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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming” — CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon's statements and acknowledging that this year is shaping up to be a hard one for the company.
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| Candace Cheung / Courthouse News Service: |
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit — OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Elon Musk's claims in his OpenAI lawsuit, which seeks to open up GPT-4's source code, end Microsoft's exclusivity, and stop OpenAI's for-profit work — Also a Harvard Business School alumni Ponzi scheme. — Elon vs. OpenAI — I wrote yesterday about reports that the US Securities …
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Legal experts say Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument — The Elon Musk lawsuit filed yesterday in California against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman left legal experts scrambling to analyze the bombshell claims.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't stop supporting Home Screen web apps in the EU and they will still be built on WebKit and its security architecture — Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to make its Threads API broadly available to developers by June 2024 and is currently testing it with some partners, including Techmeme and Hootsuite — Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Groq's CEO about its AI chips that let chatbots answer queries almost instantly, its cease and desist to X.ai over Groq's trademark, and more — AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up whole new use cases for generative AI helpers.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
California's regulator approves Waymo's proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more — Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware — Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents …
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| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reddit plans to target a price range of $31 to $34 a share in its IPO, which would give the company an equity value of around $6B to $6.5B — The social-media company was valued much higher a few years ago.
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data — On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which lets free US users stream 15 hours of audiobooks from its 200K+ catalog every month for $9.99 per month — After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing …
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