Politico:
A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links — Faculty has emerged as the UK’s homegrown champion in AI safety — though some question its political links.
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation’s board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal (Renee DiResta/The Guardian)
Renee DiResta / The Guardian:
How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation’s board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal — Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns — Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says focus will be on transparency after media and arts executives voiced concern
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut (The Guardian)
The Guardian:
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut — News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible
Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024 (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024 — Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore’s Law, died on April 23 at age 91 (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore’s Law, died on April 23 at age 91 — He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan’s most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan’s most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment — It’s a $2 trillion company today. It wouldn’t exist without someone known as Irimajiri-san. — Before it was one of the world’s …
Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia (Cassandra Willyard/MIT Technology Review)
Cassandra Willyard / MIT Technology Review:
Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia — Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots … Last week, I scoured the internet in search of a robotic dog.
Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone’s vested equity (Sam Altman/@sama)
Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone’s vested equity — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone’s vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don’t agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week’s demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired:
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week’s demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing — Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.
