What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? (arstechnica.com)
Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.
New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually (arstechnica.com)
We take a stab at decoding SpaceX’s ever-changing plans for Starship in Florida (arstechnica.com)
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules (arstechnica.com)
Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name (arstechnica.com)
Cats playing with robots proves a winning combo in novel art installation (arstechnica.com)
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care (arstechnica.com)
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (arstechnica.com)
Slack says policy changes are imminent amid backlash.
How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time (arstechnica.com)
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)
Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog (arstechnica.com)
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC (arstechnica.com)
Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules (arstechnica.com)
Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars “have full self-driving hardware.”...
Europe is uncertain whether its ambitious Mercury probe can reach the planet (arstechnica.com)
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)
Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved “laptop farm,” identity theft, and résumé coaching....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban (arstechnica.com)
Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.