OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
and accelerate research all over the world. Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : I wasn't clear enough with my last post but this is clearly just a play to steal taxpayer dollars from NSF, NIH, DoE, DoD, etc. ...
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel. — www.nbcnews.com/p...
CISA's Einstein, which cost billions and monitors US agencies' networks for bad actors, missed the SolarWinds hack, which now counts the NIH among its victims
When Russian hackers first slipped their digital Trojan horses into federal government computer systems, probably sometime in the spring …
Palantir reports post-IPO earnings with Q3 revenue of $289.4M vs est. of $279.4M, up 52% YoY, and says it has secured new contracts with the US Army and NIH
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy
And An FBI Warning Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : ‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom's Password Problems Kari Paul / The Guardian : ‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing pl...
Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey outlines … Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek : Twitter Will Fund the Development of a Decentralized Social Media Standard Rob Price / Business Insider : Twitter is trying to build a n...
Source: NIH and Google planned to launch a dataset of 100K chest X-rays in 2017, scrapped project days before launch, after finding personal info on some images
Fumbled project with NIH highlights potential pitfalls of Google's ambitions with sensitive health data
Search Whiz Udi Manber Leaves Google
Google veteran Udi Manber, a computer scientist best known for his work on search, has left the company to join the National Institutes of Health. — “I had a wonderful nine years at Google and YouTu...