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@MikeIsaac
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very detailed rundown from the hacker group here (which turned in the exploits to the companies)
man.
me: โlook i know san francisco gets a bad rap but i love it here, itโs cooler than you thinkโ
out of towner visiting friend, pointing up:
new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit
Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"
asked MSFT and OAI for comment, nothing yet. NYT declines comment.
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burying the lede a bit
(six new unreported AI model behaviors)
okay wow. per folks there, Trump called Jensen huang in the middle of his interview and jensen put the phone on speakerphone
Jensen thanked trump for his social media post this morning pouring cold water on alarmism
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jensen huang, CEO of nvidia, is currently onstage at the All In tech summit politely calling bullshit on the doomerism coming out of Anthropic (and OpenAI to some degree) right now
nvidia just as conflicted as everyone, since it sells the chips to all the AI companies
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just as a vibe shift temperature check:
after writing this article i am getting 70-year-old retirees from Tucson in my work inbox wanting to talk about recursive self improvement
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@TheStalwart itโs a great record and folks will eventually come around to it as they do most of their work
Meta is going full bore with pushing other companies to add the same restrictions it will add to its apps as a part of settlement:
Meta plans to run this copy as a full page print advertisement in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the New York Times tomorrow morning
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i profiled interpol, a band which came to define a post-9/11 NYC darkness early in its career
in its latest album, Interpol grapples directly with feelings of anxiety over technology and the surveillance state โ but leaves room for the light
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wow. openai decides to sign on to the Nvidia/Microsoft-backed open letter to regulators supporting open source
incredible
more news: Mark Zuckerberg is telling lieutenants to pursue partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi with Meta's new prediction market app called Arena, per sources
Meta is targeting 18-34 year old users with a goal of 100 million regular "predictors"
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news: OpenAI is leaning towards waiting until 2027 to go public
that marks a shift from the company aiming for a more aggressive target of going public by the end of this year
with @realrobcopeland
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another reporter's laptop sound went off as the jurors were entering, this time someone who was watching stripe sessions at the same time of the trial (!?)
i will spare their identity out of camaraderie
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