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This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new artificial intelligence company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after officially leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, along with Jan Leike, has been an integral part of OpenAI’s efforts to improve AI safety with the emergence of “super-intelligent” AI systems. However, both Sutskever and Laiki left the company after a major disagreement with leadership over how to handle AI safety.
In EV news, Fisker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, capping months of trouble with its Ocean SUV that included recalls and dozens of lemon law lawsuits. This is the second car company named after Henrik Fisker that ended in bankruptcy. His first efforts began in 2007 and he filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013.
Change Healthcare confirmed this week that a ransomware attack in February resulted in the theft of medical records affecting “a significant percentage of people in America.” The company processes patient insurance and billing for thousands of hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices and has access to vast amounts of health information on about a third of all Americans.
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DoJ vs Adobe: The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Adobe, alleging that the company hides termination fees and makes it difficult to cancel subscriptions. Read more
OpenAI acquires Rockset: OpenAI announced it has acquired Rockset, which builds tools to drive real-time research and data analytics, as the company continues to invest in enterprise sales and technology organizations. Read more
Buttons returned: Clicks has released a nostalgic BlackBerry-esque phone case that adds a keyboard with physical buttons to the bottom of your iPhone. We have to try one for ourselves. Read more
Where humans and artificial intelligence coexist: Butterflies is a social network in which humans and AI interact with each other through posts, comments, and direct messages in an effort to forge more creative relationships with AI. Read more
Apple kills Pay Later: After launching in late March 2023, Apple’s Pay Later feature is no longer there. Instead, Apple Pay users will be able to access loans through a partnership with the third-party Affirm app. Read more
Outlook users beware: A researcher has discovered a vulnerability that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft email accounts, making phishing attempts appear credible and more likely to fool their targets. Read more
Confusion takes on Google: The AI-powered search startup now displays results for real-world queries like the weather and time of a location, currency conversion, and answers to simple math queries directly through cards. Read more
Runway unveils the third generation: The company’s latest AI model for creating videos offers a “significant” improvement in speed — as well as more control over the structure, style, and motion of the videos created. Read more
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What should artificial intelligence look like?: From black holes to colorful blobs, representing AI in user interfaces can be a challenge. While approaches to positioning the brand as an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-doing intelligence vary, Devin Koldewey explores how companies have come together around the idea that the AI avatar should be non-threatening, abstract, yet relatively simple and non-anthropomorphic. . Read more
Why Fisker failed: As Fisker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, many are wondering what’s next for the ill-fated electric vehicle startup. Sean O’Kane argues that whatever happens to Fisker or its assets, it won’t change the fundamental problem: that it wasn’t prepared to deal with bringing a defective car to market. Read more
Pushing the cultural boundaries of ChatGPT: Current ChatGPT provides very generalized answers to specific questions that cater to specific communities, as its training seems European and Western in its bias. With most AI models not designed with people of color in mind, Dominic Madori Davis and Taj Ken Okafor report on Black-owned chatbots and versions of ChatGPT that specifically cater to Black and brown communities — and help founders capitalize on OpenAI’s cultural slippage . Read more