The OpenAI squad in charge of mitigating the risks of super-intelligent AI has lost nearly half its members, says a former researcher

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking during the company's developer day event.
"It's not been like a coordinated thing. I think it's just people sort of individually giving up," former OpenAI governance researcher Daniel Kokotajlo (not pictured) told Fortune.

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Ikea aims to compete with eBay with launch of secondhand online marketplace

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10 May 2021, Brandenburg, Waltersdorf: The logo of the furnishing company IKEA in the district of Schönefeld in the district of Dahme-Spreewald.
Ikea has launched a marketplace for customers to buy pre-owned items in a new effort to compete with resale sites like eBay, Financial Times reported.

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Elon Musk says he's backing California's controversial AI bill

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Elon Musk speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity.
"This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill," Elon Musk wrote in an X post on Monday.

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The courts could decide this presidential election, and both campaigns are gearing up for an ugly legal fight

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A composite image of Donald Trump (left) and Kamala Harris (right).
Both the Trump and Harris campaigns are gearing up for a nasty legal battle in court over the outcome of this year's election.

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Mark Cuban is asking Elon Musk to post X's algorithm source code

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Mark Cuban attending a basketball game in Boston, Massachusetts; Elon Musk speaking at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.
"Can you post the expected algorithm source code, before you implement them? So users can give feedback?" Mark Cuban wrote in an X post to Elon Musk on Sunday.

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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles

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US-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile getting launched during a live fire exercise at the Chiupeng missile base in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan.
"In a war with Taiwan, we would fire thousands of anti-ship missiles a week, and our stockpiles would run out in days.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

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Pavel Durov
French police arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov as he traveled through a French airport on suspicion of failing to curb criminal activity on his social platform, multiple outlets reported.

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Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show.

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Kamala Harris stands in front of a row of American flags. Donald Trump stands in front of his name in lights.
Kamala Harris, at the DNC, stood in front of a row of American flags. At the RNC, Donald Trump took the stage before a Broadway-style display of his name in lights.

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Former OpenAI researchers warn of 'catastrophic harm' after the company opposes AI safety bill

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Ex-OpenAI researchers warned of "catastrophic harm" in a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the company, led by CEO Sam Altman, opposed SB 1047, a proposed AI safety bill.

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Obama improvised the viral size joke about Trump at the DNC, his speechwriter says

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Barack Obama speaking at the DNC in Chicago; Donald Trump speaking at a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Former President Barack Obama made a suggestive hand gesture while slamming Donald Trump's "weird obsession with crowd sizes" during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

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