Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors
everyone involved knows it doesn't have to Assad Jafri / CryptoSlate : OpenAI mulls dropping profit restrictions ahead of $100 billion valuation push Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI could repo...
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July
doubling in a year Laurent Giret / Thurrott : OpenAI Says ChatGPT Doubled its User Base to 200 Million Weekly Active Users in a Year Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : ChatGPT weekly active users grow to 20...
Intuit plans to cut 10% of its global workforce, or ~1,800 employees, and rehire the same number, primarily in its engineering, product, and sales divisions
Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi sent the following note to Intuit employees today: Sheryl Estrada / Fortune : Exclusive: Intuit is laying off 1,800 employees as AI leads to a strategic shift Brandon Vigliar...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
here's how it works Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Work From Borg — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology … Tristan Greene / TNW : Facebook's Metaverse is just...
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear
But On A Sliding Scale James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Intel's new hate speech-purging AI Bleep comes under criticism Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech lets you choose exactl...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
Facebook: vulnerability was the result of 3 distinct bugs and was introduced in July 2017, attackers could use the account as if they were the account holder
and may get even worse Chris Davies / SlashGear : Facebook hack put 50m users' private info at risk Kurt Wagner / Recode : Hackers may have accessed 50 million Facebook accounts in a new security brea...
Apple becomes the world's only company with a $1T market cap
combined! Edward C. Baig / USA Today : How Tim Cook and the iPhone made Apple America's first $1 trillion company Surur / MSPoweruser : Apple beats Microsoft, Google and Amazon to $1 trillion valuatio...
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse
It's Selling Facial Recognition To U.S. Cops Tristan Greene / The Next Web : Amazon's facial recognition is now aiding US law enforcement Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Amazon Rekognition for government s...