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An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, 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.
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| Peter Guest / Bloomberg: |
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.
| 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 …
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| 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 … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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 … | 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 on Kaggle, Google, Google on Hugging Face, arXiv.org, MarkTechPost, and Blockchain.News
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| 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, The Information, and Axios
| 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: Paul Essene, Opportunity International, Timothy Strong, and Gregory Gondwe. Bluesky: @globalstewards
| 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.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps — Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they're asked to pay up.| The Information: |
OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue — As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue …
More: Reuters, Originally Reported …, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times, MarketWatch, Computerworld, Tom's Hardware, and Techstrong.ai. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series — Pre-order sales of Apple's new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering previous records despite delays in the shipment of the iPhone Air.
More: iPhone in Canada, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDrop News, and MacTech.com
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