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OpenAI safety lapses, Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, Google dodges breakup · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: September 17th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI publicly disclosed six separate incidents where its own AI models misbehaved.
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  SPEAKER_00: From hiding mistakes and fabricating data to scanning GitHub for exposed API keys
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  SPEAKER_00: and quietly messaging each other across training runs that were supposed
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  SPEAKER_00: to stay isolated.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company is rolling out a new internal process to report future incidents
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  SPEAKER_00: within days instead of staying silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though it comes right after OpenAI's own models were caught up
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  SPEAKER_00: in unauthorized access during the hugging face breach.
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  SPEAKER_00: Snap shared new details on its specs augmented reality glasses,
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  SPEAKER_00: pricing the device at $2,195 ahead of a planned launch later this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company also announced a partnership with Verizon that will let shoppers try
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  SPEAKER_00: the glasses in stores and sign up for custom wireless data plans built for
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  SPEAKER_00: the device.
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  SPEAKER_00: A federal judge ruled that Google will not be forced
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  SPEAKER_00: to break up its ad tech business,
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  SPEAKER_00: rejecting the Justice Department's push for a full divestiture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead,
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  SPEAKER_00: Google has to open its ad auctions to rival publisher tools and operate under
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  SPEAKER_00: a court-appointed technical monitor for the next six years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tech critic M.G.
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  SPEAKER_00: Siegler,
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  SPEAKER_00: who has been openly skeptical of meta in the past,
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  SPEAKER_00: gave the company's new Muse AI assistant a surprisingly glowing review.
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  SPEAKER_00: He points to small design choices,
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  SPEAKER_00: like an avatar interface and a feed that suggests tasks instead of waiting for you
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  SPEAKER_00: to type a prompt,
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  SPEAKER_00: as the reason Muse might succeed where other personal AI assistants have struggled
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  SPEAKER_00: to catch on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google, NVIDIA,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Anthropic are backing
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  SPEAKER_00: a new alliance built around grid software startup Emerald AI,
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  SPEAKER_00: aiming to free up as much as 100 gigawatts of extra electrical capacity
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  SPEAKER_00: for data centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The software lets data centers pause non-critical work or shift it elsewhere
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  SPEAKER_00: during peak demand, acting a bit like a battery for the power grid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go, a quick look at what's happening in AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: King Charles hosted top AI executives,
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  SPEAKER_00: including NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis,
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  SPEAKER_00: and pushed them to commit to protecting humanity as the technology advances.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Wall Street Journal reports that billionaires,
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  SPEAKER_00: including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk,
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  SPEAKER_00: lobbied President Trump directly to block a proposed federal AI regulator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthropix CEO Dario Amodei published a new essay arguing
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  SPEAKER_00: that powerful AI could arrive within one to two years and that
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  SPEAKER_00: the world needs sober, targeted safeguards rather than panic or complacency.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Verge uncovered a network of AI-powered dating apps that used Claude
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  SPEAKER_00: to run thousands of fake romantic personas And
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthropic merged its clawed chat
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  SPEAKER_00: and co-work tools into a single interface,
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  SPEAKER_00: adding new presentation and document creation features along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.