Collaborate Disseminate
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A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, New Mexico’s highest court said. The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday … Continue reading ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
Reservations are now live for Valve’s “Steam Frame” VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). “It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB,” reports CNET, “and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don’t already o… Continue reading Reservations Go Live for Valve’s Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
Previously Andon Labs handled the hardware and software integration for that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”.Today the… Continue reading A Visit to San Francisco’s AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
“Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages,” reports the Los Angeles Times. In fact, the state hasn’t implemented rotating power outages since 2020.
Because “Over the last few ye… Continue reading No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 – Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers “voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining,” reports Kotaku, “consolidating Blizzard’s many smaller unions into three larger bargaining units.”… Continue reading Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
Silicon Valley giants and national security experts “are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation,” reports CNBC. But “I would do nothing,” says Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. “We could argue that there should be an Ameri… Continue reading Should US Open-Weight AI Labs ‘Distill’ Frontier Models Too?
A union representing Uber and Lyft drivers was just certified by California’s Public Employment Relations Board, officially recognizing them as the drivers’ bargaining organization.
The Sacramento Bee reports that this new bargaining structure :
“This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads,” says Emmy award-winning reporter Brendan Keefe in a new video for InvestigateTV. In an accompanying article, InvestigateTV says their reporter “parked on the… Continue reading Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter – For Filming Them in Public
A swarm of OpenAI agents launched a “major malicious attack” against RubyGems last May, according to a new report. That coordinated attack hit Ruby’s package manager “with hundreds of junk gems, prompting the maintainers to suspend new user sign-ups fo… Continue reading Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
America’s highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that “the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money” also aske… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court