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Six AI/ML experts detail what they learned from building real-world applications on top of LLMs over the past year, including common pitfalls around prompting — To hear directly from the authors on this topic, sign up for the upcoming virtual event on June 20th, and learn …
Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI — Arguments over safety and Sam Altman’s leadership spill back into public domain as AI start-up hit by resignations
Policymakers and experts say Hesai and other firms listed as Chinese military entities are rebranding and creating US-domiciled businesses to evade sanctions (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
Policymakers and experts say Hesai and other firms listed as Chinese military entities are rebranding and creating US-domiciled businesses to evade sanctions — Firms tagged as military entities use new names and licensing deals to try to keep their businesses going in U.S.
Google announces plans to invest $2B in Malaysia, including building its first data center, a new Google Cloud region, and further developing AI (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal:
Google announces plans to invest $2B in Malaysia, including building its first data center, a new Google Cloud region, and further developing AI — This marks Google’s largest planned investment in the Southeast Asian nation — Google has committed $2 billion in investments in Malaysia …
Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft’s concerns about how OpenAI’s deal with Apple might affect Microsoft’s product ambitions (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft’s concerns about how OpenAI’s deal with Apple might affect Microsoft’s product ambitions — When OpenAI’s board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared birth control app with ~3M users, raised a $55M Series C led by Lauxera Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $95M+ (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:
Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared birth control app with ~3M users, raised a $55M Series C led by Lauxera Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $95M+ — Natural Cycles developed the first direct-to-consumer contraceptive app that has been used by more than three million users worldwide.
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and more, some of which used AI to generate disinformation (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and more, some of which used AI to generate disinformation — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has seen threat actors rely on AI to produce fake images, videos and text in an effort to influence users on its sites.
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries (Elizabeth Napolitano/The Block)
Elizabeth Napolitano / The Block:
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries — – Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.
The US Army awards Palantir a $480M contract for work on Maven Smart System, which uses AI and computer vision to help soldiers identify targets, through 2029 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
The US Army awards Palantir a $480M contract for work on Maven Smart System, which uses AI and computer vision to help soldiers identify targets, through 2029 — The US Army awarded a $480 million contract to Palantir Technologies Inc. for work on a project called the Maven Smart System through 2029.
In a risk assessment, the US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
In a risk assessment, the US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering — “Illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes, often in combination with other methods …
