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Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites

Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites

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Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in a sign of the times, Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has launched its own game show. “MAFIA the GAME,” will apparently be an ongoing thing, where prominent tech luminaries get together and face off over a game of cards (the show is named after the party-game favorite). The spectacle is moderated by Pirate Wires editor Mike Solana (who is also the chief marketing officer at Founders Fund). The debut episode includes a who’s who of players — Sam Altman; Palmer Luckey; Bryan Johnson, the famed biohacker who will (according to him) live forever; and Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted chat app Signal. “I’m so f*cking bored with VC content,” Solana told Newcomer, which originally reported the show’s existence. “There has to …

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

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OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by the Florida attorney general on Monday, in a first-of-its-kind state litigation effort over ChatGPT’s alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as it has sought to prioritize winning “the AI arms race and amass large fortunes.” “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” said Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.” “Because of Defendants’ misrepresentations about ChatGPT and their careless introduction of ChatGPT to Florida and the world, mass shooters have been aided and abetted in deadly rampages, vulnerable people have been encouraged into suicide, professionals have suffered public humiliation, users have lost critical thinking skills, and minors have become addicted to a tool that feigns human compassion to collect their data with no parental oversight,” the 83-page lawsuit claims. The Florida attorney general’s office launched …

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, saying they put profit over safety

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, saying they put profit over safety

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the company of putting profit over safety, fueling violence and pushing a product it knew could harm users. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI’s market value at unacceptable costs,” the complaint reviewed by NBC News and filed Monday said. Florida is the first state to sue OpenAI and Altman over design and safety. The civil action, seeking penalties and a court order rather than criminal charges, said Uthmeier “seeks to hold Altman personally liable for the harm he has caused Floridians through his reckless and willful conduct as founder and CEO of OpenAI, including his utter disregard for the risk to human life caused by his firms’ conduct.” The action is separate from a criminal investigation into OpenAI that Uthmeier opened in late April, which remains …

The Download: Musk v. Altman, smart glasses for warfare, and Google I/O

The Download: Musk v. Altman, smart glasses for warfare, and Google I/O

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A foundation model’s reputation these days rests largely on its coding capabilities, and for months Google’s coding tools have been outgunned by Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. But the company still shapes the cutting edge in areas such as AI for science. At I/O this week, it will try to prove it can compete on both fronts. I’m going to be at Mountain View this week to see what goes down. Here are three things to keep a close eye on. —Grace Huckins This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things AI. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Monday. Can AI learn to understand the world? As the limits of LLMs become clearer, researchers are developing a new kind of AI designed to understand the physical environment: world models.  Recent developments from Google DeepMind, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, and Yann LeCun’s new startup have pushed these systems to the forefront of AI. At an upcoming virtual event, MIT Technology Review will examine …

Elon Musk dealt blow in lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman | World | News

Elon Musk dealt blow in lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman | World | News

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Elon Musk is the world’s richest man (Image: Getty) A federal jury has tossed out Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman. The nine-person jury unanimously found that Mr Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations. Mr Musk, the world’s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT. After investing $38 million in its first years, Mr Musk accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back. Read more: Elon Musk turns on Reform leader in furious three-word bust-up Read more: World’s richest royal family – worth more than Elon Musk and Bill Gates Elon Musk. (Image: Getty) The nine-person jury found that Mr Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations. The jury had deliberated only two hours. The jury served in an advisory role, but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted …

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

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Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors returned a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, found that any harms that Musk may have suffered came before the deadline for filing his claims under the law. While the trial delved deeply into the melodramatic history of OpenAI and featured testimony from leading figures in Silicon Valley, it ultimately turned on fairly narrow questions of the law. The trial focused on whether and when Altman and the other defendants had made and broken promises to Musk, but his case failed to convince jurors that he had a valid claim. In particular, OpenAI had advanced a statute of limitations defense, which sought to prove that any harms Musk sought to litigate had taken place before 2021. (The specific date varied by the charge: before August 5, 2021 for the first …

The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading

The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading

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3 Chinese AI groups have pulled ahead of US rivals in video generationByteDance and Kuaishou’s models lead in realism and scale. (FT $)+ AI is fueling China’s short-drama boom. (MIT Technology Review)+ While its AI labs are betting big on open source. (MIT Technology Review) 4 Iran says it will charge Big Tech for using undersea internet cablesThe cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz carry vast digital traffic. (CNN)+ Tech bosses met at Uber HQ on Saturday to discuss Iran’s future. (404 Media) 5 Samsung has a “last chance” to stop a massive strike over AIOver 45,000 employees could walk out for 18 days this week. (CNBC) + They want a bigger share of the AI boom. (FT $)+ Samsung and its largest labor union will resume talks on Tuesday. (Reuters $) 6 Old oil and gas wells could become a new source of clean energyUS states plan to convert them into geothermal energy assets. (Wired $)+ A balcony solar boom is coming to the US. (MIT Technology Review) 7 The ChatGPT era has triggered a …

Bill Cassidy; Ebola; Musk vs. Altman; Idaho airshow : NPR

Bill Cassidy; Ebola; Musk vs. Altman; Idaho airshow : NPR

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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana lost his bid for reelection on Saturday. He is one of seven Republican senators who voted to remove President Trump from office after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Cassidy finished last in a three-way primary. His failure to advance further illustrates Trump’s strong influence over the Republican Party. A two-term Republican, Sen. Bill Cassidy lost his reelection bid in Louisiana after voting to convict President Trump after the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Annie Flanagan for NPR hide caption toggle caption Annie Flanagan for NPR 🎧 Cassidy said this campaign should focus on the future rather than the past, but many Republican voters felt that voting to convict Trump was a betrayal, NPR’s Sam Gringlas tells Up First. Cassidy attempted to repair his relationship with Trump supporters while maintaining his independent streak. But …

Sam Altman May Win Against Elon Musk in Court, but Will His Public Image Survive the Trial?

Sam Altman May Win Against Elon Musk in Court, but Will His Public Image Survive the Trial?

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Vicki Ellen Behringer knows how to draw complicated characters. A veteran sketch artist, Behringer has created some of the vivid watercolors to emerge from high-profile trials—Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Holmes, and the Unabomber. So about three weeks into the case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, I had to know what she thought of her latest sitters. She struggled with Musk, she told me after court adjourned one day last week. She said his face lacked the kind of distinctive features that helped to evoke one’s likeness in a sketch. Altman was easier. She homed in on his Tintin-like flick of hair, which I once caught him adjusting in the bathroom mirror during a break in the trial. He’s also got these expressive eyebrows, Behringer told me. They were furrowed throughout his testimony. He looked like he’s always anxious, she said. Some minor relief in Altman’s mien should be in sight. As anyone who deals with anxiety knows, one of its chief triggers is uncertainty. With closing arguments now completed in the trial and the jury …