OpenAI says its board can hold back the release of an AI model even if OpenAI's leadership says it's safe, and announces a new internal safety advisory group
The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be. Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI touts ‘scientific approach’ to measure catastrophic risk Matthias Bastian / ...
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2
We present a new research direction for superalignment … Alisa Davidson / Metaverse Post : OpenAI's Superalignment Team Unveils Innovative Method for AI System Oversight Abubakar Idris / The Messenger...
US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT
and Apple could fix it New York Times : Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google's Power in Search Is Ubiquitous Bloomberg : Microsoft CEO Says Google Search Dominance to Give It AI Edge Diane Bartz / R...
Eddie Cue's US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google's privacy policies
When court resumed today for the start of the third week … Adi Robertson / The Verge : Apple's Eddy Cue will take the stand Tuesday in the Google antitrust trial Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Top A...
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise to let users prompt the tool using voice commands or by uploading an image, coming to all users “soon after”
and Look Into Your Life Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision still has flaws, paper reveals The Hill : ChatGPT given the ability to talk Laurent Giret / Thurrott : ChatGPT Can Now Ta...
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave, which is valued at $3B, is facing allegations of a money laundering scheme worth up to $215M in Kenya
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @restofworld , and @yinkawrites Tweets: @restofworld : Months after accusations of mismanagement and sexual harassment rocked the Nigerian fint...
A look at the rise of BNPL services in Nigeria as some doubt the success of local startups amid weak ID verification systems and scant consumer credit records
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld and @yinkawrites Tweets: @restofworld : Only 2% of Nigeria's 106 million adults have access to bank credit, and credit cards are also conspicuous...
How Parallel Wireless, a New Hampshire-based Open RAN vendor, is leading the charge to turn African mobile operators away from China's Huawei and ZTE
Abubakar Idris / Rest of World : Tweets: @yinkawrites , @nicdawes , @yinkawrites , and @restofworld Tweets: Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : The race to build Africa's 5G networks is entangled in a U.S...