A new California law passed earlier this week creates a framework for “Independent Verification Organizations” that can test frontier AI models before they are released, thereby limiting any risks those models pose. The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too ...
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Astra kicks off AI monitoring debateAstra kicks off AI monitoring debate
OpenAI’s new AI model, Astra, is delighting its fans with its ability to complete tasks with very little human intervention. But AI safety experts want to know how it’s accomplishing these feats, a more urgent concern in the wake of OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, which exposed humans’ inability to fully ...
Breaking up Google could have handed more power to other monopoliesBreaking up Google could have handed more power to other monopolies
Reed’s view Antitrust advocates on the left and the right are upset that, yet again, a big tech giant has avoided being broken up after an antitrust lawsuit. This time, it’s Google — again — that gets to stay together despite being found guilty of flouting antitrust law with its ...
Death on the road to Rafah: the night the IDF targeted World Central Kitchen aid workersDeath on the road to Rafah: the night the IDF targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers
The Israeli army had helped plan the delivery of food aid on 1 April 2024, but things went wrong from the beginning and ended in seven deaths • Exclusive: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike On the evening of 1 April 2024, a team of aid ...
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic • Death on the road to Rafah: the night the IDF targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers Seven aid workers killed in an airstrike in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli ...
Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocksMistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocks
The mistrial now puts the murder case – and Clancy’s future – in limbo as to whether she will be held criminally liable in the deaths of her three kids. ...
US adds 162,000 jobs in August, beating expectationsUS adds 162,000 jobs in August, beating expectations
The US labor market added 162,000 jobs in August, blowing past economists’ expectations, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. The gains came largely from a rebound in leisure and hospitality and local government, after declines in both over the summer. The stronger-than-expected numbers have fed funds futures traders ...
Filmmakers tout AI’s use in Hollywood at the other film festival in VeniceFilmmakers tout AI’s use in Hollywood at the other film festival in Venice
The News Hollywood’s dirty little secret is that filmmakers do like AI, and they use it to save money. A finalist in this year’s Reply AI Film Festival competition, Mike Bennion told Semafor he was recently asked to use AI for a Hollywood movie currently in production that was short ...
How to share West Africa’s historyHow to share West Africa’s history
Yinka’s view West African governments are competing for something that, by definition, belongs to the region as a whole: the descendants of Africans taken during the transatlantic slave trade. Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, and Sierra Leone have all created pathways to citizenship, hoping to turn ancestral ties into tourism, investment — ...
Gloria Steinem in her own wordsGloria Steinem in her own words
by Gloria Steinem. The trailblazing American feminist, Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday, lived a life defined by movement in every sense of the word. In her 2015 memoir, Steinem recounts her dynamic, nomadic career as a writer and activist, and pays vivid homage to the people, places, and conversations that ...