Wall Street’s Best Ideas: What, Google worry? I’m reminded of what venture capitalist Roger McNamee said to me last November: “Each anti-trust case unleashed one or more massive new industries […] The target company always went to new stock price highs that continued more or
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Hugging Face space for object eraser to purge political party
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Off with the enemy of the people! ✮☭ This great Space helps you purge your political party: https://
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Microsoft denies responsibility for Delta flight cancellations in CrowdStrike outage
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new: a lawyer representing Microsoft replied to David Boies' letter about Delta's flight cancellations stemming from the CrowdStrike outage. the lawyer says crew-tracking system runs on IBM, not Windows or Azure
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AI Policy Must Balance Innovation With Appropriate Restrictions
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#AI is a civilizational technology that will have profound implications to everyone. "AI policy must encourage innovation, set appropriate restrictions, and mitigate the implications of those restrictions. Policy that doesn't will at best fall short of its goals, and at worst
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Musk’s Platform Control: Civil War Rhetoric and Reach
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It is clearly a noteworthy fact that Musk owns the same platform he is using to spread comments like "civil war is inevitable" – i.e. it is not just his 190m followers he's sharing that comment with, but X's entire userbase.
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California’s SB-1047 Bill Threatens AI Research and Open Source
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I’m deeply concerned about California’s SB-1047, Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. While well intended, this bill will not solve what it is meant to and will deeply harm #AI academia, little tech and the open-source community.
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OpenAI Co-founder Takes Sabbatical While Pursuing Safe AGI
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I’m taking a sabbatical through end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from complete; we still have a safe AGI to build.
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AI-Powered Idiocracy: A Dystopian Future Concern
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You thought idiocracy was bad? Wait until it's AI-powered.
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Google loses major DOJ antitrust lawsuit over search dominance
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not OK google https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2024-08-05/google-loses-doj-antitrust-suit-over-search?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
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DOJ prosecution case strategy and regulatory oversight
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(FTR, I did think the DOJ would lose, but it was the right kind of case to prosecute, unlike some chosen by other agencies)