OpenAI co-founder John Schulman has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. In addition, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is taking an extended leave after nine years at the company to “relax and recharge.” Schulman said his decision stemmed from a desire to deepen his focus on AI alignment — the science of […]
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Substack is opening up to more users with its recent announcement that anyone can now publish content on its platform without setting up a publication. With the change, Substack is likely looking to attract more types of writers and content creators, not just people who are interested in creating regularly distributed long-form written pieces. While
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Instagram is rolling out the ability for users to add up to 20 photos or videos to their feed carousels, as the platform embraces the trend of “photo dumps.” Back in 2017, Instagram added the ability to post up to 10 photos or videos in one swipeable carousel post. Now, you can post double the
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Facebook creators are being given a new option that will help them avoid jail — “Facebook jail,” that is — upon their first violation, and at various times after. In a revised policy, announced on Wednesday, social networking giant Meta said that creators who violate the company’s Community Standards for the first time will be
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Elon Musk’s X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans’ data to train AI models, RTE reported late on Tuesday. The development relates to the social media platform’s decision last month to process user data to train its “Grok” AI model without notifying or asking people if they’re okay with that. Last
X CEO Linda Yaccarino Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations – along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever – of what
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A fireside chat between Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg at SIGGRAPH 2024 took some unexpected turns. What started as a conversation about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg’s vision of an AI chatbot future quickly became a more casual affair — including a swap of custom-made jackets, a rare F-bomb from the Meta CEO,
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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has passed in the Senate after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed the internet bill to a vote. Proposed in 2022, KOSA requires that online platforms take reasonable steps to protect users from harm, and could become the most significant children’s online safety legislation to take effect since COPPA.
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We say something “goes viral” because we tend to think of rumors and disinformation spreading the way that an infection spreads. But these days it may be more accurate to say something “goes nuclear,” according to a new paper that models disinfo as a form of fission reaction. As common wisdom had it even before
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Matthew Patrick’s most unique achievement isn’t that he grew his YouTube account into a multi-channel media business with over 40 million subscribers. It’s that he managed to sell his company and successfully transition away from a career that’s so hard, both emotionally and logistically, to leave. In an emotional video posted earlier this year, Patrick
