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How Mark Zuckerberg went to war with his own board of directors over pay and power

Mark Zuckerberg went to war over power and money with his own board of directors at Meta, asking for a significant pay increase and threatening to leave California in months of negotiations that saw board members contemplate resigning if the billionaire didn’t relent.

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

Epic Games is promoting a game jam where AI is welcome with a six-fingered hand.

And a red pill meme. You can see the post on X here.

OpenAI’s misalignment monitoring system had “a number of novel vulnerabilities,” third-party evaluators found.

From July 21st to August 11th, two employees from METR and Redwood Research conducted a “pilot” to stress test the system, and METR published a high-level overview of their findings, as reported by CNBC. One exploit would have allowed agents to “prevent hundreds of recent actions (including the actions involved in the exploit itself) from being monitored.”

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

Canva’s First AI Image Model Plans Designs Before Generating Them

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Designing an AI serving harness built to last

The engineering system surrounding an AI model increasingly determines whether its intelligence can be delivered reliably, economically, and at scale.

Here's how to protect your information from the PHP flaw, according to cybersecurity pros

Cybersecurity researchers say the PHP vulnerability has repercussions for normal people, too. They have some advice.

Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say

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Meta Turns Muse Sharing Back On

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O'Leary Digital's CEO says skeptics are missing the full picture on its massive AI data center plans

O'Leary Digital CEO Paul Palandjian defends its AI data center plans, saying Bernstein's skeptical analysis misses confidential work.