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- A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...) [2d]
- California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) [2d]
- Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (Microsoft AI) [2d]
- New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever (KRQE) [2d]
- The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing its US assets and accusing it of enabling Iran and its proxy groups to evade western sanctions (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times) [2d]
- Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters) [2d]
- OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service (Martin Austermuhle/The Washington Sun) [2d]
- Anthropic urges Australia to consider "conditional approval" for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (Josh Butler/The Guardian) [2d]
- SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round (The Information) [2d]
- A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters) [2d]
- Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [2d]
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- This tiny PC has two Intel Arc B70 GPUs with 64GB of RAM and water cooling — Gunnir B70 workstation runs on Intel's Ultra 200HX with no AMD version in sight [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #1209) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #943) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #1712) [2d]
- Focal Mu-so Hekla review: a potent, super-immersive wireless speaker in a sleek soundbar's clothing [2d]
- A wireless eGPU is coming soon! WiCi will sell a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB GDDR7 that runs through Wi-Fi 7, but you will actually be paying for an entire PC — a local server by any other name [2d]
- Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts [2d]
- Quote of the day by IBM's Darío Gil: "Not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines" [2d]
- AMD's 256-core monster EPYC CPU is its most expensive processor ever launched — 600W 'Venice' 9996 has 1 GB cache, supports PCIe 6.0 and MRDIMM, both cutting-edge enterprise-only tech that probably won't come to consumers until after 2030 [2d]
- Microsoft deletes nonprofit customers' M365 data — and says it can't get it back [2d]
- Oura partners with Xella Health to combine your smart ring data with AI-powered biomarker testing [2d]
- Asus, Lenovo, and HP are selling cheap AMD Athlon Silver 10 laptops — for your own sake, do not spend your money on inferior e-waste [2d]
- Casio is reportedly working on a second version of its digital watch ring [2d]
- California Governor Gavin Newsom signs 'No Robo Bosses Act' — so an AI can no longer fire you on its own [2d]
- The best pumpkin spice coffee capsules and packs, so you can indulge your fall habit at home [2d]
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