as startups are stockpiling high bandwidth memory (HBM) … Sponsor Posts
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