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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be ‘unpredictable’

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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever spoke on a range of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, Friday afternoon before accepting an award for his contributions to the field. Sutskever gave his predictions for “superintelligent AI” — AI more capable than humans at many tasks, which he believes will be achieved at some point. Superintelligent AI […]

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Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model

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Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $250 million in a Series A led by AMD. Per Bloomberg, the round values Liquid AI at over $2 billion. Liquid AI aims to build general-purpose AI systems powered by a relatively new type of AI model called a liquid neural network. Liquid

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After Meta signals end to publisher payouts, Australia plots Big Tech news tax

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A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube’s parent Google to negotiate with news publishers to pay for journalism reshares. The News Media Bargaining Code forced Big Tech to cut deals with local news outlets. However, Meta has since moved away from promoting news on its platforms globally

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Bid to revive UK privacy damages suit against Google DeepMind fails to show class

Privacy /

Another attempt to get a class-action style privacy damages case to stick against Google has failed in the U.K. after the Court of Appeal refused to overturn an earlier dismissal. The lawsuit concerned the misuse of health records for some 1.6 million patients whose information was passed to Google’s AI division, DeepMind, back in 2015

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Apple reportedly developing AI server chip with Broadcom

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Apple is working with semiconductor company Broadcom on its first server chip designed to handle AI applications, according to The Information, which cited three people with knowledge of the project.  Apple is known for designing its own chips — called Apple Silicon and primarily manufactured by TSMC — for its devices. But those chips weren’t

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Mozilla removes ‘Do Not Track’ from Firefox because it was useless

Privacy /

Most web browsers currently have a feature called “Do Not Track” hidden in settings. In the case of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, Windows Report has spotted a change in the upcoming version — the setting is gone. But this doesn’t mean what you think it means. As the name suggests, if you have “Do Not Track”

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EU’s data protection supervisor reviewing Microsoft 365 report

Privacy /

Back in March, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 was found to have broken the bloc’s data protection rules. Since then, we haven’t heard much about this awkward situation. But Monday was the deadline for the EU’s executive to respond to the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) order requiring it to suspend any infringing

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Meta’s Nick Clegg says Elon Musk has potential to be a political ‘puppet master’

Government & Policy /

On a podcast with BBC’s Nick Robinson, Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, talked about how Elon Musk is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new U.S. administration.”  Clegg said he thinks that Elon Musk has a “choice” when it comes to his political future: to

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