OpenAI completes its recapitalization, “simplifying” its structure; OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B and still controls the OpenAI for-profit
OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure. The nonprofit remains in control …
Stanford unveils the Foundation Model Transparency Index, featuring 100 indicators; Llama 2 led at 54%, GPT-4 placed third at 48%, and PaLM 2 took fifth at 40%
https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Mark Coggins / @coggins@mastodon.social : This is the kind of needed AI regulation—requiring model makers to reveal how they trained their language models—that #Ma...
Investigation: some stakeholders, like AI firms selling CSAM scanning tech, funded lobbying efforts for EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson's CSAM scanning proposal
the best follow the money reporting on who's behind the global attack on digital privacy yet. — TLDR: it's law enforcement x AI companies posing as NGOs w a commercial interest in selling scammy mas...
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification
and Meta is sharing the code Katie Paul / Reuters : Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images GitHub : Segment Anything — Meta AI Research, FAIR — [Paper] [Project] [Demo] [Data...
After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $1B ARB Tokens at Sta...
UK-based Coincover, which offers tools to protect digital assets from hacks or human error, raised $30M led by Foundation, bringing its total funding to $41.6M
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86
Apple, anti-gun violence messages dominate category Washington Post : Emmy nominations 2022: ‘Succession’ earns most nods; ‘Squid Game’ makes history Tweets: Atima Omara / @atima_omara : A very niche ...
Tencent joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, will take a seat on its board of directors, and will contribute open source software to the Foundation
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Google joins the .NET Foundation as Samsung adds support for it on its Tizen platform, deepening its commitment to the open source organization
Microsoft is hosting its annual Connect(); developer event in New York today. With .NET being at the core of many of its efforts …
MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building application...