Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise...
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested
bsky.app/profile/wire... [embedded post] @akhilrao : i feel like i've known Murati is at a startup called Thinking Machine Labs for months. maybe idk what “stealth” means [embedde...
Sources: OpenAI aims to integrate a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission
Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature — OpenAI plans to take a cut …
Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI negotiations if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake
ChatGPT maker's plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team ... like, $100M signing bonuses”, and “none of our best people” accepted
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta's …
OpenAI says it has seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
A profile of, and interview with, Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau on her career path, the FAIR lab, leading ~1,000 people across 10 locations, and more
Meta's head of research into the technology explains the career path that led to weighing questions on society's future X: @cristinacriddle X: Cristina Criddle / @cristinacriddle :...
How OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are using different approaches to improve “model behavior”, an emerging field shaping systems' responses and characteristics
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An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more
The messaging platform's director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app's 2bn users X: @cristinacriddle , @gateklons , @aservais1 , and @1br0wn X: Cr...
In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika
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Interviews with 24+ current and ex-ByteDance staff: the Beijing-based company has tightened its grip on TikTok over the past two years, causing a culture clash
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President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate passed it by 79-18; the House passed the legislation 360-58 on April 20
The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months …
Sources: Canada and the UAE have lobbied leading AI startups based in Europe, including Aleph Alpha, Synthesia, and Stability AI, to move their headquarters
Canada and UAE lobby companies amid global competition over developing cutting-edge technology — Leading European …
Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK's AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process
OpenAI and DeepMind want Britain's new AI safety institute to speed up evaluations of latest models — The world's biggest artificial …
Microsoft blocks the term “Disney” from Bing Image Creator over copyright concerns raised by a viral trend where users created Disney film posters of their pets
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : X: @kantrowitz , @brianroemmele , @cristinacriddle , and @mrgunn Forums: r/technews , r/StableDiffusion , and Ars OpenForum See also Mediagaze...
As the UK announces its National Semiconductor Strategy advisory panel, tech minister Paul Scully says the country plans to focus on chip design over subsidies
story today by @CristinaCriddle @ft https://t.co/... Luke / @l_account0 : UK's tech minister admits that “we are not going to recreate Taiwan in south Wales”. Well yes - this shoul...
Sources: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have met News Corp, the NYT, and others to discuss copyright issues over LLMs and a possible subscription fee
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Sources: TikTok restructures its ecommerce business to focus on markets where the service has already been introduced, like the UK, the US, and Southeast Asia
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Tweets: @cristinacriddle Tweets: Cristina Criddle / @cristinacriddle : SCOOP - TikTok has undergone a significant restructure in e-commerce: ✈...
Internal presentation: Google plans to deploy generative AI in ads, allowing advertisers to supply creative material which will be “remixed” to create campaigns
Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products