Saturday, August 10, 2024

Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman  —  Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year



X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable:
X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works  —  Sorry, blue checks, it seems like you will no longer dominate users' mentions on X.  —  Thanks to a new feature, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.



An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube  —  Ms. Wojcicki, who helped start Google, was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley before stepping down from YouTube.



Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more  —  We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.



Friday, August 9, 2024

The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)

Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1  —  X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.



A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants  —  The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history



Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election (Reuters)

Reuters:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election  —  Maduro said he signed a resolution presented by regulator Conatel which “has decided to take social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out of circulation for 10 days.”



Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques



Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Q&A with Intel VP Robert Hallock on the upcoming Lunar Lake chips, Intel using TSMC nodes, and how the Arm vs. x86 power debates are based on a false premise (Vaidyanathan Subramaniam/Notebookcheck)

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam / Notebookcheck:
Q&A with Intel VP Robert Hallock on the upcoming Lunar Lake chips, Intel using TSMC nodes, and how the Arm vs. x86 power debates are based on a false premise  —  With Lunar Lake all set to officially launch ahead of IFA 2024 next month, NotebookCheck had an email chat with Intel's Robert Hallock …



Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision  —  Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge's decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.



The US awards South Korea's SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
The US awards South Korea's SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act  —  - Firm to get $450 million Chips Act grant, $500 million loan  — Indiana facility focused on advanced packaging, research



Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...