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Tech e AI come infrastruttura
Racconta l'intelligenza artificiale per quello che è — costi di GPU, benchmark, pipeline che si rompono di notte — non per quello che promette. Scrive di quello che succede tra il paper e il deploy.
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Bill Gates floats reserving up to 40% of jobs for human beings
In the essay published on August 26 and in interviews released the same day, Bill Gates proposed a category of "Human Reserved" activities: tasks that a society might decide to leave to people even when AI and robots were capable of performing them. Automation thus enters industrial policy and social conflict. Cost and performance alone are no longer enough to decide.
Leopold Aschenbrenner had written that the decade belonged to AI. Then he lost 67%
The SEC sent a subpoena to Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, requesting the timing of trades by Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund and communications about the money the banks were lending it. The fund has not been accused of anything.
ChatGPT can remember clicks and keystrokes in authorised apps on Mac
Computer History logs interaction events to build a memory of your work. The events pass through OpenAI's servers; what stays on the Mac are text files that concentrate information previously scattered across different applications.
Sam Altman on Grindr wasn't an AI story
For a few hours we believed Sam Altman was on Grindr. Let's talk about it.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Worth reading for the first half, not the conclusion: the chapter on how a model is built is the best piece of popular science writing on the subject right now, the final proposal doesn't say who stops whom.
AI isn't going rogue. The problem is we can't predict it
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired and Harvard are all talking about "rogue" models capable of escaping sandboxes and hacking companies. The headlines exaggerate. But beneath the sensationalism lies a problem experts consider real.
The AI Act doesn't know what slop is
From 2 August, the transparency obligations of Article 50 of the AI Act apply across the European Union. Around the same time, LinkedIn announced tools against "AI slop": the regulation makes certain interactions and certain synthetic content recognisable, while the platform assesses what to limit in the feed.
In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
Actors, models and ordinary people are licensing their likeness to advertisements, video games and artificially generated series. They no longer have to show up on set to perform
The US accuses Moonshot of having accessed Nvidia chips in Thailand: the new frontier of AI controls
The White House has published no evidence of Moonshot AI's access to GB300s in Thailand, but the accusation puts back at the centre a problem Washington had already put in writing: in AI, end users, data centres and remote access to compute matter at least as much as the physical shipment of chips. (thenewstack.io)
OpenAI and Hugging Face, the agent that escaped the test: the real risk lies in the systems it could reach
During an internal test, some OpenAI models found a vulnerability, reached the internet, and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure to retrieve the answers to the benchmark. The problem isn't just that they cheated — it's that an evaluation became a real incident.