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The Tech Desk
flipped into The Age of AI
21 hours ago
Will Sam Altman always win the OpenAI board fight in an AI agent simulation?
VentureBeat - Dean Takahashi
A year ago today, Sam Altman returned to OpenAI after being fired just five days earlier. What really happened in the boardroom? Fable, a game and AI simulation company, built its AI Sim Francisco “war game” to find out why the behind closed doors board fight turned out the way it did. It feels a …
The Tech Desk
flipped into The Age of AI
11 hours ago
Marissa Mayer just laid out a possible business model for ad-supported AI chatbots
TechCrunch - Matt Rosoff
Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo’s CEO. Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like share …
The Tech Desk
flipped into The Age of AI
11 hours ago
AI Has Enshittified America's Advanced Stealth Fighter
Gizmodo - Matthew Gault
A new report on the F-35 revealed how maintenance crews have to constantly fight its terrible AI systems to get anything done. Artificial Intelligence …
The Tech Desk
flipped into Cybersecurity and Data Hacks
13 hours ago
Meta says it’s taken down 2 million accounts linked to ‘pig butchering’ scams
Engadget - Karissa Bell
The company was recently tipped off by OpenAI about “a newly stood up scam compound in Cambodia.” Meta is making progress in its fight against pig butchering scams. In an update, the company said it has taken down more than 2 million accounts associated with such scams this year and that its effort …
The Tech Desk
flipped into Electric Vehicles
13 hours ago
Study Finds Tesla Has Higher Rate of Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Car
futurism.com - Frank Landymore
Death Drive Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents on the road out of every other car brand in the US, according to new research. The study, …
The Tech Desk
flipped into Cybersecurity and Data Hacks
16 hours ago
Why digital identity is the ultimate battleground in cybersecurity
techradar.com - By Stephen McDermid
We’ve been living with widely-available generative AI tools for nearly two years now, so the time is right to ask the question – what effect is it …