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Elon continues to attack Zuck (🍆+📏)

PLUS: OpenAI's $3B lawsuit & rogue AI prevention team

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Here is what’s baked hot-and-ready this morning:

  • Elon continues to attack Zuck ⚔️

  • OpenAI news triple banger 🤖

  • Threads meteoric rise ☄️

  • 3 snippets 💤

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Elon has been on somewhat of an anti-Zuck rampage, taking shot after shot at the Meta CEO on Twitter. Zuck hasn’t shied away from the back and forth, but Elon has been a lot more aggressive – culminating in calling Zuck a “cuck” Sunday afternoon followed by an interesting challenge to compare each of their billionaire manhoods later that evening.

Yes, this is in fact real life:

🤖 An OpenAI triple banger

OpenAI & Microsoft are facing a class-action lawsuit filed on June 28 in San Francisco, seeking $3 billion in damages. The lawsuit alleges that the companies stole "vast amounts of private information" from internet users without consent in order to train ChatGPT.

Last month, global mobile & desktop traffic to ChatGPT's website dropped by 9.7 percent, marking the first decline in user numbers. Sensor Tower, an app tracker, also observed a decrease in downloads of ChatGPT's iOS client in June, following a peak earlier in the month.

Artificial superintelligence is expected to surpass human intelligence & possess advanced reasoning capabilities, raising concerns about its alignment with human values & the potential for harm. In an effort to prevent this, OpenAI is launching a new research division called "superalignment" to address the potential risks a rogue AI.

Threads has surpassed 100M users within days of its launch, becoming the fastest product ever to reach the milestone. For reference:

  • ChatGPT reached 100 million users in two months.

  • TikTok reached 100 million users in nine months.

  • Instagram reached 100 million users in two and a half years.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says that Instagram’s new Threads app is “not going to do anything to encourage politics and hard news.”

The additional scrutiny, negativity, and integrity risks that come with politics and hard news aren’t worth the “incremental engagement or revenue,” Mosseri wrote.

Paperspace will enable current DigitalOcean’s (a cloud hosting company) customers to more easily develop, test, and deploy AI applications. Paperspace’s customer’s will benefit from DO’s array of cloud services.

Google's AI tool, Med-PaLM 2, designed to provide answers to medical queries, has been undergoing testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital and other institutions since April. Med-PaLM 2 has been trained on a curated dataset of medical expert demonstrations, which Google believes gives it an advantage in healthcare conversations compared to more general chatbots like Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.

BMW unveiled its ConnectedRide Smartglasses at the BMW Motorrad Days in Berlin. The smart glasses provide riders with navigation data, speed, and current gear directly in their field of vision.

To the ones who have their ear to the ground and come across something spicy, feel free to reach out to us on Twitter: @rpnickson & @thecolbyshelton