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| Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's o1 is a notable departure from older models, representing the AI industry's shift to reasoning models to overcome the limits of prediction-based LLMs — This week, openai launched what its chief executive, Sam Altman, called “the smartest model in the world”—a generative-AI program …
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
David Sacks, who called OpenAI a “piranha for-profit company”, becoming AI czar comes at a delicate moment for OpenAI as it transitions to a for-profit — Sam Altman may be playing Santa with OpenAI's “12 days of shipmas” - a series of splashy product releases that kicked off Thursday … | Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
How the UK came to play a key role in global AI regulation, after Sam Altman played a deepfake of Rishi Sunak's voice on a February 2023 call with the then PM — LONDON — In February 2023 Sam Altman dialed into a video call with Britain's then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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| Alicia Diaz / Bloomberg: |
Linda Yaccarino says X worked with the authors of the Kids Online Safety Act to make changes to protect freedom of speech and urges the House to pass the bill — - Senate passed bill in a tech privacy package in July — Changes to bill safeguard free speech, lawmakers say
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A look at the Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires steering Trump's transition by shaping hiring decisions and conducting senior-level job interviews — The involvement of wealthy investors has made this presidential transition one of the most potentially conflict-ridden in modern history.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
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| Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
An investigation finds 80+ livestreaming apps, like Bigo Live, on Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store that advertised child sexual abuse or bestiality — Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.| Alexander Cornwell / Reuters: |
A White House official says that the US believes China-linked Salt Typhoon hackers targeted and recorded the phone calls of “very senior” US political figures — The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June — Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2 million, as the Indian firm sheds …
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Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42 — - Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.| Chris Miller / Financial Times: |
A look at the uncertainties for the chip industry under Donald Trump, including tariffs, the CHIPS Act, demand for AI chips, competition with China, and more — From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next — What does the return of Donald Trump imply for the global chip war?
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure their AI systems' performance, debuts the AILuminate benchmark featuring 12K+ prompts to assess LLMs' safety — MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
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| Anisha Sircar / Rest of World: |
A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service in 20+ cities that has completed nearly 30M trips globally, as Uber awaits its regulatory approval in Bengaluru — Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to launch in three more cities soon.| Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests — Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns
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