🐦 Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter at His Original Price

Plus: Biden's AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech, TikTok Politics and the Era of Embodied Memes, and more…

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Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter at His Original Price. Elon Musk proposed a deal with Twitter on Monday evening that could bring to an end the acrimonious legal fight between the billionaire and the social media company. The arrangement would allow Mr. Musk to acquire Twitter at $54.20 per share, the… (Kate Conger / The New York Times)

Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18

Twitter employees found out about the Musk news today as 2023 strategy meetings were happening. Some wondered in Slack channels what Twitter would get if the deal didn't go through. One person answered: "Not [be] owned by a fucking moron?" nytimes.com/2022/10/04/tec…

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Biden's AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big Tech. Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial intelligence disproportionately impact marginalized communities, the office's director… (Khari Johnson / WIRED)

Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith

"The document released today resembles the flood of AI ethics principles released by companies... Their tenets are usually directionally right, but they lack teeth and are too vague to make a difference in people’s everyday lives." @kharijohnson

wired.comBiden’s AI Bill of Rights Is Toothless Against Big TechThe draft’s tenets include allowing citizens to opt out of algorithmic decisionmaking, which could reshape federal government—but not the private sector.

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TikTok Politics and the Era of Embodied Memes. Allow me, for a moment, to talk about NyQuil Chicken. In September the FDA issued a warning against viral TikTok social-media challenges involving medicines—specifically, a trend of boiling chicken in NyQuil as a sleep aid. The FDA cautioned… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

Today’s newsletter is an important conversation w/ @kmmunger about the supply side of TikTok and how the architecture changes what users do. We start with politics TikTok & it ends with his provocative theories on the not-so-slow death of literary culture

newsletters.theatlantic.comTikTok Politics and the Era of Embodied MemesWelcome to the vibes-based political culture

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Meta's AI Chief Publishes Paper on Creating 'Autonomous' Artificial Intelligence - VICE. Yann LeCun, VP and AI chief at Meta, has published a new paper laying out his vision for “autonomous” AIs that can learn and experience the world in a more human-like way than today's machine learning models. In the nearly 70 years… (Tatyana Woodall / Vice Media)

Yann LeCun @ylecun

Nice article at Vice that give the gist of my recent proposal for autnomous AI architectures. It derives from my collquium talk at UC Berkeley last week.

vice.comMeta’s AI Chief Publishes Paper on Creating ‘Autonomous’ Artificial IntelligenceYann LeCun, machine learning pioneer and head of AI at Meta, lays out a vision for AIs that learn about the world more like humans in a new study.

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Facebook Winds Down Its Newsletter Service. Facebook is shuttering its Bulletin subscription service, ending its attempt to compete with Substack and other newsletter services. Facebook, which is now part of the parent company Meta, has contacted writers within the program to tell them that… (Katie Robertson / The New York Times)

Katie Robertson @katie_robertson

SCOOP: Meta/Facebook is shuttering its Bulletin newsletter subscription service. It plans to wind it down by early next year. I'm told all writers will be paid out their full contracts. Statement from Meta:

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