… In April 2018, about 4,000 employees signed a petition demanding that Google remove itself from the “business of war.” The letter said a Google executive had assured Googlers their tech “will not ‘operate or fly drones’ and ‘will not be used to launch weapons.’” But “while this eliminates a narrow … …
OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. …
… A disclosure spotted by TechCrunch says the incident prompted the toymaker to activate “its security response protocols.” Hasbro says it’s currently working to determine the impact of the breach, but it will continue to “take orders, ship product and conduct other key operations.” Hasbro says it wa… …
… Operating that way — from a place of cowardice in service of tech-driven profits — is antithetical to producing good art.
… It was a complete blindspot in my state of learning this new technology and understanding it, and I’m sure there are others making the same mistake,” said Starr, a project manager in the tech sector. …
… What I see when I encounter clips like this is the true gap between the tech industry and regular people when it comes to AI — the limit of software brain. Like I said, everyone in tech understands how much regular people dislike AI. …
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… The Senate Commerce Committee is holding its first hearing on sports betting and prediction markets, and in a sign that the tech industry is really tech industry-ing, they’re sending in the big guns. …
… Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal — an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company’s new AI model. …
… One of their first ads criticized Bores for working at Palantir during a period where the controversial tech company had contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and suggested that Bores was hypocritical for now saying he wanted to abolish ICE. …