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Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

The tech giant plans to use the data to improve its AI models.

What Flock’s defenders are missing

As cities reconsider the technology, it’s worth asking how the company’s design choices have shaped the trade-off between solving crimes and protecting civil liberties.

Bloomberg: Andreesen Horowitz is the focus of an antitrust investigation.

According to Bloomberg, a “nearly year-old investigation” is looking into the possibility that a16z “investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies.” Co-founder Ben Horowitz is on the board of Databricks, while partner Martin Casado was on the board of dbt labs before it was acquired by Fivetran, where he now holds a seat.

These french fries told me I made a really good point.

AI terminology has broken containment so thoroughly that there’s actually something called “Fries GPT” on the menu at Dave & Buster’s, I regret to inform us. GPT stands for garlic, parmesan, and truffle dust in this case, which is a lot going on, flavor-wise. Personally, I think D&B should have committed to the bit and let you wash them down with an ice-cold LLMonade, but alas.

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Andreessen Horowitz focus of DOJ probe over board directors

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies, according to people familiar with the matter.

Hidden Airtag Reveals Amazon is Trashing Rare Books to Train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

What AI has in common with dogs

When mulling how AI will transform society, consider an earlier technology that gave humans a helpful companion with superior capabilities: the dog. By domesticating wolves, humans were able, indirectly, to smell game far away and hear enemies approaching at night. They became better hunters than Neanderthals and better warriors: hard to ambush, hard to elude. Dogs are one reason why Homo sapiens outcompeted their prehistoric cousins and conquered the world, some anthropologists believe.

YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost

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OpenAI president says companies should do 10 things ASAP to defend against AI cyber threats

"Time is of the essence," OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman said while sounding the alarm that companies need to upgrade their cybersecurity efforts.

The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold

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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.