David Sacks received financial conflict of interest waivers to join the White House. Those waivers, are meant to attract outside experts to work for the government temporarily, but the job comes with time limits. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) are now asking if Sacks has overstayed his welcome.
A weekly show called PolitStacker has been airing on Zvezda, a station owned by Russia’s Ministry of Defense, which it claims is primarily AI-generated. Supposedly topics for the show are picked by AI, the host is an AI avatar, and there’s awful deepfake clips of politicians singing... for reasons.
According to Business Insider at least 500 data annotators at xAI were abruptly let go on Friday afternoon. The company told workers in an email that it was part of a shift away from general trainers, and that it would be expanding its team of specialist tutors by 10-fold.
Multiple emails viewed by Business Insider read:
“After a thorough review of our Human Data efforts, we’ve decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles. This strategic pivot will take effect immediately... As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude.”
OpenAI and the Mets are partnering on a bizarre promotion involving a custom pin “powered by ChatGPT”, an AI-generated Citi Field guide and custom portraits from a ChatGPT photo booth. Hey, maybe GPT-4o will hallucinate the Mets winning a game and let fans dream for a bit.
