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• 'Belligerent' United Airlines passenger hit with $20K fine, TSA says — United Airlines passenger had been in custody since the March 1 incident
• "Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year" — Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year, we're building AGI and it's going to be worth it
• Sam on GPT4 — GPT4 is "the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use again... by a lot"
• The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk] - Sam Altman (OpenAI) - YouTube — Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.
• Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
• @shiraovide • For a sense of how bonkers the money is — Google and Microsoft combined spent $26 billion IN THREE MONTHS on computer chips, servers, data centers and other big ticket costs.
• "BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are... — BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are those with shrinking populations.. They'll rapidly develop robotics/AI.. transform productivity.. elevate living standards.. substitute humans for machines"
• Apple Vision Pro a big hit in enterprise — There isn't a line item in Apple's earnings for Apple Vision Pro, but CEO Tim Cook shared a tidbit of interest during the Q2 earnings call. He said Apple Vision Pro has been purchased by half of Fortune 100 companies.

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• Mark Gurman on X — BREAKING NEWS: Apple cancels the Apple Car project after a decade-long, multi-billion effort to rival Tesla. Some employees shifting to Generative AI teams.
• Florida Man Games poke fun at state’s reputation — Promoted as “the most insane athletic showdown on Earth,” the Florida Man Games poke fun at the state’s reputation for bizarre stories that involve brawling, drinking, gunfire, reptile wrangling and other antics carrying a risk of time in jail or intensive care.
• Alphabet execs upset after Trump election, leaked video shows  — The release of the video comes as Google and other major tech companies have been accused of having a liberal bias.
• Google parent loses $70B in market value after 'woke' AI chatbot disaster — Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its heavily promoted AI tool.
• Nate Silver on X — They need to shut Gemini down. It is several months away from being ready for prime time. It is astounding that Google released it in this state.
• While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish — In fact, I think there is a precedent for Gemini; like many comparison points for modern-day Google, it comes from Microsoft.
• Leftism on X — The head of Google's Gemini AI everyone.
• samir arora: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, will be fired or he will resign, says this market veteran — Responding to inquiries on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Arora expressed his belief that Pichai's tenure might come to an end soon, asserting, "My guess is he will be fired or resign - as he should. After being in the lead on AI he has completely failed on this and let others take over."
• Dare Obasanjo🐀 on X — Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
• AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation — Over the past two years AMD has quietly been funding an effort though to bring binary compatibility so that many NVIDIA CUDA applications could run atop the AMD ROCm stack at the library level -- a drop-in replacement without the need to adapt source code.
• Sid Sijbrandij on X — If forced back into the office and needing a break: play these meetings fullscreen without sound and listen to a podcast on your over ear headphones. Nobody will interrupt your break :)
• Will Oremus on X — Spotify's antitrust suit against Apple in the EU ends with $2B fine for Apple.
• Peter Steinberger on X — Apple playing hurt baby. The App Store helped Spotify so much!! We provide all the API!!1!

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• AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access — The WorkSpaces Thin Client is based on AWS parent Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire TV Cube
• OpenAI saga: What is Q-Star? — The ‘humanity-threatening’ AI that could be a reason behind Sam Altman’s removal. "Four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I've gotten to be in the room, when we sort of push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward, and getting to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime,
• OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say — Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
• The ‘AI doomers’ have lost this battle — That’s the reason for the strange organisational structure — to control the risk. Altman has been building this thing as fast as possible, while also saying very loudly and often that this thing is extremely dangerous and governments should get involved to control any attempts to build it. Well, which is it?
• The Unexpected Winner in the Craziest Week in AI — Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella made a huge bet on the world’s hottest AI company. After it nearly blew up on him, he now emerges with closer ties to its leader, Sam Altman.
• US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' — In a 20-page document unveiled Sunday, the 18 countries agreed that companies designing and using AI need to develop and deploy it in a way that keeps customers and the wider public safe from misuse.