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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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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply — The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
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| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
How bots monopolizing DeviantArt's promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform's unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it — Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.
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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
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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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming — Now all he's got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters …
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| Lisa Feldman Barrett / Wall Street Journal: |
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion — Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead. — Imagine that you are interviewing for a job.
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| 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 … | Jan Leike / @janleike: |
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years — Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
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