2024-09-18
“Mozilla said it would refocus its product strategy around Firefox and AI” [embedded post]
TechCrunch
Mozilla says it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, giving users until December 17 to export their data and migrate to another instance
https://techcrunch.com/... Mastodon: @shoq@mastodon.social : They had 270 users. It was always a token level of interest by an organization with lots of other problems to address....
2024-08-15
It's nice that he wants to look like a normal person instead of a monster. [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
Eric Schmidt says he “misspoke” when he said Google was losing the AI race because the company decided that “working from home was more important than winning”
Ex-Google CEO had said the tech company's work-life balance was ‘more important than winning’
2024-05-17
How are you gonna make that thing you fire people with if you don't fire people yourself? [embedded post]
The Information
AI coding startup Replit, which raised $220M+ and was last valued at $1B, lays off 30 employees, or 20% of its staff, and pivots to enterprise sales
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information :
2024-04-03
“So if you ask it to build a bomb right away, it will refuse. But if you ask it to answer 99 other questions of lesser harmfulness and then ask it to build a bomb... it's a lot more likely to comply.” [embedded post]
TechCrunch
Anthropic researchers detail “many-shot jailbreaking”, which can evade LLMs' safety guardrails by priming them with dozens of harmful queries in a single prompt
How do you get an AI to answer a question it's not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques …
2023-12-09
We fucked up and lied about it and now you agree we're cool. [embedded post]
Axios