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Zuckerberg would rather «misspend a couple of hundred billion» than lose out on AI race

Zuckerberg would rather misplace hundreds of billions of dollars than lose out in the AI race. — The Meta CEO is more worried about losing out than some failed investments, even in the billions. (Picture: screenshot, Access podcast)

Mark Zuckerberg made the statement on the Access podcast, claiming the risk was «probably in not being aggressive enough.»

— That’s going to be very unfortunate obviously. But I would say the risk is higher on the other side, he said.

A $600 billion bet
Getting it right on «superintelligence,» or artificial general intelligence, is a clear priority for the Meta CEO, and he has already promised $600 billion of total investment in the technology until 2028.

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The news in short for Friday

Human costs pale in comparison to infrastructure, Zuckerberg says. — Zuckerberg sits down with The Information to explain his Superintelligence spending. (Picture: Screenshot)

Executive order coming on «Woke AI»
The US President is planning a new Executive Order regarding balance in AI models. They are going to have to incorporate more right-wing ideology in order to remain in contention for government contracts.
The order would «dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models.» No news yet on who will be the arbiter of what is «neutral,» but we can guess, right?
More on The Wall Street Journal, discussion on r/singularity

Anthropic copyright case moves to class action
While Anthropic’s use of purchased books in training was ruled «fair use» by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in late june, their archive of 7 million pirated books was not.
In this phase of the trial, Alsup has okayed it proceeding as a class action suit, on behalf of all pirated authors.
At a maximum penalty of $150,000 for each infringement, that could total a competely debilitating bill if Anthropic is found guilty, and greatly impact the AI industry.
More at Reuters.

Perplexity gets huge India boost
The AI search engine has sealed a deal to give 360 million customers of the Airtel telco their Perplexity Pro service for free. Airtel is the second largest telecoms operator in India. The trial lasts a year and comes with no strings attached, and offers access to ChatGPT models along with Claude Sonnet and Opus 4. It would normally cost $200 per year.
Previously, Google has offered Gemini for free for all students in India, as everyone is trying to capture the enormous market.
More at India Dispatch, TechCrunch, and a press release by Airtel.

Zuckerberg explains «Superintelligence» hires
The Meta CEO just announced a 5GW data center with even more to be built, some the size of Manhattan, in a push worth «hundreds of billions.» In a recent interview with The Information, he explained his reasoning on his expensive AI hires — by saying infrastructure investments pale in comparison to human costs. And, he says, his new hires «want the fewest number of people reporting to them — and the most GPUs.»
See the interview here (25 minutes), and Business Insider on talent motivations.

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence, now going for execs

Meta's superintelligence seems to be growing, amid reports of wild cash offers for talent. — Zuckerberg, caricatured here, is going all in on his new superintelligence team at Meta. (Picture: Tim Reckmann, CC BY 2.0)

UPDATED. OpenAI pioneer Sutskever started the company a year ago, after leaving OpenAI during the CEO and boardroom scuffle, and it was valued at $32 billion during a recent funding round, reports CNBC.

They rebuffed Meta’s buyout offer, CNBC writes, claiming information from anonymous sources close to the transaction.

Now, Meta has turned their eyes to recruiting the co-founder of Safe Superintelligence and the previous AI chief at Apple, Daniel Gross, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, who run an AI venture fund together— which Meta would hold a stake in as part of the deal.

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Zuckerberg: Vil tape “betydelig” på metaverset på kort sikt

Meta-sjefen Mark Zuckerberg vil investere mye penger i metaverset sitt, men regner ikke med å tjene penger på det før i 2030.

Nå sier Zuckerberg at de vil tape en “betydelig” sum penger på å bygge det opp i løpet av de neste tre til fem årene, skriver Bloomberg.

Han er derimot mer positiv om fremtiden på lang sikt.

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Saksøker Zuckerberg – personlig

Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg kan holdes personlig ansvarlig for lekkasjen av titalls millioner av brukerdetaljer, mener statsadvokat.

Anklagen fra delstatsadvokaten i Washington, DC, påstår at Facebook-sjefen visste om lekkasjen av private detaljer fra over 50 millioner brukere til Cambridge Analytica i 2016.

Dette selskapet la ut en personlighetstest på Facebook og samlet inn personlig informasjon, sammen med psykologiske profiler fra testen, fra opp til 87 millioner brukere.

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