The filing marks an escalation in Apple's legal battle with OpenAI, as it suggests Apple has uncovered new evidence that the misconduct goes beyond the former employees named in the original complaint. "For example, another former Apple employee seems to have met with Mr. Liu and Ms. Peng in advance of Ms. Peng's interview at OpenAI and discussed with them during that meeting Apple proprietary information relating to unannounced products," the filing states. "Yet another former Apple employee took screenshots of confidential Apple documents relating to an unannounced Apple product before an interview at OpenAI."
"And, after Apple filed its complaint, multiple former Apple employees now working at OpenAI reached out to discuss returning Apple-issued work devices they kept when they left Apple," Apple claims, suggesting there were more who were possibly involved with the scheme. Apple is pushing the court to allow for expedited discovery because it believes it has good cause to suspect that there are others involved in the theft of its intellectual property. The company noted that its motion for a preliminary injunction is also pending. Apple's request for a preliminary injunction is "both based on false information and completely unnecessary because we do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets," said OpenAI in a blog post.
"We're much more interested in building innovative products and technologies that push the frontier," OpenAI's statement reads.
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The FCC could still modify or shelve the restriction, the sources stressed, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. [...] A U.S. ban on new models of Chinese data center devices would likely hit China's Zhongji Innolight, one of the biggest global sellers of transceivers, which was added to the Pentagon's list of alleged Chinese military-backed companies in June. The list can be a harbinger of tougher action. A ban could also raise costs for American cloud firms such as Amazon Web Services, as it may force them to transition to other producers such as U.S.-based Coherent and Lumentum.
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Ja wat sta je nou meewarig te knikken lamlul, natuurlijk kun je een leuke vakantie hebben zonder Nederland te verlaten, weekje op de fiets door Noord-Holland (schitterend), getuige geweest van een soort razzia op illegale naaktlopers op het strand bij Callantsoog, woedende blootboomers die het vertikten iets aan te trekken en de meneer van de handhaving onvermoeibaar bleven uitfoeteren, geef ze eens ongelijk, wanneer zijn we zo godvergeten preuts geworden in dit land, laat die mensen lekker flaneren joh. Daarna zeven dagen op de leukste camping ter wereld, eveneens gelegen in Noord-Holland, nauwelijks gezopen en eigenlijk ook nauwelijks gelezen, wat kan het schelen, als vader ben je per definitie een publieksspeler, kinderen blij, jij blij, laatste weekje uitgeweken naar een huisje, bossig Gelderland, ja wat denk je, veel bomen, dat zei de jongste ook, papa, ik heb nog nooit zoveel bomen gezien. Dat klinkt een beetje als een saai burgermansbestaan hè, nou, wacht maar tot je hoort wat uw scribent van dienst al die tijd bezig alsook wakker hield. De vraag die langskwam, de verbijstering, het ongeloof, de walging toen een groot aantal respondenten op de camping koos voor nooit meer gesmolten, gevaarlijke gekken, raclette, kaasfondue en quattro formaggi geofferd op het altaar van gemakzucht, ingeruild voor voor snelgesmeerde ochtendbammetjes. Dat is toch helemaal compleet gestoord krankzinnig. Toch? TOCH??!!
Max Miller says he has ‘nothing to hide’ amid domestic abuse allegations made against him by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, daughter of Republican Ohio senator Bernie Moreno
The White House has called an emergency summit of artificial intelligence business leaders on Tuesday to finalize details of a voluntary compliance system for safety breaches, following reports that two major AI tools had breached their digital containment and hacked external computer systems.
Anthropic reported last week that models of its Claude tool successfully hacked into the infrastructure of three separate companies during red-teaming tests by exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. Anthropic said an external evaluation partner mistakenly granted the testing agent unfiltered internet access.
Continue reading...First ODI of series will take place in Bready on Wednesday
England refuse to face Afghanistan due to Taliban regime
Ireland’s decision to stage a full one-day international series for their men’s team against Afghanistan this summer could cost them lucrative future fixtures against England.
The England and Wales Cricket Board is understood to be unhappy about the series, which starts on Wednesday, taking place as England refuse to play Afghanistan outside International Cricket Council global events because of what the ECB chair, Richard Thompson, has described as the “gender apartheid” of the Taliban regime.
Continue reading...Mount Vernon official is accused of driving getaway car after son allegedly opened fire outside Bronx court
A New York state police department fired its deputy commissioner on Tuesday after she allegedly acted as a getaway driver for her son in what is being investigated as an attempted murder.
The city of Mount Vernon said in an Instagram post that it had terminated Jennifer Lackard, deputy police commissioner for safety, for conduct “unrelated to her duties”.
Continue reading...The company will release its second quarter earnings on Tuesday, giving investors a look at its potential profit
For the first time since SpaceX went public, the world will get a first-hand look into the trillion-dollar corporation’s financials. The Elon Musk-run business will report its second quarter earnings on Tuesday, while nervous investors look to gain more insight into the rocket ship company’s potential for profit.
SpaceX had a blockbuster initial public offering in June with the largest-ever stock market debut in history. The IPO transformed SpaceX into a $2tn company and briefly crowned Musk the world’s first trillionaire. But since then, the company’s stock has plummeted by 24%, erasing nearly $500bn in market cap.
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They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected.
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I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn1 relative to how much time I actually spend mowing lawns (~6-7 hours per year). And so I was completely fascinated by The Pudding’s latest post on optimal lawn mowing paths and “why some people mow a lawn better than others”.
They built several digital lawns for people to mow and recorded all of their moves, how often they paused at certain times, and who mowed an optimal path.
Solving the lawn mowing problem is formally called Coverage Path Planning, and is related to one of the most famous path planning problems in computer science: The Traveling Salesman Problem.
Humans turn out to be pretty good mowers, especially those who take their time and have played some video games (including, one would assume, Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Mr. Do!, and any other game where you need to worry about dead-ends).
Sarah, one of the best mowers, spent her attention unevenly on purpose. She had a theory about why.
“The bigger spaces have more cognitive load for you to figure out what the best path is. Whereas the smaller spaces…there are fewer decisions to make.”
She planned the tight, trap-prone sections carefully and winged it on the open ones.
So it’s not about thinking more or faster, but when thinking happens. That’s what a good heuristic does: it spends your attention on the decisions that matter and nothing on the ones that don’t.
The piece is interactive so you get to try your hand at digital mowing as well.
My actual lawn is very irregularly shaped with a few dead-ends & choke points and an added wrinkle that I can’t blow grass clippings into the flower beds (so I can only go one-way the “wrong way” in those areas). So every time I mow, I’m trying to figure out the optimal path so I don’t end up backtracking too much. I probably end up saving about 45 seconds of actual time but boy is it fun from an intellectual standpoint.
See my post on Tidying Up from more than 20 years ago. ↩
Tags: infoviz · science · The Pudding
You can try to find the buried diorama, or just buy his Toilet Wine. There are rats.
tldw; It's probably the result of YouTube's A.I. prompting different creators with the same subject, thumbnail style, and even timing of the uploads.
This “Hendrix Fire Letterpress” is an iteration of a Jimi Hendrix portrait I made but never released outside of inclusion in my “50 Shades of Black” boxset. I’ve been a fan of Jimi Hendrix since late high school. After what I call my “punk rock orthodoxy” phase waned, I was open to looking back to older music that had some of the same attitude and expression as punk. Hendrix stood out to me as being soulful and cool, but also intense and feral. The debut Hendrix album, Are You Experienced, is a masterpiece all the way through, and though it opens with the banger “Purple Haze,” I really love the groove and vocal swagger of the song “Fire.” To me, “Fire” has a heavier funk feel, almost like James Brown with more guitar power. Most people focus on Jimi’s guitar prowess, but I think he was a great vocalist and songwriter with his guitar brilliance, just adding flair to superb songs. I made several homemade Hendrix shirts when I was in high school and college just to have one for myself. One of the first “art” prints I ever made was a tribute to John Van Hamersveld’s Pinnacle Hendrix poster from 1968. I saw Hendrix as a cultural icon to reference and honor, even as I subverted his image. This one, however, is a pure, sincere tribute!
-Shepard
PRINT DETAILS: Hendrix Fire Letterpress. 13″ H x 10″ W. Letterpress on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 450. Obey publishing chop in lower left corner. Comes with a Digital Certificate of Authenticity provided by Verisart. $65. Available on Thursday, August 6th @ 10 AM PDT at https://store.obeygiant.com. Max order: 1 per customer/household. International customers are responsible for any applicable import duties, taxes, and customs fees due upon delivery, except for UK orders under $160 USD and EU orders.
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