HeyJaredRichard Lawler
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Spotify is down — but your songs might still be playing. (opens the original)
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There are a lot of complaints about a Spotify outage on Downdetector, and when we checked ourselves, cached playlists seem to work just fine, but logging in fresh or trying to stream new music and playlists popped up error messages pointing us to try songs stored offline. The @SpotifyCares support account has confirmed developers are looking into the problems, but there’s no word on when service might be fully restored.
OpenAI didn’t notice its AI bots trying to hack the Education Department’s website. (opens the original)
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On Friday, OpenAI said its “misaligned models” review after the Hugging Face hack would take months, but has mostly found mundane research activity. Then it mentioned 53 incidents of the bots uploading “user-provided” images (anonymized content from personal accounts that haven’t opted out or organizations that opt in) to image-hosting sites. Now the New York Times confirms that other unusual behavior found includes pulling public data from the Census Bureau and the SEC, while with the Education
The White House wants you to know it was the #1 News app in the App Store. (opens the original)
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That revamped Trump admin app (now offering access to Trump TV) apparently bounced up to the top of the News list this week. You might think that securing access to the Strait of Hormuz or really anything else would be the federal government’s focus, but hey, it had the number one app in a category, and as David Pierce wrote in February, the very best thing about that is “being able to tell people you were number one.” The app has since slipped to #2 in news behind X, and to #96 overall.
Bill Gates says regulate AI, because it’s powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. (opens the original)
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NBC News released this clip from a Meet the Press interview with Gates that will air on Sunday, where he said, “No one thinks self-regulation is enough” around AI. Saying that AI is “certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” he suggested, “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like… And that has to be a required thing. And it will be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but
Another tech worker has resigned over concerns that “AI is already progressing too fast.” (opens the original)
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Robert O’Callahan is quitting his work on AI chips for Google Deepmind, saying “…my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much cheaper and lower-latency, and I don’t think that’s good for people right now.” While he says it’s not related to recent AI warnings and resignations, he listed some concerns: However, I am not convinced the chance of ASI doom is 100%. Rather, I think the risk is real but uncertain… I’m also very concerned about other AI-related issues: cognitive surrender, AI-induced psy
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