🚨 GPT-4 Bioweapon Risk Minimal, Microsoft 365 Hits Apple Vision, Messenger Ends
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OpenAI Says GPT-4 Poses Little Risk of Helping Create Bioweapons. Artificial intelligence startup carried out tests as part of efforts to understand and prevent any “catastrophic” risks from its technology. OpenAI’s most powerful artificial intelligence software, GPT-4, poses “at most” a slight risk of helping people create biological threats, according to early tests the company carried out to better understand and prevent potential “catastrophic” harms from its technology. By Rachel Metz via Bloomberg
𝕏: Evaluations for LLM-assisted biological threat creation. Current models not very capable at this task, but we want to be ahead of the curve for assessing this and other potential future risk areas - Greg Brockman (@gdb)
Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple's Vision Pro at launch. Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple's Vision Pro headset later this week. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Microsoft Teams will all be available in the App Store for Apple Vision Pro on February 2nd — the same day Apple’s new headset is available in stores. By Tom Warren via The Verge
𝕏: Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and many other Office apps are launching on Apple's Vision Pro headset this week. There's even an AI-powered Copilot experience too. - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
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The Messenger is shutting down. The Messenger, a digital news startup that launched with $50 million in funding last May, plans to shut down operations, a source familiar with the situation told Axios Wednesday. Why it matters: It’s one of the biggest media failures of the internet era. Worse, the demise was foreseeable — and foreseen. By Sara Fischer via Axios
𝕏: @TheMessenger is shutting down after running out of cash — It's a spectacular flameout for a high-profile media startup that blew through $50 million in less than a year — CEO was scrambling to raise cash to keep it afloat but missed deadline - Sara Fischer (@sarafischer)
Google's first Africa cloud region now operational. Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational, coming a year after the tech giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa. Cloud regions allow users to deploy cloud resources from specific geographic locations or closer to customers, and gives them access to several services including cloud storage, compute engine and key management systems. By Annie Njanja via TechCrunch
𝕏: Google’s first Africa cloud region now operational, nice! I just checked, and it's active for users of services like Cloud Run, GKE, Spanner, BigQuery, and much more. - Richard Seroter (@rseroter)
Generative A.I.'s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says. A new generation of artificial intelligence is poised to turn old assumptions about technology on their head. For years, people working in warehouses or fast food restaurants worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research suggests that generative A.I. — the kind used in chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT — will have its biggest impact on white-collar workers with high-paying jobs in industries like banking and tech. By Steve Lohr via The New York Times
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