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‘Little Tech’ Brings A Big Flex To Sacramento

One of Silicon Valley’s heaviest hitters is wading into the fight over California’s AI regulations, Politico reported. Y Combinator — the venture capitalist firm that brought us Airbnb, Dropbox, and DoorDash — today issued its opening salvo against a bill…

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IIya Sutskever, OpenAI’s Former Chief Scientist, Launches New AI Company

IIya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has launched a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formerly leaving OpenAI, TechCrunch reported. Sutskever, who was OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist, founded SSI with former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross…

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Meta Pauses AI Models Launch In Europe Due To Irish Request

Meta Platforms will not launch its Meta AI models in Europe for now after the Irish privacy regulator told it to delay its plan to harness data from Facebook and Instagram users, the U.S. social media company said on Friday,…

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Apple Intelligence Is The Company’s New Generative AI Offering

On Monday, at WWDC 2024, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI. As earlier rumors suggested, the new feature is called Apple Intelligence (AI, get it?). The company promised the feature will be built with safety…

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OpenAI Has A New Safety Team Led By Sam Altman

OpenAI is forming a new safety team, and it’s led by CEO Sam Altman, along with board member Adam D’Angelo and Nicole Seligman. The committee will make recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations” —…

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OpenAI, WSJ News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued At $250 Million

Wall Street Journal owner News Corp struck a major content-licensing pact with generative artificial-intelligence company OpenAI, aiming to cash in on a technology that promises to have a profound impact on the news-publishing industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. The…

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