The updates come after @MarshaBlackburn and @SenBlumenthal sent letters to six companies — Google, Amazon, DoubleVerify, Integral Ads Science, MRC and TAG — in light of an @AdalyticsHQ report detailing ad tech’s role in monetizing problematic content.
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New Partnership Announcement in AI Technology Sector
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Wow, what a delicious week for us to have become partners! We love being in good company.
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ChatGPT Operator Rolls Out to Pro Users Globally
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Operator is now rolling out to Pro users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and most places ChatGPT is available. Still working on making Operator available in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein & Iceland—we’ll keep you updated!
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EU AI Regulation vs US Innovation Leadership Race
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“We Have the Best AI Regulation!” Meanwhile, across the room… OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are busy building the future. This meme perfectly sums up the AI race: The EU: Focused on regulating AI before dominating it. The US: Focused on leading AI
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ChatGPT reaches 400 million weekly active users milestone
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400 million weekly active users on ChatGPT:
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Social Media Platforms Role Tigray Genocide DAIR Research
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The role of social media platforms in #TigrayGenocide is
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Tech-Facilitated Genocide: RightsCon Taipei Conference Sessions
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Will you be Rightscon in Taipei? If so, say hi, I'll be attending the conference in person for the first time & will be participating in these 2 sessions All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.
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Digital Justice and Hate Speech: Indigenous and Tigray Struggles
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10:15am in Room 102, find me at @7amleh
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Meta Democratizes Language Technology with UNESCO Partnership Program
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In support of @UNESCO
’s work, we’re inviting collaborators to join us in democratizing language technology and building more inclusive AI systems with the Language Technology Partner Program https://
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AI Capabilities Reflect Researchers’ Competitive Backgrounds and Expertise
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Seems to be not a coincidence that what AI is good at is correlated with the backgrounds of AI researchers. Demis was a chess prodigy; Jakub (Chief Scientist) and Mark (CRO) of OpenAI were competitive programmers; many IMO medalists at OpenAI, x-ai. If our world initialized with