Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is working on an Instagram feature called Peek that lets users post unedited, authentic pictures that can only be viewed once — Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat.
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don’t sign it lose all vested equity (Kelsey Piper/Vox)
Kelsey Piper / Vox:
OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don’t sign it lose all vested equity — Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding? — On Monday, OpenAI announced exciting new product news: ChatGPT can now talk like a human.
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries — Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year.
Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU — Rival coders must have EU staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing — Apple’s grudging accommodation of European law …
Source: the Superalignment team was promised 20% of OpenAI’s compute resources but requests for a fraction of that were often denied (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Source: the Superalignment team was promised 20% of OpenAI’s compute resources but requests for a fraction of that were often denied — OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources …
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X — Apple is developing a significantly thinner version of the iPhone that could be released as early as 2025, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI’s safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years (Jan Leike/@janleike)
Jan Leike / @janleike:
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI’s safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years — Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
OpenAI’s entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI’s entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups — The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default — Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country’s 5G core network by 2026 for national security reasons (Michael Nienaber/Bloomberg)
Michael Nienaber / Bloomberg:
Sources: Germany is nearing a decision to strip Huawei and ZTE components from the country’s 5G core network by 2026 for national security reasons — – Plan bans Chinese critical components in core network by 2026 — Interior, foreign and economy ministries back the proposal