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December 7, 2024, 4:25 PM

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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 …
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 …
New York Times:
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.
Bloomberg:
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.
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
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.
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?
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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