The AI Action Summit in Paris was all about investment and competition as the Trump administration made even a token acknowledgment of AI safety unacceptable
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and more are clear on the need for consideration of “safety” as we develop AI. Musk seems fine with SkyNet. [embedded post]
Leaked draft: the statement set to be signed at the Paris AI Action Summit barely mentions AI risks and fails to follow up on commitments from previous Summits
an omission which would represent a huge blow to the Summit's French organizers. [image] Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : Other experts criticised the statement too. @_andreamiotti called it “a wasted oppor...
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints
I'd love them to go ahead and sue any end user of generative AI whose content appears to contain their copyrighted material. … X: Paris Marx / @parismarx : “No part of this book may be used or reprodu...
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
the equivalent of massive unregistered campaign donations; most of it is dangerous, obliterating the fragile guardrails in our democratic process; all of it is not normal and not ethical. — If you s...
Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone
Pavel Durov had lunch with the French president six years ago. His phone was hacked the previous year by French and U.A.E. spies.
Microsoft says Delta, which said it had to manually reset ~40K PC servers because of CrowdStrike, had “not modernized its IT infrastructure” and refused “help”
says airline refused help following CrowdStrike outage, and even ignored an email from Satya Nadella himself Jak Connor / TweakTown : Microsoft responds to Delta's threats over $500 million CrowdStrik...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
Some marketing agencies say their brands don't plan to return to advertise on X, and others are advising brands to stop posting on X, after Elon Musk's comments
yourself’ comment to advertisers Rocio Fabbro / The Messenger : Some Advertisers Won't Return to X After Musk's Profanity-Filled Tirade Jak Connor / TweakTown : X advertisers say they won't be returni...
A look at Apple's Paris lab to test hardware security, and an interview with Apple's head of security engineering about Lockdown Mode, app sideloading, and more
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Discord, Vimeo, and others sign up to the Christchurch Call to Action, established after a 2019 mass killing to suppress extremist content
Ardern sat down with Axios in Paris Friday to explain how AI is changing her approach to extremist content.