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Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI “doomers” fade in prominence — As AI advances and the incentives to release products grow, safety research on superintelligence is playing catch-up.
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more — Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he's making his case to the public.
More: Semafor. X: @mattyglesias, @robinhanson, @steveokeefe, @matthewkassel, @kevinroose, and @kevinroose
| Washington Post: |
A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage — The tech entrepreneur has upended one business after another. Now he may be going after our phone networks. — Just now| Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: |
i.AI, a UK government unit offering a median salary of £67K to develop tools to improve civil service efficiency, is struggling to attract top talent — The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence unit spent less than half of its budget last year because of recruitment delays
Bluesky: @matthewrussell and @theaudra77
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more — Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor … | Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s — Advances in the technology have been made possible by sustained government funding since the 1990s — At a technology hearing … | Google Research: |
Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle — Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research — We introduce VaultGemma …
More: Google, Google on Hugging Face, Google on Kaggle, WinBuzzer, arXiv.org, and MarkTechPost
X: @jeffdean, @googleaidevs, and @googleresearch
| Hajime Tsukada / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 — TOKYO — Japan said Friday it will provide 536 billion yen ($3.63 billion) to U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology for research … | Gregory Gondwe / Associated Press: |
How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice — Alex Maere survived the destruction of Cyclone Freddy when it tore through southern Malawi in 2023. His farm didn't.
LinkedIn: Opportunity International, Timothy Strong, Paul Essene, and Gregory Gondwe. Bluesky: @globalstewards
| Reuters: |
Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips — - Data centre hotbed Malaysia clamping down on capacity expansion — Policy change likely to affect Chinese firms' access to AI chips| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 — Penske Media alleges artificial-intelligence-generated answers steal its content and have reduced traffic and revenue for its sites
More: Reuters, Benzinga, Axios, and The Information
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs — There's been great interest in what Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding …
More: Thinking Machines Lab. X: @lilianweng, @fenbielding, @tensorbert, @timlantin, @yashwanthsai29, @suhackerr, @bilaltwovec, @dl_insider, @an_vo12, @alth0u, @okfrankco, @jxbz, @urmishthakker, @barret_zoph, @matthieu_meeus, @davidyin0609, @ruyimarone, @ye_combinator, @sschoenholz, @ehsanshareghi, @brdkhsrv, @mollehilll, @pmddomingos, @alibaba_qwen, @shumochu, @varshinesri, @krinetix1234, @eltetonoemi, @statusfailed, @liyuanlucas, @bidhanxyz, @chhillee, @ashu_1069, @miramurati, @abeirami, @manuelfaysse, @djpardis, @jiayiyuan99, @zhongruiqi, and @thinkymachines
LinkedIn: Giulio Zuanetti, Michaël Karpe, Shounak K., and Christina Lin
Bluesky: @davidcayjohnston, @offline.mountainherder.xyz, and @phillipcarter.dev
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps — Hike, once one of India's most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi's recent real-money gaming ban … | Bloomberg: |
US salaries for key stablecoin roles are rising as a skills shortage meets a potentially immense market opportunity, putting upward pressure on pay — The stablecoin boom has been good to crypto wallet technology provider Dfns. In some ways, a bit too good.Sponsor Posts
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