Scoop: @OpenAI has hired about 1K contractors over the past six months around the world, and about 400 of them are programmers who are teaching its models, in granular detail, how to code. w/@lmatsakis
Reed Albergotti
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Reed Albergotti
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Tech editor @semafor. co-author of Wheelmen, retired hockey player, Minnesotan. I like riding bikes. Signal: Reed.03 semafor.com/vertical/tech
- Craig Federighi, Apple's own senior vice president of software engineering, just swore under oath that security on Mac computers is unacceptably poor and regularly exploited by malware. Quite surprising to hear coming from one of Apple's own top officials.
- Scoop: Apple has dropped its lawsuit against Corellium, which was scheduled to go to trial and was being closely watched by a security industry that feared it would have a chilling effect on research tools used to make software safer.
- Facebook knowingly permitted false information to remain to be published on its site, for fear of a backlash from conservatives.
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- I spoke with Sundar amid a week of crazy news for Google. I think the company is more interesting than ever.
- Thread: 1/12 The big scoop in this article with @nakashimae is we finally know all the details on how the FBI unlocked the iPhone belonging to a terrorist in the San Bernardino attacks in 2016. But it’s even more interesting
- Replying to @SaraGonzalesTXI hope these heroes are recognized and the identity of the shooter is never known
- Please read this article about Cher Scarlett, who is leading a worker uprising from inside Apple. It’s a story about a fascinating and very resilient person, but it’s also about the changes happening right now in tech and the headwinds against the change
- Here’s the new Microsoft-OpenAI dynamic as best I can tell. Microsoft has exclusive rights to use OpenAI models. OpenAI can’t train any new models without Microsoft. OpenAI could go to Amazon or Google and ask them to train new models, but they’d get sued by Microsoft and they ..
- This just in: @CorelliumHQ wins its copyright battle against Apple, a pretty surprising defeat in what was a very David v Goliath battle. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
- Scoop: Microsoft has an internal Minecraft demo where, instead of manually mining/building, etc., you can describe your vision to an AI (like a ChatGPT prompt) and watch your creation come to life. More details here.
- Elon Musk didn't adhere to SEC rules when he bought Twitter. On paper, that made him $156 million. He's unlikely to face any consequences because the rules aren't that big of a deal for someone who can afford to pay a six-figure fine.
- Scoop: Sundar Pichai addressed the company tonight about the Gemini debacle, calling the responses unacceptable and vowing structural changes to how the company rolls out future products. Full story here:
