Going live in a few on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the OpenAI breach of Hugging Face
Ina Fried
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Chief Technology Correspondent at Axios. Huge fan of the sportsball. Also Lego. She/her Aiplus.Axios.com
Going live shortly on ABC News live with @giobenitez.com to talk about owning your likeness in an age of AI.
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the dispute between @anthropic.com and the Department of War.
New @axios from Milan Olympics: IOC disqualifies Ukrainian athlete over helmet honoring war dead
New from @axios: Swedish skier Elis Lundholm becomes the first transgender Winter Olympian. Lundholm who uses male pronouns and was assigned female at birth competes in women’s moguls.
New @axios with @ashleyrgold.bsky.social Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE even as they and their companies remain silent.
About to go live from Davos on @npr.org Here & Now talking about ads in ChatGPT
New @axios.com: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Health, letting users bring in data from electronic health records, apple health and myfitnesspal.
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
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Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the pitfalls of giving human characteristics to AI chatbots.
Scoop: Mattel's collaboration with @OpenAI won't emerge this year.
Exclusive: OpenAI expects models will soon hit the “high” level of cybersecurity risk by AI can act longer autonomously.
Former slack CEO Denise Dresser joining OpenAI as chief revenue officer openai.com/index/openai...
OpenAI appoints Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer
Expanding our leadership to scale the fastest-growing business platform in history.
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Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about how two things can be true 1) there is an AI bubble 2) AI is going to be a transformational moment perhaps bigger than the internet or smartphones
Thinking about this @inafried.bsky.social @danprimack.bsky.social piece as Gemini takes the top spot on the App Store…
Google, the sleeping AI giant, awakens
Google is proving that it hasn't lost its AI edge.
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New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
The move is the latest in a series of deals that sees all the big players partnering with one another.
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Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about Google’s AI resurgence and its potential role as Apple looks to revamp Siri.
AI and automation are transforming the future of work faster than ever. @axios.com chief technology correspondent @inafried.bsky.social explains how soon we’ll feel the impact.
We have tech companies (Amazon, Salesforce, Chegg, Meta....) cutting thousands of jobs because AI is getting more efficient. We also now have THREE AI-related tech companies ($NVDA, $MSFT, $AAPL) worth $4 trillion dollars each.
New @axios: @sama says OpenAI’s current infrastructure commitments total about $1.4 trillion. Eventually hopes to be cranking out a gigawatt per week at a cost of $20 billion per week.
OpenAI's goal: $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spending
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.
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Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about how AI deepfakes are today's reality rather than something to worry about in the future.
New @axios.com : Sal Khan to become the public face of TED Conference
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about two of the latest emerging risks in AI - the ability of systems to resist shutdown and systems that are persuasive enough to get people to change their core beliefs.
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
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Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the latest research on why AI models hallucinate.
Scoop: Sierra is near a $350 million funding round that values Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor’s Ai agent startup at $10 billion.
Going live shortly on @npr.org Here & Now to talk about the AI features on the new Google Pixel phones and what that all means for Apple ahead of the iPhone launch.