Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI disrupted five influence operations in the past three months that accessed its products to covertly manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes — Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO — In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims …
Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta account for 30% of the S&P 500 Index, up from ~26% at the start of the year, after a surge driven by Nvidia (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta account for 30% of the S&P 500 Index, up from ~26% at the start of the year, after a surge driven by Nvidia — – The six companies had a weighting of 26% at the start of 2024 — Surge has been driven by Nvidia, which is up 130% this year
Sources: the US is probing whether chip-equipment maker Ronda Korea has been selling parts using tech made by US’ Lam Research to sanctioned Chinese companies (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: the US is probing whether chip-equipment maker Ronda Korea has been selling parts using tech made by US’ Lam Research to sanctioned Chinese companies — The U.S. Commerce Department is probing whether a South Korean maker of parts for machines that produce semiconductors has been selling …
Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the US SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before TerraUSD’s collapse (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the US SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before TerraUSD’s collapse — Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
Anthropic releases “tool use” for Claude, letting users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic’s Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google’s Vertex AI (Kylie Robison/The Verge)
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Anthropic releases “tool use” for Claude, letting users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic’s Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google’s Vertex AI — Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant …
Google rolls out new features to Android, including editing sent messages in Google Messages, improvements to instant hotspot, a Google Home widget, and more (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google rolls out new features to Android, including editing sent messages in Google Messages, improvements to instant hotspot, a Google Home widget, and more — Google is releasing seven new updates and features to make Android devices and services more useful.
Auction house Christie’s alerts the FBI and UK police about the hack that hobbled its website earlier this month, and begins telling clients of compromised data (Zachary Small/New York Times)
Zachary Small / New York Times:
Auction house Christie’s alerts the FBI and UK police about the hack that hobbled its website earlier this month, and begins telling clients of compromised data — Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web.
Elon Musk agrees to testify in the SEC’s probe of his 2022 Twitter acquisition, after dropping his plan to appeal a court order that he comply with a subpoena (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk agrees to testify in the SEC’s probe of his 2022 Twitter acquisition, after dropping his plan to appeal a court order that he comply with a subpoena — – Billionaire will sit for five-hour deposition with regulator — Agency probing Musk’s disclosure of initial Twitter stake
A report details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; ISP seems to be Windstream (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
A report details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; ISP seems to be Windstream — An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers. — One day last October …
