Australian telco Optus tells lawmakers it had no plan to address total outage - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed (www.theguardian.com)
‘Shocking’ scale of UK government’s secret files on critics revealed::Dossiers were compiled by 15 departments after scouring social media activity to vet people invited to speak at official events
Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI exposes growing rift in AI industry (www.washingtonpost.com) Japanese
Questions remain about what spurred the board’s decision to oust Altman, but growing tensions became impossible to ignore as Altman rushed to make OpenAI the next big technology company.
BSD Cafe - The Community for BSD Based Systems (gyptazy.ch)
Toward a real-time decoding of images from brain activity (youtu.be)
Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. A team of researchers and also Meta have just achieved this feat by using AI. This episode takes a look at it. Links:...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team (www.theverge.com)
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team::Meta is in the midst of a reshuffling of its AI teams, and has reportedly split up its responsible AI development team
Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source (techcrunch.com)
The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data)....
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)
Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)
Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from...
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI — Microsoft CEO Nadella "furious"; OpenAI President and three senior researchers resign. (arstechnica.com)
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI — Microsoft CEO Nadella “furious”; OpenAI President and three senior researchers resign.::Microsoft CEO “furious”; OpenAI President and 3 researchers resign. COO says “No malfeasance.”
Time to celebrate: Tutanota is now Tuta. (tuta.com)
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team (www.theverge.com)
Forbes Innovation Venture Capital OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO (www.forbes.com)
Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
Where have all the users gone? How Google's actions could degrade the open internet and what publishers can do to stop it. (www.thecurrent.com)
TSMC founder discusses IC cooperation with Japan PM at APEC summit (focustaiwan.tw)
Why Apple is working hard to break into its own iPhones (www.independent.co.uk)
Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism (www.independent.co.uk)
Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism::Tesla founder threatens to take action against media watchdog ‘the split second court opens on Monday’
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that’s different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles | E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles | E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.::E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
Ousted OpenAI C.E.O. Makes Plans for New Artificial Intelligence Company (www.nytimes.com)
Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues (www.theverge.com)
SpaceX Starship rocket lost in second test flight (edition.cnn.com)
SpaceX Starship rocket lost in second test flight::SpaceX will make its second attempt to successfully launch Starship, a gargantuan rocket designed to carry humans to the moon and Mars.
