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☆ Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk's $1 million bounty. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has some kind of bounty out for whomever is behind the botnets that he says target certain users and suppresses the reach of their tweets. Million dollar bounty if convicted" in response to a Twitter user who claimed that botnets "silence" certain accounts. Musk and the user were referring to a thread where another user analyzed Twitter's recently open-sourced algorithm. Twitter users called attention to the difficulty in seeing direct messages that mention "gay", "queer", and "trans."
☆ Peace, love, and Hitler: How Lex Fridman's podcast became a safe space for the anti-woke tech elite
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +26 min
Seemingly overnight, episodes of Fridman's podcast began racking up millions of views. YouTube/Lex FridmanIn his podcast, Fridman asks world-renowned scientists, historians, artists, and engineers a series of wide-eyed questions ("Who is God? But recently, "The Lex Fridman Podcast" has become a haven for a growing — and powerful — sector looking to dismantle years of "wokeness" and cancel culture. Twitter"The Lex Fridman Podcast" offered a rare opportunity to listen to four-hour conversations with luminaries of tech and science. Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder and publisher of the socialist magazine Jacobin who appeared on Fridman's podcast in December, praised Fridman's interviewing style.
☆ OpenAI CEO says it's not 'a big dunk' that he fears super intelligent AI, and its risks are 'far beyond anything we're prepared for'
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
"I think it's weird when people think it's like a big dunk that I say, I'm a little bit afraid," Altman told Fridman. Companies like Khan Academy, which provides online classes, are already tapping into the technology, using GPT-4 to build AI tools. "In the spirit of building in public and, and bringing society along gradually, we put something out, it's got flaws, we'll make better versions," Altman told Fridman. It was more inclined to answer questions about where to buy unlicensed guns, or about self-harm, whereas the version launched declined to answer those types of questions, according to OpenAI's document. "I think we, as OpenAI, have responsibility for the tools we put out into the world," Altman told Fridman.
☆ OpenAI's Sam Altman says his 'hero' Elon Musk is 'obviously attacking' the company on Twitter
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Elon Musk is "obviously attacking" his company on Twitter. Speaking on an episode of Lex Fridman's podcast, released on March 25, Altman said: "Elon is obviously attacking us some on Twitter right now on a few different vectors." Musk, an OpenAI cofounder who has since severed ties with the company, has made a series of digs at OpenAI in recent months. "I believe he is, understandably so, really stressed about AGI safety," Altman said, describing Musk as one of his heroes. Representatives for Musk and Altman did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.
☆ BASF shareholders say Russia exit sets up oil and gas IPO
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Patricia Weiss Ludwig Burger | Patricia Weiss | Ludwig Burger | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Jan 19 (Reuters) - BASF (BASFn.DE) investors said that oil and gas business Wintershall Dea's exit from Russia, though painful, clears the way for plans to take it public and for BASF to focus on its chemicals operations. Portfolio manager Arne Rautenberg of mutual fund company Union Investment, among the 10 largest BASF shareholders, welcomed BASF drawing a line. "This step will facilitate an IPO of Wintershall Dea," said Cornelia Zimmermann, a corporate governance specialist at mutual fund group Deka Investment. BASF said last year that the oil and gas company's exposure in Russia was the reason for it to hold off on plans to take Wintershall Dea public. Before the Ukraine war, Russia had accounted for roughly half of WD's global oil and gas output.
☆ Wintershall Dea to leave Russia, causing net loss at BASF
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
"Wintershall Dea will end its Russian activities. Continuing to operate in Russia is not tenable," said Mario Mehren, CEO of Wintershall Dea, which is a 72.7%-27.3% joint venture between BASF and Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's investment firm LetterOne. BASF said the impairment would cause a 1.4 billion euros net loss in 2022 according to preliminary results. Wintershall Dea intends to fully exit Russia, BASF said, citing "extensive loss of actual influence and economic expropriation" in the country. Earnings before interest and tax were 6.5 billion euros, slightly below analysts' estimates of 6.8 billion euros.
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