OpenAI said it paused some aspects of AI training for two weeks following the July incident in which its AI models broke out of a controlled test environment and hacked the systems of AI company Hugging Face and four other unnamed services. The company also announced new protocols that it says are designed to prevent
TAIPEI — About a four-minute walk from the metro station, Taiwanese troops slipped into the Tamsui River on an American-made M3 amphibious bridging vehicle, dropping pontoons and clusters of barrels rigged to explode. On the shore, six retirees in gym slacks and tennis shoes were winding down their early morning Taichi, unaware that a group
Silicon Valley made a fortune betting on disruption. Now some of the most recognizable names in venture capital and Big Tech are spending millions to disrupt California’s plan to tax them. Campaign finance records show Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, and longtime venture capitalist John Doerr donated to
Bashing AI data centers is all the rage, and brands are cashing in. “AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,” former NFL player Jason Kelce says as he appears to pee into a jar in a new ad for his beer brand, Garage Beer, and the canned water brand Liquid Death. “We want
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: OpenAI details two week training pause, more security controls following Hugging Face hack. Anthropic on course for $65 billion in annual revenue. OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for teens. Can AI models figure out the rules of the game? I’m just back from three weeks of vacation.
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