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• Saagar Enjeti on X — Microsoft Data says that US office workers are spending 300% more time in meetings today compared to 2020
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• Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza — Google’s AI Overviews feature is delivering incorrect answers faster than ever.
• Sam Altman’s ‘Inconsistent Candor’ Is Showing — As Scarlett Johansson threatens legal action over ChatGPT's voice, the OpenAI CEO's trustworthiness is once again being called into question.
• OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman — With three OpenAI board members on the new safety team, will it really be so safe?
• DHS establishes Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board — The Board’s first meeting is planned for early May when they will begin the task of focusing on how to develop and deploy AI technology within the United States’ critical infrastructure safely and securely.
• Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board to Advance AI’s Responsible Development and Deployment — President Biden directed Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas to establish the Board, which includes 22 representatives from a range of sectors, including software and hardware companies, critical infrastructure operators, public officials, the civil rights community, and academia. The
• House holds hearing on the use of AI in U.S. security and defense — 5/22/2024 - YouTube — The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing to examine how artificial intelligence can be used in homeland security and the implications for AI use. Witnesses testifying at the hearing include: Troy Demmer, co-founder and chief product officer at Gecko Robotics; Michael Sikorski, chief technology officer and VP of engineering at Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks; Ajay Amlani, president and head of the Americas at iProov; and Jake Laperruque, deputy director of Security and Surveillance Project at The Center for Democracy and Technology.
• Albacore ☁️ on X — I was able to get Recall working on this bad boy 😎 Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4 GB of RAM, no NPU in sight
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest — Musk claims xAI is valued at $18 billion, as it reportedly seeks to build its own AI supercomputer by late next year.
• ESG ETFs Struggle to Keep Investors on Board — Over the past 12 months, the $13.3 billion iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) has experienced $9.2 billion worth of outflows. The $1 billion Xtrackers MSCI USA Leaders Equity ETF (USSG) has watched $2.5 billion go out the door over the same period. And the $1.2 billion iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (SUSL) has suffered $2.3 billion worth of outflows.
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• Apple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac — Developers interested in porting Windows games to the Mac can watch Apple's series of "bring your game to Mac" videos for more details. Apple also has a page on its website outlining various gaming technologies and tools available for developers.
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• Cheaper Apple Vision Headset Likely to Launch by End of 2025 — Apple still plans to launch a more affordable version of its Vision Pro headset by the end of 2025, with the non-Pro model likely to be called "Apple Vision One," or more simply, "Apple Vision," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• Apple Executive Discusses New Mac Pro's Lack of Graphics Card Support — "Fundamentally, we've built our architecture around this shared memory model and that optimization, and so it's not entirely clear to me how you'd bring in another GPU and do so in a way that is optimized for our systems," Ternus told Gruber. "It hasn't been a direction that we wanted to pursue."
• Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO — Fallout from the unpopular API pricing change and disastrous AMA with CEO Steve Huffman is turning out the lights on some of Reddit’s most prominent communities.
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• Sebastiaan de With on Twitter — Reddit’s AMA with its CEO on their API (read: third party app killing) is a train wreck. These are remakes from their CEO. Why does Reddit consistently have such terrible leadership? Before this, Huffman had no public interactions with the community or website for 10 months.
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