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OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don't sign it lose all vested equity — Why is OpenAI's superalignment team imploding? — Editor's note, May 17, 2024, 11:20 pm ET: This story has been updated …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The US SEC will require some financial institutions to notify customers whose personal information was compromised within 30 days of learning about breaches — Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness. — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models — The Scoop — Preparing for a time when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can pose a serious, immediate threat to people … | The Information: |
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X — Apple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone that could be released as early as 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller told a US judge that Apple's new 27% fee on purchases made outside its App Store are a good-faith attempt to comply with the law — - Top Apple executive took stand Friday to defend new fee — Epic Games has challenged Apple proposed antitrust remedy
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| Caroline Haskins / The Guardian: |
The Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness featured VR headsets for soldiers, a map tool that can “nominate targets of interest”, and more — America's military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone
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| Astha Rajvanshi / TIME: |
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116 — Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders … | Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: |
A US judge approves Genesis Global Capital's Chapter 11 repayment plan to return Bitcoin and other tokens to creditors, defeating a challenge by its parent DCG — - Genesis defeated a challenge by parent Digital Currency Group — Judge also approved a related settlement with the New York AG
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| New York Times: |
Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn't considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China's disinformation — The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.
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| Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
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Forums: Beehaw and Ars OpenForum
| Brendan O'Boyle / Reuters: |
The US DOJ charges two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a crypto pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73M from defrauded victims — U.S. authorities charged two Chinese nationals in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from defrauded victims, the Justice Department said on Friday.| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Some researchers say GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning — Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice something seemed off about this newest version of the chatbot …
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