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Elon Musk Withdraws His Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

✇NYT: Technology
Cade Metz
The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

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Mr. Musk founded his own artificial intelligence company last year called xAI, and has repeatedly claimed that OpenAI was not focused enough on the dangers of the technology.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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Sheera Frenkel
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

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The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture

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Kevin Roose
A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

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Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI’s governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees who say the company has a reckless culture.

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

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Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

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Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.

Google Eats Rocks, a Win for A.I. Interpretability and Safety Vibe Check

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Kevin Roose， Casey Newton， Rachel Cohn， Whitney Jones， Jen Poyant， Brad Fisher， Dan Powell， Marion Lozano， Sophia Lanman， Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong
“Pass me the nontoxic glue and a couple of rocks, because it’s time to whip up a meal with Google’s new A.I. Overviews.”

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OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

✇NYT: Technology
Cade Metz
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

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As Sam Altman’s OpenAI trains its new model, its new Safety and Security committee will work to hone policies and processes for safeguarding the technology, the company said.

ScarJo vs. ChatGPT, Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up, and Microsoft’s A.I. PCs

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Kevin Roose， Casey Newton， Rachel Cohn， Whitney Jones， Jen Poyant， Alyssa Moxley， Dan Powell， Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
“Did you ever think we would have a literal Avenger fighting back against the relentless march of A.I.? Because that’s sort of what this story is about.”

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AI’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious

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Kevin Roose
Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats.

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Anthropic researchers found that turning certain features on or off in the company’s chatbot could change how the A.I. system behaved.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

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Cade Metz
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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Cade Metz and Nico Grant
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.
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