Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who has been in the role since November 2023, is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the startup's Chief Revenue Officer
Another fantastic success story for a long-time Salesforce / Slack leader now helping shape the next chapter of AI at scale. … Denise Holland Dresser : After 14 incredible years, it's time for me to s...
OpenAI estimates ~0.07% of ChatGPT's weekly active users “indicate possible signs of mental health emergencies” like mania, and details its safety improvements
Millions use ChatGPT like a therapist, but that's about to change Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : Over 1 million ChatGPT users mention suicidal intent every week BBC : ChatGPT shares data on how many user...
How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M+ worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread … Bluesky: @brbarrett , @lhn , @mattburgess1 , and @couts . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Brian...
Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots
it's that Silicon Valley's view of freedom was always aligned with libertarianism, not progressivism. Levy suggests that Trump's “values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital ...
Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ... 1...
Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX. Bluesky: @dell , @brbarrett ...
The FBI and DHS say a drone dangling copper wires tried to disrupt a PA power substation in July 2020, the first drone attack targeting US energy infrastructure
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Clearview CEO says it has collected over 10B images from across the web and is building ways for police to find people, including deblurring and mask removal
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance. Tweets: @zittrain , @jetjocko , @brbarrett ...
Analysis: since August 2020, 100+ warships from 16+ countries have had GPS-based location data faked to make it look like they crossed into disputed territory
The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly. — ON SEPTEMBER 17 last year … Tweets: @essexcanning and @brbarrett Tweets: Stephen Canning / @essexcanning : The lat...
The FBI arrested a far-right extremist who allegedly plotted to destroy AWS data centers in Virginia with C-4; FBI was tipped off by posts following Jan. 6 riot
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