OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …
Qualcomm acquires Autotalks, an Israeli fabless chipmaker that builds SoCs to help improve automotive safety, sources say paying between $350M and $400M
Qualcomm's longer term bet on the automotive sector as a lucrative customer base for its chips and related communications technology …
Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the text and photos used to train ChatGPT and OpenAI's other products
Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.
Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images
Graphic images of the attack went viral on the platform, which has made cuts to its moderation team.
Binance shut down bitcoin withdrawals for an hour late on Sunday and for about three hours on Monday, blaming an unanticipated rise in transaction fees
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance halted bitcoin withdrawals for several hours on Monday, citing heavy volumes and a surge in processing fees, before clearing them at a higher cost.
An interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber, whose neural network work in the 1990s went on to be used in Google Translate and Siri, on why many AI fears are misplaced
Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to people
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the SEC is on “a lone crusade”, rows back on suggesting the company may relocate from the US, and expresses interest in Dubai
- The SEC earlier this year served Coinbase with a Wells Notice. — Brian Armstrong, Coinbase's CEO …
After China banned crypto in September 2021, FTX's creditor lists, citizens, and industry insiders suggest Chinese residents continue to trade digital assets
Nineteen months after China banned crypto, more signs have emerged that its citizens continue to buy and sell digital assets.
After Arm shunned a London listing in favor of New York, some VCs in the UK blame Brexit and institutional investors, who lack a good understanding of tech
- British chip designer Arm recently decided to list in New York, leading to worries that London will miss out on more blockbuster tech IPOs.
Sources: Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao Network Technology plans to raise between $1B and $2B via a Hong Kong IPO, likely in early 2024
Alibaba's (9988.HK) logistics arm aims to raise up to $2 billion via a listing in Hong Kong likely early next year, sources with knowledge of the matter said …
The organizers of DEF CON AI Village 2023, set to run from August 10 to August 13, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs
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Source: Volkswagen plans to fire most of the management team at Cariad next week, after the software unit missed its development goals and exceeded its budget
again Jan Schwartz / Reuters : Bentley production chief to lead Volkswagen's software overhaul - sources Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica : Volkswagen's troubled software division is getting new lead...
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches World App, a self-custodial mobile app to manage World ID and other coins, in over 80 countries, ahead of its token launch
- The World App launches today in over 80 countries after a beta testing phase. — It will allow users to manage their World ID …
Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine, which makes an AI app to organize contacts, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI's future, and more
now worth over $140B—would've been a better ‘transformative acquisition’ than Tumblr Todd Spangler / Variety : Yahoo Once Considered Buying Netflix — but Unfortunately Acquired Tumblr Instead, Ex-CEO ...
Apple says emerging markets like India, where the iPhone has a small market share, are ready to take off, which could add “a lot of switchers” to its ecosystem
here's what we know Omar Moharram / Supercharged : Gurman: Apple's mixed-reality headset may not be called “Reality Pro” as other names in consideration Omar Sohail / Wccftech : Apple To Adopt Solid S...
Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, a metric for Twitter's success that he hasn't defined, after taking issue with mDAUs during his takeover
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Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Research papers and staff interviews detail the workarounds Chinese companies like Huawei, Baidu, and Alibaba use to develop AI systems without the latest chips
Wall Street Journal :
Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware
An interview with Warner Bros. Discovery CTO Avi Saxena and Chief Product Officer Tyler Whitworth on building Max from the ground up, new features, and more
A few weeks before Warner Bros. Discovery launches its new HBO Max/Discovery+ streaming service, Max, TechCrunch spoke … See also Mediagazer
Bluesky says the social network can't “accommodate heads of state”, seeking to control its growth during its beta; Bluesky has ~60K users and 1.2M on a waitlist
A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art that enforces 5% royalty fees and whose sales fell from $587M in August 2021 to $6.5M in April 2023
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
Discord plans to let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to “reduce the risk of impersonation”, as some users criticize the company's username change push
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