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Vitalik Buterin warns about dangers of superintelligent AI

cryptobriefing.com Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned about the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly superintelligent AI. He believes a hypothetical type of…

OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers

economist.com Pity OpenAI’s lawyers. On February 29th Elon Musk added yet another problem to their list by suing the maker of ChatGPT, a wildly popular artificial-intelligence (AI)…

Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI

economist.com SOME RACES are over before they get going. So it can seem in the contest to make large language models (LLMs). These algorithms power ChatGPT-like “generative” artificial…

The age of the unicorn is over

economist.com Business has never been better for America’s tech giants. After slumping in 2022, the combined market value of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft has surged by 70%,…

Vladimir Putin wants to catch up with the West in AI

economist.com SIX YEARS ago, before anyone had heard of ChatGPT, Vladimir Putin said that the country that led the development of artificial intelligence (AI) would become the “ruler of…

The AI safety movement is waning

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from Fast Company, Bloomberg, and Wired The News Sixteen of the world’s top AI companies made fresh commitments to develop safe AI…

LaunchDarkly Unveils Software Release Platform for the "Ship at the Speed of Now" Era

benzinga.com OAKLAND, Calif., May 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- , the platform that helps engineers build products that customers love, set the stage for "shipping at the speed of now"…

The exciting, perilous journey toward AGI

ted.com Just weeks before the management shakeup at OpenAI rocked Silicon Valley and made international news, the company's cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever explored the…

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

wired.com For the past decade, AI researcher Chris Olah has been obsessed with artificial neural networks. One question in particular engaged him, and has been the center of his work,…

Perspective

washingtonpost.com In September, OpenAI said a new talking version of its ChatGPT assistant that sounded like Scarlett Johansson wasn’t meant to resemble the actress. The company said so again…

Retire in Style: 3 Stocks to Buy Now for a Plush Future

investorplace.com Extreme long term growth stocks are perfect for those who want a fatter retirement If you’re looking to retire comfortably with a jumbo-sized nest egg, focus on businesses…

Microsoft Build live updates: CEO Satya Nadella announces Copilot and other AI news at annual developer conference

aol.com None Microsoft's Build keynote kicked off at 12 p.m. ET on Tuesday. • None CEO Satya Nadella is expected to give updates on Microsoft's generative AI products, like Copilot.…

WitnessAI is building guardrails for generative AI models

techcrunch.com Generative AI makes stuff up. It can be biased. Sometimes, it spits out toxic text. So can it be “safe”? Rick Caccia, the CEO of WitnessAI, believes it can. “Securing AI…

French AI startup H raises $220 million seed round

techcrunch.com It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced a $220 million seed round…

This Crypto Startup Says You Can Earn Rewards By Training Its AI

decrypt.co New AI startup FLock wants to entice users to help train its large language model with a crypto rewards program, the company told Decrypt on Tuesday. Through a token…

Where's The Demand? Alibaba Slashes AI Pricing By Up To 97%, Igniting Discount War Across China

zerohedge.com Where's The Demand? Alibaba Slashes AI Pricing By Up To 97%, Igniting Discount War Across China The release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022 sparked a generative artificial…

Scarlett Johansson vs ChatGPT: Compare the voices

newsweek.com OpenAI's recent launch of "Sky," an AI voice assistant for its latest ChatGPT model, has sparked controversy and drawn immediate comparisons to Scarlett Johansson's role in…

Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability, adds support for OpenAI's GPT-4o, and announces a new multimodal model in its lightweight Phi-3 family

windowscentral.com What you need to know • Microsoft's Azure AI Studio just shipped to broad availability to help developers build custom Copilot apps. • OpenAI's GPT-4o model has also been…

Microsoft unveils GPT-4o for Azure, new AI apps in fight against Google, Amazon

aol.com on Tuesday debuted a host of new AI features during its Build conference in Seattle, including OpenAI’s new GPT-4o, a trio of small language models, and Microsoft’s new…

Tech companies join to make commitment to safety at AI Seoul Summit

euronews.com The agreement by 16 tech companies comes as a second AI safety summit is being held this week in South Korea. Tech companies have agreed on a set of safety commitments on…

Google, Meta, Microsoft, Others Agree on AI ‘Red Lines’

asiafinancial.com Sixteen global tech giants, including Alphabet’s Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, have vowed to commit themselves to the safe development of AI. The pledge, which also…

OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI

fortune.com In July 2023, OpenAI unveiled a new team dedicated to ensuring that future AI systems that might be more intelligent than all humans combined could be safely controlled. To…

Microsoft launches free AI assistant for all educators in U.S. in deal with Khan Academy

cnbc.com Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers in the U.S. for free. Khanmigo for Teachers, which helps…

Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms

techcrunch.com Microsoft’s big focus at this year’s Build conference is generative AI. And to that end, the tech giant announced a series of updates to its platforms for building…

UK data protection watchdog ends privacy probe of Snap’s GenAI chatbot, but warns industry

techcrunch.com The UK’s data protection watchdog has closed an almost year-long investigation of Snap’s AI chatbot, My AI — saying it’s satisfied the social media firm has addressed…

ChatGPT Suspends Scarlett Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up

zerohedge.com ChatGPT Suspends Scarlett Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up OpenAI, which is losing key execs at a rapid pace - has made the choice to "pause" its new ChatGPT voice…

OpenAI cofounder says artificial general intelligence is coming fast

aol.com None OpenAI's John Schulman says artificial general intelligence could be two to three years away. • None Schulman emphasizes the need for tech companies to cooperate for…

AI Startup Scale Secures $1B From Investors Including AMD, Amazon & Meta, Doubling Valuation To $13.8B

benzinga.com Scale AI Inc. has announced that it has closed a $1 billion financing transaction at a $13.8 billion valuation. The financing was led by existing investor Accel with nearly…

Scarlett Johansson took on Disney. Now she’s battling OpenAI over a ChatGPT voice that sounds like hers

aol.com Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Amal Clooney weighs in on the war in Gaza, Jean Liu changes roles at the ride-hailing company she cofounded, and Scarlett Johansson thought…

Johansson deplores 'eerily similar' ChatGPT voice

theweek.com Scarlett Johansson said Monday she was "shocked" and "angered" when OpenAI debuted a new voice for ChatGPT that "sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends"…

SAG-AFTRA applauds Scarlett Johansson for rebuking OpenAI over voice that sounded like her

nbcnews.com SAG-AFTRA, the labor union that represents thousands of Hollywood actors, commended Scarlett Johansson for publicly calling out OpenAI for using a voice that sounded "eerily…

Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha

techcrunch.com Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into…

Training AI To Target People Better

mediapost.com Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly is being used to reduce the amount of data required to successfully target ads online. Through a partnership with Similarweb, which…

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice Without Consent

vanityfair.com Over the weekend, Colin Jost was forced to tell a joke about his wife, Scarlett Johansson, during Saturday Night Live’s season finale. As part of his annual joke swap with…

Vitalik Buterin stresses AI risks amid OpenAI leadership upheaval

cointelegraph.com Vitalik Buterin calls superintelligent AI "risky" amid leadership upheavals at OpenAI, stressing the need for caution and decentralization in AI development.

OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson saga reveals an 'ask forgiveness, not permission' problem

aol.com None OpenAI's long-running strategy might be in hot water. • None The ChatGPT maker has faced claims that it has used artists' work to train AI, without permission. • None…

OpenAI cofounder says AGI is coming fast

businessinsider.com By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on…

Scale AI Raises $1 Billion at Nearly $14 Billion Value

pymnts.com Scale AI raised $1 billion in a funding round that valued it at $13.8 billion. The company announced the Series F round in a Tuesday (May 21) blog post, saying it would use…

Empire Newsletter: SEC about-face fires up ETH ETF hype-loop

blockworks.co ETFs with a side of chaos Looks like Gary Gensler’s SEC isn’t so anti-ETH ETF after all. Let’s start with the most recent news. Early this morning, Fidelity filed an…

Learning how to use AI could boost your pay by 25%, study finds

siliconvalley.com By Anna Cooban | CNN London — Jobs that require artificial intelligence skills offer significantly higher wages than those that don’t, according to new research published…

Meta Joins AI Safety Collective To Ensure Responsible Development

socialmediatoday.com As it continues to develop more advanced AI models, and work towards automated general intelligence (AGI), Meta is also keen to establish best practice guardrails and safety…

Lianhe Sowell Eyes Big Potential For Machine Vision AI With U.S. IPO Plan

benzinga.com Lianhe Sowell is seeking to raise $12 million through a U.S. IPO, with plans to spend some of the funds towards expanding its R&D workforce • The machine vision company has…

Video: Scarlett Johansson takes on OpenAI over chatbot voice

theglobeandmail.com Scarlett Johansson on May 20 accused OpenAI of creating a voice for the ChatGPT system that sounded 'eerily similar' to the actress after she declined to voice the chatbot…

Vitalik Buterin says Sam Altman should not get $7 trillion funding for AI semiconductor super farm

cryptoslate.com Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has voiced his concerns regarding the rapid development of superintelligent AI and the concentration of power within the AI…

Fireworks in Tehran

reason.com What happens next in Iran? Yesterday, I reported on the death of Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and President Ebrahim Raisi—seen as the likely successor to…

Global AI leaders agree to safety rules at Seoul summit

siliconrepublic.com UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, said the AI Seoul Summit is a ‘world first’ which brings together leading companies from across the world, including the US, China and the…

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Advocates For Open Source AI, Here’s Why

coingape.com In a recent debate over the future of artificial intelligence (AI), Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has voiced his support for open-source AI models. Meanwhile, this…

Google's search dominance drops to a 15-year low, CNN, USA Today, and LA Times get hit by Google's site reputation abuse policy, Google CEO on future of…

omny.fm In episode #2743, we discuss changes in Google's search engine share, the use of AI in content generation, Google's programmatic TV plans, Apple's new iPad and leasing…

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