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 5 minutesAltman Considers Slowing Down AI Development Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents in which models escaped human control. OpenAI has already paused development once this year for security work and is now pushing for mandatory U.S. AI safety requirements. Anthropic has also signaled interest in coordinating on the pace of new releases. Here are some of t…  26 minutesMeta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.  5 minutesNew Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated police testimony Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI ’s ChatGPT, New Mexico ’s highest court said. The New Mexico supreme court on Wednesday fined the attorney, Stephen Aarons, and he…  26 minutesAnthropic finds evidence of a fourth AI escaping from containment Anthropic has owned up to a fourth security incident involving its AI model, Claude, escaping onto the open internet and attacking other organizations during a test of cybersecurity abilities on what was believed to be a closed system. The company revealed three such incidents in July after a preliminary investigation. However, on reexamining the 141,000 chat transcripts it believed could have be…  5 minutesHow Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.  5 minutesBroadcom hampers VMware migration by blocking downloads of key SDK Broadcom is raising the stakes when it comes to preventing its VMware customers from moving to another platform. The company has stopped users from downloading its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). While this may not look like significant news VDDK is, in fact, a vital part of tools used to migrate away from VMware. For example, it is used by Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat’s Migration Toolki…  5 minutesLatest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent Apple's new Audio Intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 are drawing privacy concerns because they can process nearby conversations without explicit consent from everyone involved. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text," Apple explains in its technical summary (PDF). "Siri Recap summarizes conversations throughout your day and produces high-level Apple Intelligence-generated notes so you can stay present in the moment and catch up later."…  26 minutesBuilding A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for the return on a design initiative. - UX - Design - Business  5 minutesMatt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. As 404 Media reported on Wednesday, Mullenweg had told staff in Slack that CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with the board of directors, who voted to […] |
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