Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals
(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a ...
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Elon Musk says a Twitter deal at a lower price wouldn't be “out of the question”, speaking to a Miami tech conference crowd
tweeting, flirting with buying it, owning libs, etc. But it's a waste of your talents and time. And it's unfair to Twitter employees. What you have done with SpaceX, Tesla, etc., is so inspiring and i...
A look at anonymity in crypto, as some VCs back founders without learning their names and pseudonymous entrepreneurs control hundreds of millions of dollars
Investors give money to pseudonymous developers. Venture capitalists back founders without learning their real names. Tweets: @hshaban , @jessefelder , @nytimestech , @blackamazon , @nytimestech , @y...
Investigation shows Accenture is Facebook's biggest content moderation partner, employing over a third of its moderators, with annual contracts exceeding $500M
and none have been more important than Accenture. https://www.nytimes.com/... Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : Accenture doing content moderation for Facebook. Seems like a downgrade. The Silent Par...
A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphnehk , @noupside , @b...
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
this should significantly escalate the political pressure to finally counter the ransomware ecosystem https://www.bloomberg.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Maybe it was a four hundred pound eigh...
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web
A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power. Tweets: @albertwenger , @benweinthal , @andrew__roth , @rasmus_kleis , @jaycuthrell ,...
Leaked screenshots show GitHub employees using the term “Nazi” in its internal Slack to protest the unexplained firing of an employee that used the same word
Now in protest, they're using Slack to call Nazis what they are — GitHub employees are protesting the firing … Tweets: @zoeschiffer , @bascule , @hshaban , @wwahammy , @find_evil , and @reckless Twe...