How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Snap announces a deal to incorporate Perplexity's search engine into Snapchat from 2026; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity
https://lnkd.in/... Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : You gotta spend money to lose money [embedded post] Mark Riedl / @markriedl : I thought people were supposed to pay AI companies for their serv...
Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ... 1...
Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management
Anthropic had sonnet-3.7 run a shop in their SF headquarters. It was tasked with running s profitable business — Their eye popping experiment is worth the read — Was it successful? No, it was to...
Court filings from in-ear hardware device startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's efforts to build a mass-market AI device
From iyO's home page: … Like I wrote yesterday, I'd never heard of iyO before. Alex Hughes / Tom's Guide : OpenAI court filings just revealed new details on AI device with Jony Ive Mahnoor Faisal / La...
House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI models for 10 years
triggered by official GOP tweet — fire back at ‘worthless’ reps Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Republicans Push Bill to Ban State AI Regulation for 10 Years Bluesky: Rep. Rheingans / @reprheingans : 🚨 fed Repu...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields
There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Bluesky: @markriedl , @coocho , @melaniemitchell , and @...
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, gives an “early preview” of its first project, an AI system that can generate game-like, 3D scenes from an image
Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence … Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : The Prompt: Elon Musk Wants To Stop OpenAI From Becoming A For-Profit ‘Frankenstein’ Stuart Dredge / Musi...
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors
[images] Abraham Samma / @abesamma@toolsforthought.social : Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training — This is some sci-fi stuff right here (even if unsurprising)...