Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM (Effie Webb/Business Insider)

Effie Webb / Business Insider:
Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM  —  - BI obtained training docs showing how freelancers stress-test AI with “harmful” prompts.  — Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers …

Sources: Meta aims to release Llama 4 later this month after pushing back its release date at least twice due to underperformance in reasoning and math tasks (Kalley Huang/The Information)

Kalley Huang / The Information:
Sources: Meta aims to release Llama 4 later this month after pushing back its release date at least twice due to underperformance in reasoning and math tasks  —  Last spring, Meta Platforms was on a tear.  It had just released Llama 3, a new generation of its large language model …

Chainalysis estimates North Korean hackers stole over $6B in crypto over the past decade and accounted for ~60% of industry-wide theft losses in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Chainalysis estimates North Korean hackers stole over $6B in crypto over the past decade and accounted for ~60% of industry-wide theft losses in 2024  —  More than $6 billion from heists highlights the sophistication of cyber operations funneling cash to Kim Jong Un's nuclear program

Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access (Foreign Affairs)

Foreign Affairs:
Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access  —  How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost  —  Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.

Survey: 35% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact in the US over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI will have a positive impact (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center:
Survey: 35% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact in the US over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI will have a positive impact  —  The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI.  But they share similar views in wanting more personal control …

Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as "nutritional" (Jessica Testa/New York Times)

Jessica Testa / New York Times:
Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional”  —  After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”