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Eliza Strickland, writing in IEEE Spectrum »
The just-released AI Safety Index graded six leading AI companies on their risk assessment efforts and safety procedures… and the top of class was Anthropic, with an overall score of C. The other five companies—Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Zhipu AI—received grades of D+ or lower, with Meta flat out failing.
While the report does not issue any recommendations for either AI companies or policymakers, Tegmark feels strongly that its findings show a clear need for regulatory oversight—a government entity equivalent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that would approve AI products before they reach the market.
“I feel that the leaders of these companies are trapped in a race to the bottom that none of them can get out of, no matter how kind-hearted they are,” Tegmark says. Today, he says, companies are unwilling to slow down for safety tests because they don’t want competitors to beat them to the market. “Whereas if there are safety standards, then instead there’s commercial pressure to see who can meet the safety standards first, because then they get to sell first and make money first.”
A data centre typically uses 125 million litres of water per year.
Dina Bass, writing in Bloomberg »
Microsoft Corp., trying to mitigate the climate impact of its data center building boom, is starting to roll out a new design that uses zero water to cool the facilities’ chips and servers.
Launched in August, the new design will eliminate the more than 125 million liters of water each data center typically uses per year, the company said in a statement. The new system use a “closed loop” to recycle water; liquid is added during construction and continually circulated — obviating the need for fresh supplies.
U.S. officials say Chinese hackers breached American’s phone data and that they continue to have access to the American telecom networks. Former National Security Agency (NSA) General Counsel Glenn Gerstell says China is a ‘very serious national security threat.’
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Kat Tenbarg, writing in NBC News »
On Sunday, Musk confirmed the platform has deprioritized posts including links, which was how journalists and other creators historically shared their work. But four journalists told NBC News that after millions of users migrated to Bluesky, an alternative that resembles a pared-back version of X, after the election, they are rebuilding their audiences there, too.
“My average post that isn’t a hot-button issue or isn’t trending might not perform as well on X as it does on Bluesky,” said Phil Lewis, a senior front page editor at HuffPost who has over 400,000 followers on X and close to 300,000 on Bluesky. “Judging by retweets, likes and comments, it’s a world of difference.”
Platform and audience editors at The Guardian and The Boston Globe have publicly noted higher traffic to their news websites from Bluesky than from competitors including Threads, Meta’s X alternative. Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, quoted the Guardian’s stats, writing: “We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don’t de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.”