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Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI security

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This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a brand new artificial intelligence company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), only a month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, together with Jan Leike, has played a key role in OpenAI’s efforts to enhance AI security because it develops “superintelligent” AI systems. However, each Sutskever and Leike left the corporate after a dramatic row with management over its approach to AI security.

In electric vehicle news, Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, ending months of problems for its Ocean SUV that included a recall and dozens of lemon lawsuits. This is the second Henrik Fisker automobile company named after him to declare bankruptcy. He began his first attempt in 2007, and in 2013 he filed for bankruptcy protection.

This week, Change Healthcare confirmed that a February ransomware attack led to the theft of medical records that affected “a significant portion of America’s population.” The company handles patient insurance and billing for hundreds of hospitals, pharmacies and doctor’s offices, and has access to vast amounts of health details about about one-third of all Americans.

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Department of Justice vs. Adobe: The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Adobe, accusing the corporate of hiding termination fees and making it tougher to cancel subscriptions. read more

OpenAI acquires Rockset: OpenAI announced that it has acquired Rockset, an organization that creates real-time search and data analytics tools, because it continues to take a position in its enterprise sales and technology organizations. read more

Buttons are back: Clicks has released a nostalgic BlackBerry-style phone case that adds a keyboard with physical buttons to the underside of the iPhone. We must try it ourselves. read more

Where humans and artificial intelligence coexist: Butterflies is a social network where humans and AI interact with one another through posts, comments, and chats in an effort to develop more creative relationships with AI. read more

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Apple kills Pay later: After launching in late March 2023, Apple Pay Later is not any longer available. Instead, Apple Pay users will give you the chance to access loans through a partnership with third-party app Affirm. read more

Attention Outlook users: A researcher has found a bug that permits anyone to spoof Microsoft corporate email accounts, making phishing attempts look legitimate and increasing the likelihood of defrauding targets. read more

Google takes over the embarrassment: AI-powered search now displays results for fact-based queries similar to location weather and time, currency conversions, and answers to basic math queries directly via cards. read more

Runway presents Gen-3: The company’s latest video generation artificial intelligence model guarantees “significant” speed improvements, in addition to greater control over the structure, style and movement of the generated videos. read more

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What should artificial intelligence appear like?: From black holes to paint blobs, representing AI in user interfaces could be a challenge. While approaches to branding a supposedly all-seeing, all-knowing, all-acting intelligence vary, Devin Coldewey explores how corporations have united around the concept an AI avatar needs to be non-threatening, abstract, but relatively easy and non-anthropomorphic. read more

Why Fisker Failed: As Fisker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, many are wondering what’s next for the ill-fated electric vehicle startup. Sean O’Kane argues that whatever happens to Fisker or its assets, it won’t change the basic problem: that it wasn’t prepared to take care of bringing a defective automobile to market. read more

Pushing ChatGPT’s Cultural Boundaries: The current ChatGPT offers answers which are too general to reply specific questions aimed toward specific communities because its training appears Eurocentric and Western in its bias. Because most AI models weren’t built with people of color in mind, Dominic-Madori Davis and Tage Kene-Okafor report on Black-owned chatbots and versions of ChatGPT which are designed specifically for Black and Brown communities and help founders capitalize on cultural OpenAI mishap. read more

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Palantir Exec defends work in the company’s immigration supervision

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One of the founders of the Y startup accelerator Y Combinator offered this weekend the Palantir Data Analytical Company that doesn’t describe the controversial analytical company, running the company’s director to supply a broad defense of Palantir’s work.

Then it appeared forward federal applications He showed that American immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) – the task of conducting the aggressive strategy of the deportation of the Trump administration – pays Palantir $ 30 million for creating What does this call the immigration system operating systemSo immigration to assist ICE resolve who to direct to the deportation, and likewise offer “real -time visibility” in self -complacency.

Y founding father of Combinator Paul Graham divided the headlines about the Palantir contract on the subject of XWriting: “It is now a very exciting time in technology. If you are a first -rate programmer, there is a huge number of other places where you can work, and not in a company building infrastructure of a police state.”

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In response, the global business head of Palantir Ted Mabrey wrote that “he is looking forward to the next set of employees who decided to submit a request to Palantir after reading your post.”

Mabrey didn’t discuss the details of the current work of Palantir with ice, but said that the company began cooperation with the Internal Security Department (in accordance with which ICE works) “in an immediate response to the assassination of agent Jaime Zapata by Zetas in an effort called Fallen Hero surgery. “

“When people live because of what you built and others were not alive, because what you built was not good enough yet, you develop a completely different view on the meaning of your work,” said Mabrey.

He also compared Graham’s criticism with protests on the Google Maven project in 2018, which ultimately prompted the company to stop the work of drone photos for the army. (Google then signaled that he again became more open to defense works.)

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Mabrey called everyone interested in working for Palantir to read the latest book CEO Alexander Karp “The Technological Republic”, which claims that the software industry must rebuild its relationship with the government. (The company was Recruitment at university campus With signs declaring that “the moment of counting arrived west”)

“We employ believers,” Mabrey continued. “Not in the sense of the homogeneity of religion, but in the internal ability to imagine in something greater than you

Graham then Pressed Mabrey “To publicly commit himself on behalf of Palantir, so as not to build things that help the government violate the US constitution,” although he confirmed in one other post that such a commitment “would not have legal force.”

“However, I hope that if (they make a commitment) and a Palantir’s employee is one day asked to do something illegal, he will say” I didn’t join for it “and refused,” wrote Graham.

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Mabrey in turn compared Graham’s query In order for “or” you promise to stop beating a trick in court, but he added that the company “has made so many ways from Sunday”, ranging from the commitment to “3,500 thoughtful people who polish only because they believe that they make the world a better place every day because they see their first hand.”

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Congress has questions about 23andme bankruptcy

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Low-angle view of logo on facade of personal genomics company 23AndMe in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

3 The leaders of the Energy and Trade Committee said that they’re investigating how 23ndme’s bankruptcy can affect customer data.

Representatives of Brett Guthrie, Gus Biliakis and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) He sent a letter On Thursday, Joe Selsavage, Joe Selsavage, ask a variety of questions about how 23andme will serve customer data if the corporate is sold.

The letter also says that some customers have reported problems with deleting their data from the 23ndme website, and notes that corporations directly for consumption, reminiscent of 23andme, are generally not protected by the Act on the portability and accountability of medical insurance (Hipaa).

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“Considering the lack of HIPAA protection, a patchwork of state regulations covering genetic privacy and uncertainty related to customer information in the case of transmitting the sale of company or clients data, we are afraid that this best -confidential information is threatened with a player,” representatives write.

23andme, which has decided to violate data For $ 30 million last 12 months, he applied for bankruptcy in Chapter 11 in March, and the co -founder and general director Anne Wojciki said he was resigning from the corporate’s private bidder.

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The White House replaces the Covid.gov page with the theory “Lab Leak”

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The Covid.gov government website has used Covid-19, tests and treatment to store information. Now, under the sight of President Trump, page redirects to the side of the White House Talking to the unverified theory that Covid-19 comes from the Chinese laboratory.

A theory during which many virologists have objected to in the report Through House Republicans last yr, which found that Pandemia began with a laboratory leak in China. House democrats He spent the overthrow At that point, the statement that the probe didn’t define Cavid’s real origin.

Covidtes.Gov website, during which people could order free coronavirus tests before, can be redirected to this New page.

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The latest website of the White House also includes medical disinformation on the treatment of the virus, falsely claiming that social distance, mask and lock fines should not effective in alleviating the spread of Covid-19. However, Hundreds of research They showed that these preventive measures In fact, reduce respiratory infections equivalent to Covid-19.

In the months, since Trump again confirmed his role of the US president, many web sites have been edited to reflect the program of his administration. With the help of Doge Elona Musk, the government tried to remove tons of of words related to diversity from government documents. This Include Words equivalent to “black”, “disability”, “diversity”, “sex”, “racism”, “women” and lots of more. The government also removed the mention of scientifically proven climate change from environmental sites.

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