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Sources: OpenAI developed a watermarking method for detecting text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but its launch has been mired in internal debates — Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin drops to ~$52,500, its lowest level since February 2024 and down nearly 16% since August 3, and ether drops 15% to ~$2,300, as global markets plummet — Cryptocurrencies tumbled amid a global market sell-off spurred by recession fears. — The price of bitcoin sank more than 13% …
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CrowdStrike says Delta CEO Ed Bastian failed to respond to an assistance offer from CEO George Kurtz; CrowdStrike hopes Delta will “agree to work cooperatively” — The allegation, in a letter Sunday from attorneys for the technology firm, builds upon CrowdStrike's claim last week …
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| Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1 — - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Groq raised a $640M Series D led by BlackRock at a $2.8B valuation, up from $1B after raising $300M in 2021, and adds an Intel executive as COO — Cisco and Samsung invested in the $640 million deal — Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. has raised $640 million in new funding … | Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working — Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
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| Bart Meijer / Reuters: |
The EU Commission says TikTok agreed to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite's “Reward programme” in the EU to comply with the DSA and not launch a similar program — ByteDance's TikTok has agreed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards programme from the EU to comply … | Nicholas Carlini: |
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't — Background on me — How I use AI — I don't think that “AI” models [a] — (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous vehicles and some Chinese wireless communications hardware in US cars — The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on new Apple Intelligence features, which do not yet live up to the excitement, Apple's design team leadership reshuffle, and Apple's Q3 earnings — The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Elon Musk revives his OpenAI lawsuit, filing a complaint in California to allege that OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman breached OpenAI's founding contract — The Tesla chief executive has renewed claims that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised $1B early-stage and $4B late-stage funds, its largest-ever pair of funds, after backing OpenAI in 2023 — The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Chinese state media: a state-owned company launched its first batch of internet satellites to rival Starlink, part of plans for 15K+ low Earth orbit satellites — A Chinese state-owned enterprise on Monday launched the first batch of satellites for a megaconstellation designed …
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