Foreword
I triaged a little harder today, sparing you some of the gossipy interpersonal dramas at the intersection of AI and politics that I don’t think matter very much. There wasn’t much left after that. It feels like we might have our first quiet weekend in quite some time.
OpenAI has told more than 100 orgs they may have been hit by unauthorized agent activity
This is according to an update to the company’s post about the Hugging Face attacks.
Notification does not mean that any private information was accessed, or that there was a compromise of any third-party system.
Pope calls for church to form “alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.”
Because algorithms that lack human “spark.”
California attorney general serves OpenAI an investigative subpoena for its rogue incidents
This is part of the state’s ongoing investigation of the Hugging Face attack.
The state DOJ asks anyone with information to contact oag.ca.gov/report.
CA DOJ - As Part of Ongoing Investigation, Attorney General Bonta Serves Investigative Subpoena on OpenAI
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Meta, too, fires safety researchers
Just days after OpenAI fired safety researchers for over-sharing with independent safety groups, Semafor reports that employees Meta had picked up in an acqui-hire from safety start-up Virtue four months ago are being let go over “clashing work styles.”
I don’t see any info on the number of employees involved, but it sounds like all the Virtue people, which would be at least the three co-founders named in coverage from the initial hire. Said coverage indicated an unspecified number of other employees had joined them.
Meta insists its Superintelligence Labs remains committed to AI safety.
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