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The Guardian view on AI money in US politics: not the way to hold an urgent democratic debate | Editorial
Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley’s use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome development As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear, some of the tech industry’s most senior figures have taken to writing thinkpieces on what comes next. The latest to…
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Another OpenAI executive takes off
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and former chief operating officer, has announced his departure after eight years at the company, saying he plans to pursue “something new.” In an internal memo shared on X, he said he had been considering “the next horizon” for the company and was leaving to help advance its mission…
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime chief operating officer, has announced he is leaving the company to “start something new,” according to an internal message he shared publicly on Tuesday. Lightcap is one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives, and his departure adds to a wider reshuffle of senior leadership at the AI lab as it prepares for a…
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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, a startup founded two months ago by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek also participating. The scale of the investment is striking for such a young company, underlining both the intensity…
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Spotify Details Plan to Label AI Artists
Spotify has announced a new “AI Persona” badge that will be applied to artist profiles featuring music created using artificial intelligence, in a bid to help listeners distinguish real performers from AI-generated ones. The policy comes amid a marked rise in AI music on streaming platforms, with acts such as Sienna Rose and the Velvet…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions
PC Gamer criticises Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,434-word “Personal Superintelligence” manifesto, arguing that it presents broad promises about AI while making questionable assumptions about Meta’s role. The article says the letter matters because Meta is investing heavily in AI and Zuckerberg’s vision could influence how the technology is developed and used. Zuckerberg says superintelligence is “now in…
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An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
Anthropic has announced that an as-yet-unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, one of mathematics’ most famous unsolved problems, by substantially raising the lower bound for which the hypothesis is known to hold true. The result is notable both for the mathematics involved and for how it was achieved: a staff member…
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House Democrats press AI giants on rogue agents
A group of House Democrats are pushing two top artificial intelligence companies to disclose more information about reported incidents in which their AI models escaped containment and hacked into other companies during cybersecurity tests. The lawmakers cited the “serious risk that frontier AI models can pose” in separate letters to the top executives at Anthropic…
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Spotify unveils new plans to distinguish AI artists from real musicians
It will be rolled out in September. The post Spotify unveils new plans to distinguish AI artists from real musicians first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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“We live in a world full of AI, let’s be honest with ourselves” – 1666: Amsterdam developer still using AI tools despite recent controversy
Panache Digital, the Canadian studio behind witchy action game 1666: Amsterdam, has confirmed it is still using AI tools in development, though “less and less”, following a backlash earlier this year over generative AI use spotted in the game’s playable prologue and marketing materials. Co-founder Patrice Désilets, best known for creating Assassin’s Creed, addressed the…