Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI security

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.

News

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

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

Analysis

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