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In policy paper, OpenAI diverges from White House on AI safety
OpenAI Group PBC’s newly released proposal for how advanced artificial intelligence should be regulated differs slightly from the Trump administration’s executive order, also released this week. Released Tuesday, OpenAI’s paper, “Democratic Governance of Frontier AI: A blueprint for a federal framework,” asks that civilian agencies be responsible for overseeing the safety of frontier AI, while ...
Florida AG sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over claims the technology is dangerous and exploits its users
Florida today became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI Group PBC and its chief executive, alleging that its product ChatGPT can be harmful to its users and that the company has failed to make clear these dangers to the public. “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” ...
CNN sues Perplexity alleging ‘massive’ copyright infringement
CNN today opened a lawsuit against the AI firm Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company has violated copyright protections by using artificial intelligence to rewrite its reporting, thereby undermining the foundation of its economic model. The network now joins a long line of publishers that have sued AI firms for copyright infringement. It’s also not ...
Amazon will acquire Apple’s 20% stake in satellite firm Globalstar
Following last month’s announcement that Amazon.com Inc. inked a deal to pay $11.6 billion for the internet satellite company Globalstar Inc., it was revealed today that it will now take over Apple Inc.’s 20% stake in the company. Per the Federal Communications Commission filing, Amazon will create a subsidiary, Grapefruit Acquisition Sub II, LLC, that ...
Microsoft’s LinkedIn is about to lay off 5% of its staff
Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn is about to lay off about 5% of its staff, according to report in Reuters today. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters that the networking giant will reorganize its teams and focus on areas where the core business is growing. Presently, LinkedIn employs close ...
Sam Altman testifies in landmark OpenAI trial, says Musk wanted control of company
OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its leaders, alleging that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman betrayed the founding mission to serve humanity by turning a nonprofit into ...
Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to allow government safety checks of their AI models prior to release
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and xAI Corp. have agreed to share unreleased versions of their artificial intelligence models with the U.S. Department of Commerce to ensure the technologies do not pose a threat. Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, CAISI, part of the Commerce Department, announced it will take charge of testing the ...
OpenAI President Greg Brockman grilled about his $30B personal stake and ‘duty to humanity’
OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and President Greg Brockman today disclosed in an ongoing landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth close to $30 billion, a windfall Elon Musk has invoked in his argument as proof the company sacrificed its original nonprofit mission. Musk’s civil lawsuit alleges that OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman ...
Senate votes to ban its members and staff from using prediction platforms
Following concern over insider trading, the U.S. Senate today voted unanimously to ban its members and staff from using prediction markets that can be used to make anonymous bets on future events, including geopolitical events involving the U.S. This comes a week after three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia were fined and suspended ...
EU investigators say Meta isn’t doing enough to keep children off its platforms
European Union regulators today said that Platforms Inc. has violated the Digital Services Act by failing to keep kids under 13 years old from accessing its platforms. The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said in a preliminary investigation that Meta had failed to introduce a system to verify the age of ...