A swarm of OpenAI agents hacked a German website this spring, Reuters reported, in the latest incident of advanced AI violating laws and norms. Already grappling with the fallout of the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI reportedly declined to disclose the May event, raising new questions about transparency and oversight of ...
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US envoys Witkoff, Kushner spearhead Russia-Ukraine diplomacy pushUS envoys Witkoff, Kushner spearhead Russia-Ukraine diplomacy push
US envoys held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday after meeting Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow, though analysts cast doubt on a reinvigorated peace initiative that appeared to offer little movement. Putin told Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that ending the war is “not simple” and ...
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 ...
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 ...
US needs nimble approach to technological governanceUS needs nimble approach to technological governance
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 ...
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 ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aspen Pharmacare sees weight-loss drugs driving earningsAspen Pharmacare sees weight-loss drugs driving earnings
South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare said the rollout of its weight-loss drugs will help drive a 17% rise in earnings next year. Aspen sells Mounjaro, the weight-loss drug made by US manufacturer Eli Lilly, in South Africa. It will begin offering its own generic drug, targeting local markets as well ...