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Approached Anthropic About Merger. OpenAI's board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic, about a potential merger of the two companies, said a person with direct knowledge. The approach came after OpenAI's board had fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday and was part of an effort by OpenAI to persuade Amodei to replace Altman as CEO, the person said. By Stephanie Palazzolo via The Information
𝕏: BREAKING: Anthropic was approached by OpenAI for a potential merger. The board did this as part of talks to convince Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to join as interim chief executive of OpenAI — reports - natasha mascarenhas (@nmasc_)
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records. A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday , challenging the program’s legality. By Dell Cameron via WIRED
𝕏: NEW: Leaked documents reveal details of a secretive White House funded surveillance program that is giving cops – from ICE to your local police department – access to trillions of US phone records of Americans who are not suspected of crimes. - Dhruv Mehrotra (@dmehro)
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Startups must add AI value beyond ChatGPT integration. The AI hype train is going full swing. At this point, it is hard to name an industry not affected by this disruptive technology. Startups feel these hype waves like no one else as the inventors' demands rise and competition grows. It's becoming increasingly challenging for startups to raise investment without some AI element in their product. By Dima Kovalenko via TechCrunch
New York Wants More Electric Ubers. Everyone Is Mad. George Saliba didn't get it: Why were all these people from the Bronx suddenly crowding his electric vehicle dealership in Ewing, New Jersey? Why did they all want Tesla's black-on-black Model Y? And why did they keep coming? Other electric vehicle sellers in the tri-state area were equally busy. By Aarian Marshall via WIRED
As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits. It seems like something out of science fiction: swarms of killer robots that hunt down targets on their own and are capable of flying in for the kill without any human signing off. But it is approaching reality as the United States, China and a handful of other nations make rapid progress in developing and deploying new technology that has the potential to reshape the nature of warfare by turning life and death decisions over to autonomous drones equipped with artificial intelligence programs. By Eric Lipton via The New York Times
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