🔥 Twitter's Past Glory, Macron's AI Caution, Mistral Challenges OpenAI
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Before Elon, Twitter was an idealist's workplace. In the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role in the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, which was nearly as effective for recruiting. While it would never reach the scale of its competitors, the platform dominated in terms of cultural and political relevance. By Zoë Schiffer via The Verge
𝕏: this was really well done - rat king (@MikeIsaac)
EU's new AI Act risks hampering innovation, warns Emmanuel Macron. Emmanuel Macron has warned that landmark EU legislation designed to tackle the development of artificial intelligence risks hampering European tech companies compared to rivals in the US, UK and China, setting the stage for a new battle over regulation of the emerging technology. By Leila Abboud via Financial Times
𝕏: EU AI Act: it's not over yet. Regulating foundation models is a bad idea that was added late in the text and rightfully fought against by Macron's government. - Yann LeCun (@ylecun)
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Everybody's talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI. On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a 'mixture of experts' (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy and Jim Fan. By Benj Edwards via Ars Technica
𝕏: Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI - Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel)
US Regulators Want Cars to Include Drunk-Driver Detection Technology. The US government took the first step Tuesday toward requiring new cars to have technology that checks whether the driver is drunk. At an event in Washington, DC, officials with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the nation's top road safety regulator, said the technology could help prevent thousands of annual road deaths involving alcohol. By Aarian Marshall via WIRED
New York Times Hires First Newsroom Leader Focused on Artificial Intelligence. The New York Times has hired an editorial director of artificial-intelligence initiatives, signaling a significant commitment to the new technology as major news organizations explore its potential capabilities and risks. The Times has tapped Quartz co-founder Zach Seward to work with newsroom leadership in establishing principles for “how we do and do not use generative A.I.” By Alexandra Bruell via Wall Street Journal
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