📣 OpenAI and Microsoft Extend Partnership

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OpenAI and Microsoft Extend Partnership. We're happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership. This multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft follows their previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow us to continue our independent… (OpenAI)

OpenAI @OpenAI

We are happy to announce the next phase of our partnership with Microsoft:

openai.comOpenAI and Microsoft Extend PartnershipWe’re happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership. This multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft follows their previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow us to continue our independent research and develop AI that is increasingly safe, use…

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I'm a Congressman Who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out. Imagine a world where autonomous weapons roam the streets, decisions about your life are made by AI systems that perpetuate societal biases and hackers use AI to launch devastating cyberattacks. This dystopian future may sound like science fiction… (Ted Lieu / The New York Times)

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix

Congressman @tedlieu, one of only three members of Congress with a computer science degree, is both "excited about the incredible ways" AI will advance society and "freaked out by AI, specifically AI that is left unchecked and unregulated."

nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a Congressman Who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out.Rep. Ted Lieu on why Congress needs to regulate A.I.

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Spotify Seen Cutting Staff as Soon as This Week to Cut Costs. Spotify Technology SA is planning layoffs as soon as this week in an effort to curtail costs, according to people familiar with the plans. The number of job cuts wasn't specified. Spotify laid off 38 people from its Gimlet Media and Parcast podcast… (Ashley Carman / Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman @ashleyrcarman

scoop with @Kamaron: spotify is planning to lay employees off as soon as this week, following earlier cuts at its podcast networks gimlet and parcast + layoffs at other tech and media companies

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Tesla's Problems Go Way Beyond Elon Musk. For now, Alex Lagetko is holding on to his Tesla stocks. The founder of hedge fund VSO Capital Management in New York, Lagetko says his stake in the company was worth $46 million in November 2021, when shares in the electric carmaker peaked at… (Jeff Link / WIRED)

WIRED @WIRED

“I think [Musk’s] core is rapidly moving away from him, and people are just starting to say, ‘I don’t like the smell of Tesla; I don’t want to be associated with that.’”

wired.trib.alTesla’s Problems Go Way Beyond Elon MuskThe EV giant is alienating its customers, bringing in less revenue, and falling behind legacy carmakers.

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The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down. We've been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and… (David Marchese / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

“We’re working now with disruptive new technologies that only emerged in the late ’90s,” Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer-science professor and productivity expert, said on multitasking in digital workplaces. “Of course we haven’t gotten it right yet.”

nyti.msThe Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You DownDigital theorist Cal Newport is arguing for a new way to work.

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