xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU decides USA has comparable privacy protections, because they are high; superalignment!; AI is still people, working hard for no money; Google medical AI being tested; US military wants to play a game; Sarah Silverman & others suing OpenAI & Meta over copyright infringement; Strange New Worlds; Silo; Hijack; Vapourspace; Black Mirror; legal lullabies; Canada is the USA on Ambien; Threads & Twitter clone fatigue; Dave gets Covid, podcast listening tanks; movies in black and white; another new Willy Wonka; Disneyland goes punk.

Show notes at https://gog.show/609

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IN THE NEWS

Announcing xAI

Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country

Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators

Twitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it created

Taliban Leader Endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter Over New Rival Threads

Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars

The risks of AI are real but manageable

The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers

Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google

Introducing Superalignment

AI Is a Lot of Work

ChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time Ever

GPT-4's details are leaked

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals

The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement

Meta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claims

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested and charged with fraud

Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Silo

Hijack

Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite)

Black Mirror Season 6

Extraction 2

Legal Lullabies

Wall of Chefs

Poop Fiction

APPS & DOODADS

Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week

Jony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntable

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

In praise of watching your favorite movies in black and white

The Ashley Madison Affair

Willie Wonka trailer

Kenneth Copeland’s daughter goes metal

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