Journals

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on managing deals with publishers, launching the GPT Store, OpenAI’s corporate structure, Sam Altman’s departure, and more  —  The AI startup’s top dealmaker is trying to convince publishers it will… Read More »Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on managing deals with publishers, launching the GPT Store, OpenAI’s corporate structure, Sam Altman’s departure, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

David W. Chen / New York Times: As deepfakes warp elections overseas, US state legislators race to enact laws, with varying penalties, requiring disclosure of the use of AI in political ads  —  Sophisticated political deepfakes have warped elections overseas. … Read More »As deepfakes warp elections overseas, US state legislators race to enact laws, with varying penalties, requiring disclosure of the use of AI in political ads (David W. Chen/New York Times)

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to publish “key tests” that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify risks  —  Ministers keep threat of future curbs but persist… Read More »Sources: the UK plans to publish “key tests” that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify risks (Financial Times)

Tom Coates / plasticbag.org: Notes on Meta’s plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith  —  This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I… Read More »Notes on Meta’s plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith (Tom Coates/plasticbag.org)

Forbes: How Menlo Ventures is using a special purpose vehicle to lead Anthropic’s unusual $750M fundraise, helping, in part, to price bets by Amazon and Google  —  The startup’s new round led by Menlo Ventures surprised some industry insiders due… Read More »How Menlo Ventures is using a special purpose vehicle to lead Anthropic’s unusual $750M fundraise, helping, in part, to price bets by Amazon and Google (Forbes)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google plans to allow more real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws  —  Google announced today that the company plans to support more… Read More »Google plans to allow more real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Microsoft now lets EU customers store and process data within the bloc on Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, following AWS and Oracle  —  Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of… Read More »Microsoft now lets EU customers store and process data within the bloc on Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, following AWS and Oracle (Aggi Cantrill/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product  —  – Startup launched ChatGPT Enterprise barely four months ago  — Product… Read More »OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Casey Newton / Platformer: Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn’t believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material  —  We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it… Read More »Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn’t believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Reuters: Sources: PE firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to buy DocuSign but may partner to clinch a deal; an outcome is expected in the coming weeks  —  Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to… Read More »Sources: PE firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to buy DocuSign but may partner to clinch a deal; an outcome is expected in the coming weeks (Reuters)