Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity (Sam Altman/@sama)
Sam Altman / @sama : Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision ab…
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired : Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide de…
MSI Claw handheld review: more comfortable grips than ROG Ally or Legion Go but inexcusably bad performance and battery life, Windows holds back handheld gaming (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge : MSI Claw handheld review: more comfortable grips than …
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more (Greg Brockman/@gdb)
Greg Brockman / @gdb : Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they&#…
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 202…
Another nasty Mac malware is spoofing legitimate software to target macOS users
Cybersecurity researchers from Intego have discovered new variants of the dreaded Cuc…
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years (Jan Leike/@janleike)
Jan Leike / @janleike : [Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has lef…
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities featur…
Ransomware attacks hijack Windows Quick Assist feature
Hackers have been observed combining spam, a classic IT tech support scam, and Window…
Figma is letting staff and early investors sell up to $900M of shares in a tender at a $12.5B valuation, down ~38% from Adobe's $20B acquisition proposal (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Cory Weinberg / The Information : Figma is letting staff and early investors sell u…
TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let media companies post full TV show episodes and put TikTok in even more direct competition with YouTube (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, which would let medi…
LG's cheapest OLED TV just crashed to a new record-low price ahead of Memorial Day
The LG B3 is ranked in our best TV list as the best cheap OLED display, thanks to it…
Google unveils Android 15 security features, like Theft Detection Lock, which detects motions associated with theft, and Private Space, to store sensitive data (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Allison Johnson / The Verge : Google unveils Android 15 security features, like The…
Google debuts Veo, a text-to-video model that outputs at 1080p resolution, and Imagen 3, its highest quality image generation model with improved text rendering (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget : Google debuts Veo, a text-to-video model that output…
Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026 (Washington Post)
Washington Post : Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will thr…
OpenAI opens its GPT Store to all users for free, including the ability to create custom GPTs (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Wes Davis / The Verge : OpenAI opens its GPT Store to all users for free, including…
Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employees on Outlook and Teams better coordinate in-office time, with Copilot integration coming this year (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft unveils Places, an AI-powered app to help employ…
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Monday, May 13 (game #71)
Another week of Strands puzzles kicks off with what I'd say is a nice straightfor…
Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representatives to propose a new performance-based compensation regime, as Amazon and Netflix work on similar plans (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple has met with Hollywood talent representativ…
Researcher Sonia Livingstone says constraining tech companies and empowering young people and parents are better alternatives to banning kids from social media (Henry Mance/Financial Times)
Henry Mance / Financial Times : Researcher Sonia Livingstone says constraining tech…
Following attempts to malign Signal as insecure by Telegram's CEO and Elon Musk, a look at why Signal is widely regarded by experts as more secure than Telegram (Matthew Green/@matthew_d_green)
Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : Following attempts to malign Signal as insecure b…
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, May 12 (game #70)
Here's a nice, easy Strands puzzle from the NYT to end the weekend. It shouldn…
The UK government's new AI safety body releases Inspect, an evaluation tool for AI model capabilities, including models' core knowledge and ability to reason (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : The UK government's new AI safety body releases Ins…
How Trump is courting crypto traders, as GOP becomes increasingly friendly toward crypto while key Democrats remain at odds and SEC cracks down on the industry (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
Jasper Goodman / Politico : How Trump is courting crypto traders, as GOP becomes in…
Sources: Arm plans to set up an AI chip division, aiming to build a prototype by spring 2025, with mass production expected to start later in the year (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : Sources: Arm plans to set up an AI chip division, aiming to build a p…
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig …
LLM services are being hit by hackers looking to sell on private info
Using cloud-hosted large language models (LLM) can be quite expensive, which is why h…
OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo "some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates", which Sam Altman says are "not gpt-5, not a search engine" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to de…
Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses of US Cellular for $2B+; Verizon is also in talks with US Cellular (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations…
Security flaws in BIG-IP system could have put entire networks at risk
BIG-IP Next Central Manager (NCM), a centralized management and orchestration platfor…
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming …
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