Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B (The Information)
The Information: Source: SoftBank’s Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI’s latest funding round, SoftBank’s first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B
The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (Maggie Miller/Politico)
Maggie Miller / Politico: The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to
Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft's distilled AI models like Phi, trained on synthetic data, have left the Microsoft AI unit led by Mustafa Suleyman (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: some key staff working on Microsoft’s distilled AI models like Phi, trained on synthetic data, have left the Microsoft
A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a "handful" of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a “handful” of new orgs and is likely a male
Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative AI in its movies and TV shows (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Twilight, signs a deal with Runway to use generative
London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours have grown 91% YoY in 2024 (Joshua Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
Joshua Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times: London’s e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours
The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Andy Greenberg / Wired: The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU’s Unit 29155, which
A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge: A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services
LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been "thoroughly cleaned" of CSAM (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims
Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures —
