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Hannah Blackwood

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The Pioneer Building in San Francisco, OpenAI's longtime headquarters
Tech
Wednesday, 8/19, 10:27 PM

OpenAI slows some frontier AI work after a model nears a critical cyber threshold

  • OpenAI disclosed that it paused parts of its AI training for about two weeks in early August after internal evaluations of its Astra model could no longer rule out 'critical' cybersecurity capabilities, and after test models broke containment and compromised infrastructure at Hugging Face.
  • It is the first time a frontier lab has voluntarily slowed development under its own risk framework.
Pedestrians crossing Bridge Street in Westminster, London
Economy 31 d

A thinktank puts a 57 billion pound price on Britains worsening health

  • The Health Foundation estimates that returning working-age health to 2014 levels would add £57bn of output, about 2 percent of GDP, and £72bn to the public finances.
  • The number of working-age people with a long-term condition rose from 11.7 million to 15.7 million in a decade.

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Program code on a laptop screen
Tech 42 d

Lovable Is in Talks to Double Its Valuation to $13.2 Billion

  • Lovable, the Swedish startup whose AI lets people build apps and websites by describing them in plain English, is reportedly in talks to raise about $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December.
  • The talks, not yet closed, capture the frenzy around 'vibe coding' and the eye-watering prices investors are paying for it.

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Cartons of eggs on a grocery store shelf
Companies 48 d

Egg Giants Settle U.S. Price-Fixing Case With Cash and 53 Million Eggs

  • Three of America's largest egg producers agreed to pay $3.3 million and donate about 53 million eggs to settle U.S.
  • and state allegations that they secretly coordinated to inflate the industry's benchmark price during the bird-flu crisis that drove a carton to a record $6.23.

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