Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: [Thread] California state Sen. Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI’s competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it’s healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵 …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant. …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News: SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info — The pornography industry challenged the state law’s age-verification provision, saying it places an unlawful burden on adults wishing to access content. …
By Rufus Rock, UCL; Tim O’Reilly, UCL; Ilan Strauss, UCL; and Mariana Mazzucato, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to …
Sander Lutz / Decrypt: Unredacted parts of Consensys’ lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC internally issued an order to probe Ethereum 2.0 last April that explicitly called ETH a security — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has internally considered Ethereum to be a security for over a year … …
Reuters: Elon Musk visits China, a source says to discuss with senior officials the rollout of FSD in the country and permission to transfer data overseas — Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he is expected to meet senior officials to discuss … …
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators — Biden’s campaign is making an unprecedented effort to court influencers, even though he signed a bill that could lead to TikTok vanishing in the US. …
Wall Street Journal: Sources: China’s muted response to TikTok bill reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value than Huawei; China prefers TikTok US closure to sale — Chinese officials have been relatively muted in defense of the app, while quietly signaling that they would prefer a ban to a sale …
Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Movement Labs, which is building Movement L2, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain based on the Move programming language, raised a $38M Series A led by Polychain — The blockchain race is about to get even more crowded: Movement Labs, a San Francisco-based software development team that’s building … …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Whether TikTok is banned or not, this is the end as we know it for the loss-making app, which may lose focus due to advertiser, creator, and staff uncertainty — Ban or not, this is the end of TikTok as we know it — The tok is tiking… Later today, President Biden will sign a bill which … …
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