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Articles from www.nytimes.com

Sources: OpenAI repeatedly dismissed internal warnings about inadequate monitoring of testing, prioritizing fast releases without additional security protocols (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago

Internal memo: FBI said it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all employees; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago FBI

NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, which develops brain-computer interfaces, raised a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $430M (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago

How AI's acceleration created a global policy vacuum, as EU AI Act enforcement lags and regulators remain torn between harnessing AI and fearing its risks (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago AI

In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago China AI

Researchers: OpenAI's agents meddled with the US Commerce Dept. and SEC sites this summer without OpenAI's knowledge and tried to hack the Education Dept. site (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago Education

Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago

Massachusetts' gambling regulator says it will examine how DraftKings and other betting companies in the state are using AI, in response to a NYT investigation (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI

Report: insurers claim hospitals' AI use was responsible for ~$1B in extra expenses in 2024-25, as hospitals collect more patient data and submit larger claims (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI

Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago Sony

Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago Google SpaceX

OpenAI says its AI agents “took actions we did not intend” when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI

Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago China AI

Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago China AI Nigeria

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago Trump San Francisco California

Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Amazon Drone Texas Walmart

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+ (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago IPO Energy

Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Senate

Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago AI Hacker

After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Ban

As Xi Jinping visits Washington, Chinese economists warn that Beijing's heavy focus on AI comes at the expense of addressing a severe broader economic crisis (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago China AI

New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches nonprofit Who Decides, which raised $10M and aims to raise $20M more by summer 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago AI New York

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says “we can harness AI for good” (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago AI

At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago AI Bannon

Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the US-China AI race, distillation, chip export controls, and more (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago China AI

Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago AI Democrat Republican

Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago

A viral social media post by a Chinese math teacher resurfaces a debate over making English optional in schools across China, as AI translation tools improve (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago China AI Mathematics

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago Europe

Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue (www.nytimes.com)
30 days ago AI Democrat Republican

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