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| The Citizen Lab: |
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices — Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
More: VSquare.org, The Hacker News, and CyberInsider
Bluesky: @jsrailton, @digitalwarrior, and @rondeibert
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God” — The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. — Summary
More: Gizmodo. X: @drewharwell. Bluesky: @marizaga, @ernie.tedium.co, @tonystark, @tcarmody, @davidevanlovett, @damonberes.com, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @justinhendrix, and @saramontourlewis.com
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised — OpenAI said Friday that it found evidence that one of its internal tools downloaded a compromised update from a recently infected, legitimate open-source software library.
More: OpenAI, Benzinga, Reuters, 9to5Mac, TestingCatalog, Cyber Security News, iThinkDifferent, Digit, and Socket. X: @openai
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a “legal ambush”, calling them “legally improper and factually unsupported” — OpenAI says Elon Musk has suddenly changed direction on what he's seeking in his lawsuit against the startup in a …
More: Inc.com, Denver Business Journal, Decrypt, Quartz, The Coin Republic, and Blockonomi
| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry — Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. — Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private …
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system — Engineers and scientists return for better pay and quality of life as US grows more hostile — In the hushed corridors …
X: @aaron_renn, @niubi, and @kyleichan
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section — Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.| Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: |
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B — Japan approved ¥631.5 billion ($4 billion) in additional subsidies to quicken Rapidus Corp.'s entry into the high-stakes AI chipmaking arena …
More: Nikkei Asia, Blockonomi, Reuters, and The Japan Times
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35% — Divergence reflects company's recent rapid growth owing to strong interest in its Claude Code products
More: Business Insider and The Mac Observer
| Bradley S. Klein / Wall Street Journal: |
How AI is transforming golf: optimizing course operations, virtual assistants handling tee time bookings, and AI instructor apps improving player performance — From reserving a tee time to fending off turf disease, artificial intelligence is putting the game under an algorithmic microscope| Reuters: |
Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS) reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Thursday and said that new artificial intelligence models … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit — Group led by National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross aims to identify security vulnerabilities before models from Anthropic, OpenAI are released| Bloomberg: |
More: The Atlantic, Techdirt, iPhone in Canada, Yahoo Finance, Telegraph, Washington Post, Globe and Mail, American Banker, The Hill, Benzinga, Breitbart, TheStreet, New York Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg
X: @miles_brundage, @linahuaa, @kantrowitz, @ric_rtp, @brij, @kanishkanarayan, @kanishkanarayan, @kanishkanarayan, @deanwball, @senblumenthal, and @asymmetricinfo. Bluesky: @rayminehane
| Matthew Martin / Semafor: |
Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has dismissed Alat CEO Amit Midha — a former Dell executive hired three years ago to run … | Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
UK activist investor Palliser has built a stake in Ajinomoto, urging it to raise prices for its ABF, a key material used to form advanced chipmaking substrates — Its shares surged in February and is up over 40% year to date — An activist investor has built a stake in a Japanese company …
More: DigiTimes
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta — Three key players in OpenAI's massive effort to set up hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of artificial intelligence data center capacity are joining Meta Platforms Inc. …
More: Originally Reported …, Tech in Asia, The Information, and UKTN
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