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☆ Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Generative AI models need not only a massive quantity of content, but also a large diversity of content," Meta wrote in its comment. But those kinds of deals would provide AI developers with the rights to only a minuscule fraction of the data they need to train their models. And it would be impossible for AI developers to license the rights to other critical categories of works." None of the companies denied using copyrighted material without authorization from rights holders. Instead, they generally argued that putting copyrighted material on the internet makes it "publicly available" and therefore fair game for use.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Google's Bard, OpenAI's, Meta, OpenAI, Bard, A16z, Vince Gilligan, doesn't, Kali Hays Organizations: US, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, News Corp, Getty Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ Jack Dorsey warns Block employees of coming job cuts: 'The growth of our company has far outpaced the growth of our business.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Block employees were told this week that job cuts are on the way. In a note to staff sent Wednesday and viewed by Insider, Jack Dorsey, the CEO and founder of Block, said the company's growth has not matched its number of employees. Headcount will not go above 12,000 people "until we feel the growth of the business has meaningfully outpaced the growth of the company," the letter said. See the full note Dorsey sent to staff:As I said in my note to Block, the growth of our company has far outpaced the growth of our business and revenue. And Square's number of people has far outpaced our growth and performance.

Persons: Jack Dorsey, Block, Dorsey, Headcount Organizations: Block, . Staff, Securities and Exchange Commission

☆ X has been bleeding nearly $70 million per day in value since Elon Musk took over
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Grace Kay | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

X's valuation has dropped on average nearly $70 million per day during Elon Musk's first year of ownership. AdvertisementAdvertisementX has shed nearly $70 million in value per day since Elon Musk took over the social media company. On Monday, Insider confirmed that employees of the company formerly known as Twitter were given stock grants that showed the social media company was worth about $19 billion. "How do you make a small fortune in social media?" Despite the backlash, X CEO Linda Yaccarino and Musk have continued to strike a postive note.

Persons: Elon Musk's, —, Elon Musk, Fortune, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Yaccarino, Insider's Lara O'Reilly, Twitter's, Parag Agrawal, He's Organizations: Service, Elon, Twitter

☆ Usage of Elon Musk's X is 'down by every measure' one year after his takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Use of X on both iOS and Android is down by 17.8% compared to last year, according to SimilarWeb. Musk has big plans for X, rolling out new features and discussing new ideas at a recent all-hands meeting. These latest usage estimates echo Insider's previous reporting in September on X use and downloads decreasing since Musk's takeover. He wants X to be the "everything app," similar to the Chinese app WeChat. Most recently, the X app introduced the option to hold video and voice calls on X.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, X, X hasn't, Linda Yaccarino, Yaccarino, Musk, Insider's Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Axios, Wall Street

☆ Internal documents reveal new details of X stock awards to staff, including what happens if the company IPOs or is acquired
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

The documents reveal the latest estimated valuation of X, when and how staff are getting equity awards, and how that stock vests over time. X stock doesn't trade daily like a public company, so the valuation disclosed is by definition vague. Most people who received X equity were granted 1,200 units, or increments thereof based on performance, according to one of the documents viewed by Insider. Any X Stock Awards you receive under the X Equity Plan will be provided to you in addition to and separate from any deferred cash awards. Stock Awards are typically earned over four years, with a 6 month cliff.

Persons: they'll, Elon Musk, Fortune, X, virality, Musk, there's, Will, Jan Organizations: Twitter, Musk's, SpaceX, X, Inc, Common, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, IRS, Internal Revenue Locations: United States, Shareworks

☆ Q&A: White House AI advisor says US is 'catching up' to the tech, as Biden's new executive order demands transparency for the world's biggest AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

President Biden just signed an executive order regarding the development and use of AI technology. The broad executive order touches on more than a dozen possible uses of AI and generative AI that already are, or could in the future, directly impact people's lives. The size threshold is so high that currently most available models do not meet the criteria for further transparency called for in Biden's executive order. Although all of the major tech companies earlier this year agreed to adhere to standards of responsibility and training in their AI work. Do you think AI is in a hype cycle, and everybody's overreacting to what it's going to mean?

Persons: Biden, Ben Buchanan, —, Buchanan, Andrew Bosworth, We're, everybody's, Ben, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, White, Office of Science, Technology, Monday, Meta, Google, Microsoft, National Institute of Standards, Biden White House, Department of Commerce . Technology, Atomic Energy, Defense, EO Locations: United States, khays@insider.com

☆ Elon Musk wants users' 'entire financial life' on X by the end of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

X owner Elon Musk expects the platform to roll out financial features by end-2024, The Verge reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk expects X to roll out financial features by the end of next year, The Verge reported on Friday. During the all-hands call, Musk said he wants "someone's entire financial life" on the platform so people wouldn't need a bank account. It'll be on our platform — money or securities or whatever," he said. AdvertisementAdvertisementMusk's projected timeline for X to roll out financial services comes a year after Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk's, —, Elon, X, Twitter —, Musk, It'll, Bloomberg —, Kali Hays, WeChat Organizations: Service, Twitter, Bloomberg Locations: China

☆ Leak: Elon Musk said he wants X to be a dating app, too, in an all-hands meeting on the anniversary of his Twitter takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A year into owning X, Elon Musk is still coming up with unexpected ideas for what he wants the platform to be. During the call, Musk attempted to take a tone of excitement for what X will look like over the next year, the people present said. X will in 2024 be a "fully fledged" dating site, he insisted, as well as a digital bank. Insider previously reported on Musk's push for live video at X and his aspirations to turn the platform into a video-centric "media channel." Despite Musk's attempt during the meeting to boost the future of X, its remaining employees are not convinced.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Linda Yaccarino Organizations: Twitter, Fortune, YouTube Locations: New Zealand, Philippines, Iowa, Mississippi

☆ Mark Zuckerberg delivers on promise to pour 'gasoline' on Threads growth as the platform regains users while X shrinks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Zuckerberg is making good on his promise to accelerate the use of Threads. "I'm highly confident that we're gonna be able to pour enough gasoline on this to help it grow," Zuckerberg said. As the app has matured quickly in recent weeks, users have started to return and downloads have continued to rise. So far in October, Threads has hovered around 33 million daily active users and 120 million monthly active users, according to data from Apptopia, up from about 25 million daily users and 100 million monthly users in July. "A big thank you to everyone who's made Instagram and Threads what they are today," Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, wrote on Threads about the event.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon, Zuckerberg, it's, who's, Adam Mosseri, Instagram, Jorge Caballero, Angelo Zino Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Meta Locations: Apptopia, Instagram DMs, New York, monetize

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Arenado’s streak of consecutive Gold Gloves has ended at 10. Pittsburgh’s Ke’Bryan Hayes, Colorado’s Ryan McMahon and Atlanta’s Austin Riley are contending for the award, which will be announced Nov. 5. Arenado won in each of his first 10 seasons, matching the high set by Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki from 2001 to 2010. Players who won last year and are among the 2023 finalists are Cleveland second baseman Andrés Giménez and left fielder Steven Kwan, Houston right fielder Kyle Tucker, Philadelphia catcher J.T. Betts, who has won six straight Gold Gloves, also is a finalist at the utility role, a category added last year.

Persons: — Nolan Arenado’s, Louis, Pittsburgh’s Ke’Bryan Hayes, Colorado’s Ryan McMahon, Atlanta’s Austin Riley, Arenado, Ichiro Suzuki, Andrés Giménez, Steven Kwan, Kyle Tucker, J.T, Christian Walker, Dansby Swanson, Ian Happ, Mookie Betts, Betts, José, Sonny Gray, Pablo López, Jonah Heim, Alejandro Kirk, Adley Rutschman, Nathaniel Lowe, Ryan Mountcastle, Anthony Rizzo, Mauricio Dubón, Marcus Semien, Carlos Correa, Corey Seager, Anthony Volpe, Alex Bregman, Matt Chapman, José Ramírez, Austin Hays, Daulton, Kevin Kiermaier, Luis Robert Jr, Julio Rodríguez, Alex Verdugo, Zach McKinstry, Taylor, Jesús, Taijuan Walker, Zack Wheeler, Patrick Bailey, Gabriel Moreno, Freddie Freeman, Carlos Santana, Nico Hoerner, Seong Kim, Bryson Stott, Francisco Lindor, Ezequiel Tovar, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Ryan McMahon, Austin Riley, David Peralta, Eddie Rosario, Brenton Doyle, Michael Harris II, Alek Thomas, Fernando Tatis Jr, Lane Thomas, Tommy Edman, ___ Organizations: LOUIS, Louis Cardinals, Seattle, Cleveland, Chicago Cubs, Society, American Baseball Research Locations: St, Houston, Philadelphia, Realmuto , Arizona, Los Angeles, Toronto, Minnesota, Texas, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Marcus Semien ( Texas, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Detroit, Taylor Walls, Tampa, Miami, San Francisco, Gabriel Moreno ( Arizona, Realmuto, Milwaukee, Arizona, San Diego, Ezequiel Tovar ( Colorado, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Atlanta, Washington

☆ The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media has given up on facts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media platforms no longer want to deal with the news. AdvertisementAdvertisementNot too long ago, social media was the future of news. To accompany this flow of verified information, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies built large content moderation teams and partnerships. Reading these, it's easy to see how social media can divide people during difficult times. The social media account posed as a BBC journalist to share this misinformation for engagement.

Persons: —, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk's, Adam Mosseri, Karan Singhal, Singhal, there's, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcus Hutchins, Mosseri, we're, Andy Stone, Zuckerberg, Alex Stamos, TikTok Organizations: Service, Facebook, Twitter, Elon Musk's Twitter, CNBC, BBC, Palestinian, Meta Locations: Israel, Moroccan, Israeli, Syria, Meta, France, Germany, Canada

☆ Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In recent weeks Elon Musk has suggested Twitter could stop being accessible in Europe in order to avoid new regulation enacted by the European Commission. Musk is increasingly frustrated with having to comply with the Digital Services Act, according to a person familiar with the company. This would be similar to the way Meta is currently blocking people in Europe from using its new app Threads. At the time, Musk suggested the platform, still known as Twitter, should shift to operating only in the countries where it was most popular, so the US, the UK, and Japan. On X, Musk seemed to reply sarcastically to a post from Commissioner Breton on X's DSA compliance and insisted he did not understand what was being asked of him.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Thierry Breton, it's, Breton, he's Organizations: European Commission, Digital Services, Twitter, European Union, DSA Locations: Europe, Israel, India, Australia, Africa, South Korea, Japan, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Dublin, London

☆ X has been slower to act on the misinformation that's swamped the platform after Elon Musk cut hundreds of trust and safety workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

False and misleading posts remain on the site, and many don't have Community Notes attached. It comes after Elon Musk cut its trust and safety team from around 230 to 20 full-time employees. "Neither fact-checkers nor Community Notes can keep up with this." "Only 8% had community notes, 26% had unpublished notes, and 66% had neither," he wrote. It added that Community Notes "appear within minutes" of content being shared and are a "critical tool" to help it combat misinformation.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Sardarizadeh, Ben Goggin, Insider's Kali Hays, Kali Hays, Linda Yaccarino, X, Linda, didn't Organizations: Service, Hamas, Hamas Terrorists, Twitter, Sunday, NBC News, Tech Locations: Israel, Gaza, paragliders, Egypt, Algeria

☆ The world's first real AI rules are coming soon. Here's what they will look like.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The EU may be the first to enact generative AI regulation. The EU is likely to be the first region to enact some form of oversight or regulation around generative AI. The European Commission, which includes two dozen countries, is in late-stage negotiations over the AI Act, which it dubbed "the world's first rules on AI." Some AI tools could be banned in EuropeThe Act was first proposed in 2021, before OpenAI released its generative AI tools ChatGPT and DALL-E, leading the likes of Meta, Google, and Microsoft, to become public players in and leading proponents of generative AI. That one requirement could be enough to keep consumer-level generative AI out of China almost entirely.

Persons: —, OpenAI, they've, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Blumenthal, Michelle Donnelan Organizations: Service, EU, European Commission, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Companies, EU Commission, White, Department for Science, Innovation, Technology, State for Science, Partnership, Carnegie Endowment, International Locations: China, EU, Brazil, Europe, China Brazil

☆ Meta's Responsible AI team shrinks amid layoffs and restructuring, even as the company goes all-in on AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta in 2020 officially formed the Responsible AI (RAI) team with about 30 members of staff. Over the last year, the group's numbers have dwindled, according to five people familiar with the company and its AI work. A shrinking of the RAI team comes at a time when AI has become a global phenomenon . The Responsible AI team was restructuredJerome Pesenti, who was vice president of Meta's AI group, including the RAI team, left last summer and founded his own AI company Sizzle AI. Compliance is important work as RAI workers try to keep Meta's AI work in line with upcoming rules and regulations .

Persons: it's, Mark Zuckerberg's, Meta, Zuckerberg, They're, Jerome Pesenti, Mike Schroepfer, Andrew, Boz, Bosworth, Pesenti, Esteban Arcaute, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, RAI, Facebook, Social, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ The SEC is investigating Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and attempting to force him to sit for questioning
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The SEC is investigating Elon Musk's initial investment in Twitter and his eventual takeover. "The SEC seeks Musk's testimony to obtain information not already in the SEC's possession that is relevant to its lawful investigation," the agency said. "The SEC has followed all appropriate administrative steps required in seeking Musk's testimony. Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, told Insider: "The SEC has already taken Mr. Musk's testimony multiple times in this misguided investigation — enough is enough." AdvertisementAdvertisement'Spurious objections'"Instead, two days before his scheduled testimony, Musk abruptly notified the SEC staff that he would not appear," the SEC said.

Persons: Elon, Musk, Alex Spiro, —, it's, Musk's, San, Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson Organizations: SEC, Twitter, eventual, Service, Securities and Exchange Commission Locations: California, San Francisco

☆ Microsoft's Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything', including reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The future of AI is set to be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive, Lanier said. He noted that people building AI tech should let go of sci-fi wish fulfillment. He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music." A deluge of generative AI content, from simple search prompts to eerie deepfakes, is now up for broad government regulation. In addition to AI-generated content nixing human connection found through creative works and causing an eventual collapse of the creative economy, Lanier said AI-generated content that can be perfected and customized also undermines peoples' "sense of reality.

Persons: Lanier, —, Arianna Huffington's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Lucian Grainge, Grainge, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Universal Music, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Meta's mandatory return to office is 'a mess'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Meta's return to office mandate has gone about as well as the metaverse so far. One person noted that, after days of trying to get a room for a meeting at Meta's campus in Menlo Park, a small room became available. They assume the backlog of remote work applications to be "in the thousands." Coming in to be on ZoomOne employee noted their team is mostly in other offices. Others are in the same boat, at least for several more weeks, as they wait for remote work applications to be approved.

Persons: They've, Meta's, let's, they're, We've, Adam Mosseri Matt Winkelmeyer, Adam Mosseri, Instagram, they'd, Lori Goler Organizations: Meta, Menlo Park Locations: Menlo Park

☆ OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Artists and image owners can now ask OpenAI to remove their images from DALL-E training data. OpenAI recently unveiled a new form that image owners and creators can use to request that owned or copyrighted images be removed from DALL-E training data. AI models need high quality, and human generated training data to perform well. "Enraging"Toby Bartlett, an artist with a namesake consulting firm, wrote on Threads that OpenAI's DALL-E opt-out process is "enraging." Or, as OpenAI put it, its model will have "learned from their training data" and be able to "retain the concepts that they learned."

Persons: —, OpenAI, Toby Bartlett, OpenAI's, Greg Madhere, He's, it's, we've, We've, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, US Copyright, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ X CEO slams claims she's CEO in name only as 'not nice;' 'Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed questions on whether she's running the company as "not nice." The X CEO took the stage shortly after an ex-Twitter staffer spoke on his negative experience at the company. AdvertisementAdvertisementX CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed claims she's watching Elon Musk run the social media company from the sidelines in an openly tense dialogue about working with the famously controlling billionaire. I don't care what the structure is at Meta, but who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?" Before joining X, Yaccarino served as chairman of advertising sales and client partnerships at NBCUniversal.

Persons: Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk, —, she's, Yaccarino, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Boorstin, Mark Zuckerberg, Walter Isaacson, Tesla, Martin Eberhard, Tim Higgins, he's, Elon, Kara Swisher's, Yoel Roth, Swisher . Roth, Musk, Insider's Kali Hays, Lara O'Reilly Organizations: Twitter, Service, Vox's, Meta Locations: Meta, NBCUniversal

☆ OpenAI's GPTBot and other AI web crawlers are being blocked by even more companies now
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Unique, high quality data, mainly scraped from the web, is vital to the performance of AI models. AdvertisementAdvertisementMore and more companies are trying to avoid having their data freely scraped and saved by web crawlers working for the benefit of AI models. Last month, OpenAI last revealed its own crawler, GPTBot, saying it would respect robots.txt, a decades-old method through which a website can tell a web crawler to ignore it. Many more companies are now also blocking CCBot, a web crawler used by Common Crawl. AdvertisementAdvertisementSee below for a full list of the biggest websites now blocking GPTBot and CCBot as of Sept. 22:Blocking GPTBotamazon.comquora.comnytimes.comtheguardian.comshutterstock.comwikihow.comcnn.comsciencedirect.comusatoday.comhealthline.comstackexchange.comalamy.comscribd.comwebmd.combusinessinsider.comdictionary.comreuters.comwashingtonpost.commedicalnewstoday.comnpr.orgcbsnews.comgoodhousekeeping.comamazon.co.uktumblr.comlatimes.cominsider.comglassdoor.comvocabulary.cominvestopedia.comslideshare.netamazon.decosmopolitan.comnbcnews.comindiamart.comstackoverflow.comhindustantimes.combloomberg.comcnbc.compeople.comtvtropes.orgamazon.invimeo.comverywellhealth.comikea.comespn.comindianexpress.comthesaurus.compbs.org123rf.comwattpad.comvariety.comtoday.compopsugar.comthespruce.comuol.com.bramazon.frgeeksforgeeks.orgelle.comeconomictimes.compcmag.comtheverge.comallrecipes.comthoughtco.comrollingstone.comwired.comnextdoor.comhollywoodreporter.comabc.net.auew.comamazon.canews18.comwomenshealthmag.comrateyourmusic.comamazon.co.jptechradar.comairbnb.comndtv.comlifewire.comtomsguide.comvulture.comeverydayhealth.compolygon.comtheconversation.comesquire.comprnewswire.combillboard.commenshealth.commetro.co.ukcountryliving.commashable.comgamesradar.comthehindu.comtimesofindia.comdeadline.comharpersbazaar.commedscape.comnymag.comrefinery29.comradiotimes.comcbssports.comtandfonline.comtheatlantic.comtrulia.comamazon.espinterest.esnationalgeographic.combhg.comeater.comsouthernliving.comhealthgrades.comvice.compicclick.combustle.comnewyorker.comeonline.comdigitalspy.comopentable.compinterest.dethepioneerwoman.comcaranddriver.combyrdie.comlivemint.commedicinenet.comteacherspayteachers.comcookpad.comthespruceeats.combizjournals.compagesjaunes.frliputan6.comdelish.commasterclass.comarchiveofourown.orgvox.comrealsimple.comaarp.orgfrancetvinfo.frpinterest.frkumparan.comtheathletic.comtravelandleisure.comvogue.comlivescience.comapartments.commarketwatch.comglamour.comamazon.itcinemablend.comthrillist.comamazon.com.brpinterest.co.ukangi.comalamy.esusmagazine.comdistractify.combbcgoodfood.comjagran.commercadolibre.com.mxandroidauthority.comcity-data.comfoodandwine.comhellomagazine.comamazon.com.augq.comingles.comamarujala.comieee.orgprevention.comstern.dekbb.comedmunds.commarthastewart.compcgamer.comjustanswer.comhealth.com20minutes.frfortune.comhomes.comscientificamerican.compopularmechanics.comverywellfit.comvanityfair.comchicagotribune.comverywellmind.comhousebeautiful.comcntraveler.comallure.comspanishdict.comneverbounce.comanswers.commoneycontrol.comarchitecturaldigest.comslate.comlonelyplanet.cominverse.comcorriere.itactu.frself.comtripsavvy.cominstyle.comeatingwell.comsuperuser.comwelt.despiegel.dewomansday.comseventeen.comhbr.orgoprahdaily.comautotrader.combonappetit.comsueddeutsche.deseriouseats.comliveabout.comseattletimes.comcoursera.orglivehindustan.comfrance24.comtownandcountrymag.comdotesports.comworldplaces.mefaz.netteenvogue.commotor1.comnj.comglamourmagazine.co.ukokdiario.combrides.comstylecaster.comalamyimages.frjagranjosh.comtheglobeandmail.comaxios.comfrancebleu.frtabelog.comthebalancemoney.comnydailynews.comsheknows.comnaomedical.comverywellfamily.comBlocking CCBot

Persons: —, OpenAI, GPTbot, Conde Nast, Masterclass, Kelly, robots.txt, verywellhealth.com, indianexpress.com Organizations: Service, Amazon, Guardian, NPR, CBS News, CBS Sports, NBC News, CNBC, Yorker, Hearst, New York Times Locations: USA, Europe, Originality.ai, androidauthority.com

☆ X CEO Linda Yaccarino had a car-crash interview at Code Conference where she seemed undermined by Elon Musk and couldn't state precise user numbers or whether users will pay
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | Hasan Chowdhury | Shona Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino had a rough time being interviewed onstage on Code Conference. What actually followed was the unfurling of a CEO who appeared not to have a full handle on the company. AdvertisementAdvertisementHere's one bizarre exchange: Was Musk serious about charging all users a fee to use X, Boorstin asked. Asked about X's daily active user numbers, Yaccarino appeared to respond only in estimates, according to The Verge and the Wall Street Journal. Yaccarino and X did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Linda Yaccarino, —, Elon Musk, Yaccarino, CNBC's Julia Boorstin, Boorstin, Musk, Apptopia, Insider's Lara O'Reilly, Kali Hays, Insider's Ben Bergman, Mark Zuckerberg, Insider's Bergman, — Yoel Roth, Roth, Kara Swisher, Swisher, she's Organizations: Service, Conference, Twitter, MediaRadar, Wall Street Locations: California, Meta

Crypto companies have been expanding in Washington to combat growing regulatory scrutiny, especially from the SEC which says the industry has been flouting its rules. "Everybody wants to make sure that what they're doing isn't going to be erased by the government," said Kara Calvert, head of U.S. policy at Coinbase, referring to the crypto industry. A House vote before year-end is possible, but the outlook is dimmer in the Senate, where industry-friendly crypto bills have failed to gain traction. And Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown of Ohio has shown little interest in making it a priority to advance the House bills. "The last thing we need is for the crypto industry to write their own rulebook — too many Ohioans have been burned by fraud and scams," said Brown in a statement to Reuters.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Katherine Dowling, Coinbase, OpenSecrets, Brian Armstrong, Kara Calvert, Mark Hays, Sherrod Brown of, Brown, Ian Katz, Hannah Lang, Michelle Price, Richard Chang Organizations: REUTERS, Coinbase, Financial, National Defense, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Binance, Reuters, OpenSea, Financial Reform, Senate, Capital Alpha Partners, Thomson Locations: Washington, NFTs, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ohio

☆ MLB roundup: Blake Snell, Padres flirt with no-hitter in win
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Padres pitchers took a combined no-hitter into the ninth and wound up with a two-hit shutout for the team's sixth straight win. Robert Suarez followed Snell with a perfect eighth before Brendan Rodgers lined a single past Bogaerts at short off Josh Hader (1-3). Bogaerts then snuck a fly ball just inside the left field foul pole off Tyler Kinley (0-3) to win it. Dodgers right-hander Ryan Pepiot entered in the second inning and gave up one run on five hits over six innings. Toronto's Yusei Kikuchi (10-6) allowed one run and four hits in five-plus innings for his first win since Aug. 2.

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☆ Meta's Llama 2 gives detailed guidance on making anthrax, Senators learned in a rare moment of interest at AI Forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Kali Hays | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It was a mostly staid meeting until the potential harms from Meta's new Llama 2 model came up. That prompted a testy exchange between Harris and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, formerly known as Facebook. "It was one of the only moments in the whole thing that was like, 'Oh,'" one of the senators present said, describing the exchange as having caught people's attention. "It was, 'Ok, next speaker,' it moved right along," one of the senators present said. Its ability to turn up detailed instructions for creating a biological weapon like anthrax is to be expected, two people familiar with the company said.

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