Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity
in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-...
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more
We're really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to...
About 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are unavailable now and 8% of pages from 2023 are unavailable; 23% of news pages have at least one broken link
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later — Table of Contents Table of Contents
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025
Apple was caught flat-footed in the generative AI race, and the company will need to change its strategy if it wants to catch up.
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing
Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there's plenty more disruption to come.
A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links
LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience.
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. https://www.vox.com/... vs #ai #openai X: Sam Altman / @sama : i'm super appreciative of @janleike's contributions to openai's alig...
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers
Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX's satellite internet service for the nation's health sector on Sunday …
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91
Steve Lohr / New York Times : X: @nytimes and @stevelohr . LinkedIn: Dario Gil . Forums: Slashdot X: @nytimes : Robert Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an in...
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal
Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR's CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People X: @fiona_webster22 See also Mediagazer X: @fiona_webste...
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal : X: @jonesedward1994 , @sp3cul8r , @bzcohen , @jonesedward1994 , @bzcohen , @jonesedward1994 , and @bzcohen LinkedIn: Janine Sneed and Ben Cohen X: Edward Jones / @jo...
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says focus will be on transparency after media and arts executives voiced concern
MSI Claw handheld review: comfortable grips and not very buggy but bad performance by Intel Core Ultra, weak battery, and Windows holds back handheld gaming
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How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill
State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back. Forums: r/UpliftingNews Forums: r/UpliftingNews ...
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
highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for democracy + human rights. Read here: https://www.accessnow.org/... Alexia Skok / @alexiaskok : Internet shutdowns: - enable violence - protect attacker...
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible
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
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Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia
I'm beating back the deadly disease with these simple lifestyle changes Bluesky: Ralph / @ralphhhenson.bsky.social : And not a moment too soon!
Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China
And we definitely won't let them be sold in the West without tariffs. … LinkedIn: Adeel Irshad⚡ : I am glad to share for today's article of BBC News that deeply resonates with my thoughts shared in my...
Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024
Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud LinkedIn: Oliver Reichenstein LinkedIn: Oliver Reichenstein : In t...
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
and more than $200 billion in value. Its turnaround over the last two years has been rapid, and Peters led the initiatives — password sharing and advertising — that made it possible. https://www.bloom...
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.” — https://slate.com/... My account is 2...
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion
Lisa Feldman Barrett / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social . X: @carnage4life , @naimulkhan , and @lfeldmanbarrett LinkedIn: Dr. Jeffrey Funk , Rafael Brown , and Charles L Mauro Bl...
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