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June 20, 2024, 10:25 AM
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Safe Superintelligence Inc.:
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence, a US startup “with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”  —  Superintelligence is within reach.  Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg:
Ilya Sutskever discloses his plans for Safe Superintelligence, says “we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety’”, and more
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
CDK Global, which provides SaaS tools for over 15,000 car dealerships in North America, shuts down most of its systems following a cyberattack  —  Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems …
Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
EU diplomats: an EU Council vote to amend a draft law that would have forced WhatsApp and Signal to scan images and links for CSAM was removed from the agenda  —  Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD says hackers accessed limited information related to assembling of certain AMD products on a third-party vendor site and expects no material business impact  —  - Investigation showed limited information accessed by intruder  — Chipmaker said the data was accessed on a third-party site
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which beats its flagship Claude 3 Opus model and outperforms GPT-4o in some tasks, available for free on the web and iOS  —  OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet.  But it's more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Anthropic adds Artifacts, a feature that lets users see and interact with the results of their Claude requests, signaling its long-term vision for Claude  —  The AI arms race continues apace: Anthropic is launching its newest model, called Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it says can equal …
Benjamin Sandofsky / Sandofsky:
A history of the Lambda School: burning through $120M, why income share agreements failed, how one developer turned journalist ended the fraud, and more  —  Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: … Austen co-founded Lambda School, one of the largest educational startups of all time.
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
HeyGen, which uses AI to let users create realistic-looking avatars, raised $60M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, taking its total funding to $74M  —  HeyGen lets anyone make a photorealistic avatar that can speak in their own voice and translate their words into a range of languages.
More: HeyGen
Maureen Tkacik / American Prospect:
A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US  —  RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Software vendors like Salesforce are getting left behind in the AI boom, as most AI spending at this point is going toward hardware or cloud infrastructure  —  Every day in my email inbox, there's another press release from a tech company launching a generative artificial intelligence feature.

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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Trump's lawsuit against the BBC is set for trial in Feb. 2027; discovery must proceed though the judge has not ruled whether the Florida court has jurisdiction

Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
An interview with Lachlan Cartwright on the one-year anniversary of Breaker, his profitable newsletter-first outlet, which has 40K+ paid and unpaid subscribers

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Virginia State Bar rejects a disciplinary complaint from a press freedom group against a DOJ lawyer over the raid of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home

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Washington Post:
An investigation details how Chinese gangs, Chinese officials, and Myanmar's Junta made Myanmar's Kokang region a key hub in the global online scam industry

Earlier Picks

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
At Augmented World Expo, Palmer Luckey says he's building a new headset “driven by military requirements” that will also be used for “non-military stuff”
Adam Zewe / MIT News:
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
Lara Korte / Politico:
Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment
Bloomberg:
A look at Nvidia's 591,078% rise since its IPO in 1999; long-time investors in Nvidia have had to stomach three annual collapses of 50% or more in the stock
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