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This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a brand new AI firm, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), only one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, alongside Jan Leike, was integral to OpenAI’s efforts to enhance AI security with the rise of “superintelligent” AI techniques. Yet each Sutskever and Leike left the corporate after a dramatic falling-out with management over the best way to strategy AI security.
In EV information, Fisker filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety, capping off months of issues with its Ocean SUV that included remembers and dozens of lemon regulation lawsuits. This is the second automobile firm Henrik Fisker named after himself that has wound up in chapter. His first effort began in 2007 and filed for chapter safety in 2013.
Change Healthcare this week confirmed {that a} February ransomware assault resulted within the theft of medical information affecting a “substantial proportion of people in America.” The firm processes affected person insurance coverage and billing for 1000’s of hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices and has entry to huge quantities of well being data on a few third of all Americans.
News
The Department of Justice vs. Adobe: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit towards Adobe alleging that the corporate hides termination charges and makes it troublesome to cancel subscriptions. Read extra
OpenAI acquires Rockset: OpenAI introduced that it has acquired Rockset, which builds instruments to drive real-time search and knowledge analytics, as the corporate continues to put money into its enterprise gross sales and tech orgs. Read extra
Buttons are again: Clicks launched a nostalgic, BlackBerry-esque telephone case that provides a keyboard with bodily buttons to the underside of your iPhone. We bought to attempt one for ourselves. Read extra
Where people and AI coexist: Butterflies is a social community the place people and AI work together with one another via posts, feedback and DMs in an effort to have extra inventive relationships with AI. Read extra
Apple kills Pay Later: After launching in late March 2023, Apple’s Pay Later characteristic isn’t any extra. Instead, Apple Pay customers will be capable of entry loans via a partnership with the third-party app Affirm. Read extra
Beware, Outlook customers: A researcher has discovered a bug that enables anybody to impersonate Microsoft company e-mail accounts, making phishing makes an attempt look credible and extra prone to trick their targets. Read extra
Perplexity takes on Google: The AI-powered search startup now shows outcomes for factual queries reminiscent of climate and time at a spot, forex conversion, and solutions to basic math queries instantly via playing cards. Read extra
Runway unveils Gen-3: The firm’s newest AI mannequin for producing movies delivers a “major” enchancment in velocity — in addition to extra management over the construction, model and movement of the generated movies. Read extra
Analysis
What ought to AI appear to be?: From black holes to colourful blobs, representing AI in person interfaces could be a problem. While approaches differ to branding purportedly all-seeing, all-knowing, all-doing intelligence, Devin Coldewey explores how corporations have coalesced round the concept that the avatar of AI must be non-threatening, summary, however comparatively easy and non-anthropomorphic. Read extra
Why Fisker failed: As Fisker information for Chapter 11 chapter safety, many are left questioning what’s subsequent for the ill-fated EV startup. Sean O’Kane argues that no matter occurs to Fisker or its property, it received’t change the basic drawback: that it wasn’t able to grapple with bringing a flawed automobile to market. Read extra
Pushing ChatGPT’s cultural limits: The present ChatGPT affords solutions which can be too generalized for particular questions that cater to sure communities, as its coaching seems Eurocentric and…
