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Open AI’s Chief Scientist Resigns
May 15, 2024
Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist of OpenAI and a key innovator in the field of artificial intelligence, announced on Tuesday on X that he was leaving the Microsoft-backed startup for an unspecified new project. Additionally, Sutskever co-founded the company in 2015. She assisted in the board’s removal of CEO Sam Altman, but she quickly changed her mind and supported Altman’s return. Jan Leike, another executive who worked with Sutskever on preserving future AI and was considered as his supporter also quit, says a person who was told about it.
The resignations came after months of conjecture about whether Sutskever would make amends with Altman and stay at the ChatGPT founder despite the prior controversy. Sutskever did not come back to the new OpenAI.
Recently, there has been another executive transition at OpenAI. The Information revealed last week that two top executives from OpenAI, Chris Clark, the head of strategic initiatives and nonprofit, and Diane Yoon, the vice president of people, had departed the firm. Another founding member of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy, departed in February. Furthermore, Leike and Sutskever’s team member was recently let go by OpenAI for allegedly unlawfully exchanging information with third parties. All the same, the corporation still brings in researchers from prestigious firms; lately, it hired a former head of Google’s search advertising.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyTik Tok Files Lawsuit: Says Ban Is Unconstitutional
May 8, 2024
On Tuesday, TikTok said that it has filed a petition in federal court to reverse the ban on the app in the United States. The Chinese business that controls TikTok, ByteDance, filed a complaint against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting an examination of the ban’s validity.
TikTok said that the law is “unconstitutional,” claiming it’s “so obviously unconstitutional, in fact, that even the Act’s sponsors recognized that reality, and therefore have tried mightily to depict the law not as a ban at all, but merely a regulation of TikTok’s ownership.”
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyByteDance The Owner Of TikTok Fires 61 Employees In Their Anti Corruption Push
April 30, 2024
China’s law enforcement agencies are reportedly looking into four people for possible offenses, according to the local media. Among them are two former employees of Douyin, the Chinese name for TikTok.
According to Jiemian News, one of them was arrested in March for falsely inflating Douyin account operations to collect unlawful cash, and the other was held in January for accepting “substantial” bribes from outside partners.
According to the article, ByteDance had since withdrawn their eligibility for annual bonuses and stock options.
Additionally, twenty-four workers were let go for utilizing their positions to help outside parties in exchange for perks that were not made clear. They have allegedly used unauthorized taxi services, submitted bogus expense reports, and claimed housing subsidies, among other fraudulent activities, in violation of the company’s policies.
Due to their loan of their card to an individual who was not employed by the company, one employee was fired. This outsider stole 490 yuan ($67.67) from ByteDance by using the card to eat at the workplace cafeteria 14 times.
ByteDance’s conflict of interest policies were broken by six more people, one of which was an employee who employed “multiple” relatives to work with a service provider that was closely related to their team.
Ten more employees were let go for “unauthorized acquisition, storage, and disclosure of internal company information” and for permitting other users to access networks that held private information.
This includes a worker who developed rival products in conjunction with the CEO of an unidentified competitor company.
Ten more employees were let go for “unauthorized acquisition, storage, and disclosure of internal company information” and for permitting other users to access networks that held private information.
This includes a worker who developed rival products in conjunction with the CEO of an unidentified competitor company.
ByteDance fired 136 employees due to fraud last year and sent over 23 more to the police due to possible legal infractions. The owner of TikTok declared that the company “strongly opposes all fraud and dishonesty” and that it had “zero tolerance” for bribes and corruption.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyMusic Label Working With Famous musicians Facing Cyber Threat
April 25, 2024
Hip-hop music industry heavyweight Empire Distribution, an independent record label, is now open to hackers.
The Cybernews investigation team found on February 4th, 2024, that Empire Distribution, an independent American record label, had misconfigured its systems and exposed its data to hackers.
The San Francisco-based label was established in 2010 and features a wide range of musical genres, including hip-hop, R&B, reggaeton, and reggae. Prominent musicians including Kendrick Lamar, Tyga, Iggy Azalea, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, and Snoop Dogg have collaborated with the label.
A publicly accessible environment file holding sensitive credentials is the source of the issue. Important configuration settings are kept in a text file called an environment file (.env). These settings frequently contain API keys, database access information, and other variables necessary for the application to run correctly. For this reason, granting access to the file must be secure.
Malicious actors might have compromised sensitive data including client information, financial records, or intellectual property by using the label’s compromised credentials to gain illegal access to Empire Distribution’s vital systems.
After contacting the company, Cybernews was able to get access to the credentials.
Leaked data included:
- JSON Web Token secret
- Mailgun API and domain
- SES key and secret
- Multiple database credentials
- Memcached server credentials
U.S. Rules On TikTok; China Says They’re Not Going Anywhere & Plans To Counter
April 25, 2024
The Senate voted 79 to 18 on Tuesday to enact a sell-or-ban bill, seemingly ending TikTok’s future in the US. President Biden has to approve the bill into law before it can be linked to the US foreign aid package. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is still able to challenge the ban in court. At today’s routine press conference, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry did not comment on the most recent political action pertaining to the short video app; instead, he stated that China’s counterpart in the Ministry of Commerce had previously expressed China’s “principled position” that America should cease “unreasonably suppressing other countries’ enterprises” within the context of a market economy and fair competition. In March, spokesman He Yadong added, “China will take all necessary measures.”
After US President Joe Biden signed the sell-or-ban measure targeting the app into law, giving TikTok’s Chinese parent business nine to twelve months to divest, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told the platform’s customers that “we aren’t going anywhere.”
In a video released on Wednesday, Chew stated, “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again.”
Details: On April 24, Biden signed the law that would force TikTok to be sold. Throughout this time, 170 million American users will still be able to view it. It is anticipated that TikTok will vigorously contest the action in US courts.
Hu Xijin, the well-known nationalist former editor-in-chief of the Chinese media outlet Global Times, stated on X that TikTok should “fight to the end” just hours after the Senate’s decision on the site on Wednesday. If ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming “loses this career and only gets some money,” in his words, it will be “meaningless.”
In an attempt to stop the bill from passing, TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance spent more than $7 million on digital advertising campaigns and in-house lobbyists this year, according to lobbying disclosure filings that CNBC quoted.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySuspicious Domains Targeting Election Officials
April 19, 2024
At least 11,974 suspicious domains targeting former President Donald Trump or President Joe Biden have been created since the beginning of last year, followed by hundreds of imposters on social media, cybersecurity firm BrandShield shared with Cybernews. And there’s more to come in a coordinated effort by bad actors to exploit interest in the elections. Between January 2023 and March 2024, at least 9,639 suspicious domains were registered to impersonate Trump. For Biden, such registrations stood at 2,335 – more than four times fewer.
There is an increase in fraudulent websites, social media-based scams, and other internet activities around the elections. These websites and social media accounts solicit voters for donations or offer merchandise sales. These pages are not affiliated with the real campaigns, they are scams,” Yoav Keren, CEO of BrandShield, told Cybernews.
Scammers created around 170 scam websites impersonating Amazon Prime Day last summer. With half a year remaining until the election, fraudsters have in advance already prepared an infrastructure dozens of times larger. “This is starting way ahead. Usually, a campaign would not need thousands of websites. You’ll need maybe a few, maybe dozens. Not thousands. It doesn’t make any sense,” Keren said. He calls the fraudulent infrastructure “massive” and assumes it will continue to grow, both in numbers and activity. “These are the grassroots of the scams. But then they turn to actual scams, actual active websites, actual social media engagements that are performed by the scammers,” Keren explains. “9,600 domains using the word Trump – potentially each one of them can turn into a website.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyDriverless Taxis Blocking Traffic & Causing Jams In The Bay Area
April 18, 2024
What a mess .
Since last August, Waymo—owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google—has been running a for-profit autonomous taxi service in San Francisco. According to the business, it provides tens of thousands of rides every week.
Waymo received approval at the beginning of March to begin offering its services more widely and to drive at up to 65 mph on freeways in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Peninsula. The San Francisco International Airport is one of the additional areas the service can operate in thanks to this new authorization.
Still, because there are more risks associated with autonomous cars on the freeway, the company is expanding its service gradually. Waymo is now using safety drivers to test the vehicles on roadways.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyFBI Issues Warning About EZ PassToll Scams
April 14, 2024
Americans are being warned by the FBI to be wary of texts claiming the recipient owes money for unpaid tolls. A common method used by SMS scammers, the link in these texts takes you to a website where you can enter payment details.
400 Workers On A Mandatory Remote Day Were Laid Off
March 27, 2024
An important notification regarding a “mandatory remote work day” for all Stellantis( the parent company of Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and other brands,) Salaries Non-Bargaining Unit employees in the US Engineering and Technology division was sent to Stellantis employees on March 21st.
“We will be holding important operational meetings on Friday, March 22nd, that require specific attention and participation,” is the justification given.
Car Dealership Guy posted a letter on X stating that workers were expected to work from home “unless otherwise instructed” by their manager. They needed to make sure they have the resources and tools necessary for working remotely.
“I appreciate your adaptability,” the letter said.
The next day, the company announced the layoffs of roughly 400 employees, effective March 31st. That corresponds to about 2% of employees were affected.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySam Altman Just Can’t Wait To Do A GPT5
March 18, 2024
In a Monday interview with Lex Fridman, CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman acknowledged that GPT-4, his company’s newest and finest AI model, actually kind of sucks. Altman, in fact, is hoping that GPT-5 can live up to the excitement.
When questioned about GPT-4 and its most remarkable features, Altman responded, “I think it kind of sucks.” “I believe that in order to ensure that the future is better, it is our responsibility to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck, looking back at them.”
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After complimenting GPT-4, Fridman was shocked to hear Altman’s remarks. In response, Altman expressed his increased excitement for the GPT-5, or whatever the following model’s name will be. The CEO of OpenAI stated that his business will launch a new ChatGPT version within the upcoming year, although he did not give a name for it. According to Altman, this upcoming model will advance in a manner akin to that of GPT-4.
Sam says they are feeling: AI burnout. they’ve heard countless stories about how AI will take their jobs, change the world, or potentially accelerate our impending doom. He describes a “glimmer of something amazing” in GPT-4, but notes that its best use case is often as a brainstorming partner. The OpenAI CEO notes that ChatGPT is rarely useful with complicated, multi-step problems. When it does work, it’s magic, but those cases are few and far between.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyOpenAI’s Sam Altman Returns
March 8, 2024
OpenAI announced on Friday that three new outside board members and CEO Sam Altman will rejoin the company’s board. With these actions, OpenAI is wrapping up an outside probe of what transpired leading to his short-lived dismissal earlier this year.
Why it matters: Since last November, the firm has been trying to get over its severe leadership crisis.
Three women have joined the board of Open AI: Fidji Simo, CEO and chair of Instacart; Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and Nicole Seligman, former EVP and general counsel at Sony Corporation.
After being unexpectedly ousted as CEO and then rehired over a few days, the board of the company declared it no longer trusted Altman, but almost the whole organization threatened to resign if he wasn’t reinstated.
In the event of Altman’s resignation, Microsoft, the main financial supporter of OpenAI, declared it would appoint him and other OpenAI members to head a new research center. Microsoft was only made aware of Altman’s termination at the last minute.
In addition to bringing Altman back, OpenAI also announced the appointment of Bret Taylor, a former CEO at Salesforce, to the board as an interim replacement. The other two members are Larry Summers and Adam D’Angelo, who co-founded Quora and was among the previous board members who had backed Altman’s removal.
According to a report put forth by the business, the WilmerHale legal review concluded that “the previous Board acted within its broad discretion to terminate Mr. Altman, but also found that his conduct did not mandate removal.”
“The prior Board believed at the time that its actions would mitigate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that its actions would destabilize the Company,” according to the report.
“The prior Board’s decision did not arise out of concerns regarding product safety or security, the pace of development, OpenAI’s finances, or its statements to investors, customers, or business partner,” according to the summary. “Instead, it was a consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust between the prior Board and Mr. Altman.” Some say the Board felt Altman was moving too fast.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyThe Bipartisan Bill & Tik Tok
March 6, 2024
Members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, both Republican and Democratic, said that their measure would “incentivize divestment of TikTok” by keeping the program out of American mobile app stores. It would also create authorities within the executive branch to go against social media businesses under the direction of a “foreign adversary.”
“This bill is an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it,” a representative for the app claimed in an interview with Newsweek, claiming the legislation would go against the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment.
For well over a year, lawmakers have viewed TikTok with mistrust; their worries are primarily related to ByteDance, the main business of the app, which is based in Beijing.
According to cybersecurity experts, these laws could obligate ByteDance and, in turn, TikTok to Communist Party officials in the event that they seek to examine any data stored abroad.
At a January Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) repeatedly questioned TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean, on suspected but ultimately unproven ties to China’s long-ruling party.
The chair and ranking member of the China committee, Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), stated that ByteDance would have “a window of time to divest,” and that TikTok would not be left out “if it completes a qualified divestment.”
They maintained the plan would not penalize specific social media users or control content.
“This is my message to TikTok: break up with the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to your American users,” stated Gallagher. “It is improper for America’s main enemy to be in charge of the country’s main media outlet. If TikTok doesn’t break up with CCP-controlled ByteDance, its days in the US are numbered.”
Krishnamoorthi continued: “So long as it is owned by ByteDance and thus required to collaborate with the CCP, TikTok poses critical threats to our national security.”
“To protect Americans from digital surveillance and to influence the actions of regimes that control the internet, our bipartisan legislation would force the divestment of apps controlled by foreign adversaries.”
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyNew England Journal Of Medicine ‘s AI-Focused Peer Review Journal
January 31, 2024
The articles new peer-reviewed journal from the New England Journal of Medicine is devoted to the new technology craze that will be written by actual doctors and healthcare professionals.
The journal’s idea is to demonstrate how doctors and researchers are utilizing AI in order to take advantage of new developments in healthcare and medicine.
The initial article, article, an editorial on the journal’s founding, emphasizes the significance of conducting research that “actively shapes the ethical integration of AI into a health care system that respects patient autonomy.” A report report concentrates on the exponential growth of AI-enabled medical devices over the previous ten years. Both reports address issues pertinent to seniors and senior living.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyFifthteen Thousand New York Kids Received Fake Homeopathic Pellets Instead Of Vaccines
January 18, 2024
The New York State Department of Health has issued a $300,000 penalty as part of a Stipulation and Order signed by a Nassau County midwife who created fake immunization records. Approximately 1,500 school-aged children from throughout the State are affected by the vaccine scheme, which has resulted in their immunization records being voided. All affected children must be fully up to date with all age-appropriate immunizations, or be in the process of receiving their missing vaccinations, before they can return to school.
Copyright Compliant AI Certificates Are Out But ChatGPT Will Not Get One
January 18, 2024
A new certification program has been introduced for AI that complies with copyright; However, ChatGPT and other text generators are not eligible.
The project, called Fairly Trained, is launched in the midst of a growing backlash against generative AI firms. Many of their technologies are trained on copyrighted content that is scraped from the internet, such as the chatbots from OpenAI and the art producers from Stability AI. The systems then produce countless innovations in response to cues, inspired by this data. The results are often obvious copies of the original material.
Copyright holders and authors are furious about this conduct. They contend that without their permission or payment, their work is stolen and remixed without their consent and compensation. Fairly Trained seeks to improve the status of human creators by accrediting businesses that obtain a license for their training data.
Which businesses value creator consent and which do not are indicated by the verification. After that, consumers are able to use GenAI with knowledge.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyOpen AI Offering Media Publishers 1 to 5 Million $ To Use Their Content
January 4, 2024
OpenAI has begun to provide publishers with content licensing agreements so that they can legally utilize their content to train their AI model according to a report from The Information (paywalled),. Using news articles and other public data to train their AI models, OpenAI and other companies creating generative AI products seem not to have given any thought to intellectual property rights.
According to two executives who have recently negotiated with the tech business, OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as $1 million to $5 million annually in exchange for licensing their news pieces for use in training its big language models. Even for small publishers, it’s considered chump change, so it might be challenging for OpenAI to close partnerships .
Additionally, Apple is purportedly providing content producers greater terms in negotiations for the licensing of their works. A person with knowledge of the situation told The Information, “Apple is offering more money but also wants the right to use content more widely than what OpenAI is seeking.” The same source stated, “Apple wants to be able to use content for future AI products in any way the company deems necessary.”
The New York Times filed a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement against Microsoft and OpenAI a week ago, claiming billions of dollars in damages in the process. It appears that, Google had similar issues in the past and had to pay publishers.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyWoman Enters MRI with Hidden Gun Gets Shot
December 6, 2023
The woman took a gun to her MRI, but it went off and left her with a gash in her buttock.
Before the MRI machine exploded, the 57-year-old unidentified lady entered the room with a concealed weapon, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported.
The firearm fired a cartridge, wounding the patient, after being drawn to the magnet. She is healing from her wound, though, as the gunfire did not penetrate too far.
Radio waves and a strong magnet are used by an MRI machine. They are thought to be extremely safe, but because of the strength of the magnet, anything carried in or close to the machine while it is turned on needs to be “MRI-safe” to prevent the magnet from heating up in the body.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyGoogle Bard Gets An Update
December 6, 2023
Gemini, Google’s “most capable AI model,” will now power Google Bard, and performance will increase significantly.
This announcement could surprise some people because there have been rumors circulating recently that Gemini’s launch was being postponed because of subpar performance in various languages. However, it now seems that Google felt pressured to accelerate the launch of its eagerly anticipated—and potentially deserving—ChatGPT competitor.
There are three “sizes” for Gemini; Pro and Ultra, as they have a direct effect on Bard. The manufacturer claims that the former is capable of handling a broad range of duties. It is the versatile player who will be available on other Google platforms. It is vital to bring up the company.
Another update to Bard is scheduled for early in the upcoming year, during which Google will integrate their Gemini Ultra model into the AI. The top-tier model, which can handle “very complex tasks,” is made to take in multimodal inputs, including text, video, and even code. According to Google, because Ultra has superior thinking abilities, it will “think more carefully before answering” challenging questions.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySam Altman Now With Microsoft; Open AI Employees Want follow Sam
November 20, 2023
Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman.
Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday after the board said it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” Negotiations to potentially bring Altman back to OpenAI, was halted -Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that both Altman and Brockman will be joining to lead Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team. Altman will be CEO of his new group.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Altman acknowledged he was joining Microsoft by reposting Nadella with the message “the mission continues.”
Usually, Microsoft reserves the title of CEO for CEOs of large or distinct divisions inside the software behemoth. Phil Spencer, the CEO of Xbox, was recently made CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Activision Blizzard, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mojang, and other companies that Microsoft has acquired have all had CEO positions used or continued. This may indicate more ambitious goals for Microsoft’s recently formed advanced AI research unit.
Additionally, Brockman disclosed that some important OpenAI personnel will be part of Microsoft’s new team. Patrick Pachocki,
Only a few hours have passed since Altman’s reinstatement as OpenAI CEO was not successful in negotiations with the company’s board. Emmett Shear, a co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, has been appointed as the company’s acting CEO. He will succeed Mira Murati, who was named OpenAI’s interim CEO after Altman was abruptly fired on Friday.
According to various people who spoke with The Verge, Altman had been negotiating to return as CEO of OpenAI, but the company’s four-person board refused to stand aside and allow him to do so. The New York Times reported that he had lately been pitching investors on a different firm he was involved in to manufacture bespoke AI tensor processing unit (TPU) chips that competed with Nvidia. Under the codename “Tigris,” the TPU project attracted interest from Microsoft as well as several well-known venture firms.
Only one week has passed since Microsoft said it has developed its own proprietary AI processor, which may be used to train massive language models and possibly wean itself off of Nvidia, thereby saving money. Altman and Brockman are leading Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team. For cloud workloads, Microsoft has also developed its own Arm-based CPU. The purpose of both unique silicon chips is to power Azure data centers.
Microsoft is still thought to be worth roughly has a “multibillion dollar investment” in OpenAI. Since Microsoft is OpenAI’s only cloud partner, all OpenAI workloads for products, API services, and research are powered by Microsoft’s cloud services.
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