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Elon Musk says beware of ‘AI going wrong’; Apple paid select engineering bonuses; Bharat Founders Fund launched One Thing Today in Tech
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Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, ranked “artificial intelligence going wrong” as one of the top three “existential threats” to humanity, Insider reports. The European Space Agency is funding a project called Camaliot to conduct scientific experiments on big data, collected from GPS receivers including smartphones. Plus, several Indian founders have banded up to start a pre-seed-stage fund.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, ranked “artificial intelligence going wrong” as one of the top three “existential threats” to humanity, Insider reports.
Musk, the richest man in the world who aspires to build a home for humans on Mars, said he fears religious extremism, a declining birthrate, and artificial intelligence going wrong. The declining birthrate in countries like the US is also a cause for concern, Musk said, adding he didn’t see it turning around, according to Insider.
The European Space Agency is funding a project called Camaliot to build the infrastructure for ingesting large volumes of observations from various kinds of GPS-capable receivers, including mobile phones, according to the project’s website.
With the proliferation of smartphones, wearables and the Internet of Things, observations acquired from such devices will become the next big data source. Therefore, the Camaliot project is laying the groundwork for exploiting this rapidly increasing source of data, according to the website.
Apple paid out special engineering bonuses worth up to $200,000 to retain top talent, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman reports in his popular Power On newsletter. For the second time in three months, Apple is paying out special one-time retention bonuses. Last time, the bonuses went to select engineers in Apple’s virtual and augmented reality and chip engineering departments.
This time they went to some hardware and software engineers. The idea is to keep employees happy at a time of rising inflation, increased recruiting from rivals like Facebook owner Meta Platforms, and a move to get working-at-home staff back into offices, according to Gurman.
Google released a Chrome update for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Friday last that fixes a zero-day vulnerability, Android Police reports. In a Chrome Releases Blog post Google explains that there is one security update in the release, for zero-day exploit CVE-2022-1096, first reported to the company by an anonymous tip on March 23.
This particular vulnerability is a weakness in Chrome's JavaScript engine that can be used by hackers to inject their code into your browser. Google has said hackers have already exploited this weakness, according to Android Police.
Founders of Meesho, Rivigo, Lead School, NoBroker, and Cars24 are among the entrepreneurs and senior executives at several startups in India who have come together to launch Bharat Founders Fund, which will invest in pre-seed-stage ventures, Economic Times reports.
Some 65 founders are investing through the fund, which has made 20 investments so far. The fund will typically invest $100,000 to $200,000 in the pre-seed stage, including in entrepreneurs who’ve just started out with an idea, according to ET.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, ranked “artificial intelligence going wrong” as one of the top three “existential threats” to humanity, Insider reports. The European Space Agency is funding a project called Camaliot to conduct scientific experiments on big data, collected from GPS receivers including smartphones. Plus, several Indian founders have banded up to start a pre-seed-stage fund.
Notes:
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, ranked “artificial intelligence going wrong” as one of the top three “existential threats” to humanity, Insider reports.
Musk, the richest man in the world who aspires to build a home for humans on Mars, said he fears religious extremism, a declining birthrate, and artificial intelligence going wrong. The declining birthrate in countries like the US is also a cause for concern, Musk said, adding he didn’t see it turning around, according to Insider.
The European Space Agency is funding a project called Camaliot to build the infrastructure for ingesting large volumes of observations from various kinds of GPS-capable receivers, including mobile phones, according to the project’s website.
With the proliferation of smartphones, wearables and the Internet of Things, observations acquired from such devices will become the next big data source. Therefore, the Camaliot project is laying the groundwork for exploiting this rapidly increasing source of data, according to the website.
Apple paid out special engineering bonuses worth up to $200,000 to retain top talent, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman reports in his popular Power On newsletter. For the second time in three months, Apple is paying out special one-time retention bonuses. Last time, the bonuses went to select engineers in Apple’s virtual and augmented reality and chip engineering departments.
This time they went to some hardware and software engineers. The idea is to keep employees happy at a time of rising inflation, increased recruiting from rivals like Facebook owner Meta Platforms, and a move to get working-at-home staff back into offices, according to Gurman.
Google released a Chrome update for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Friday last that fixes a zero-day vulnerability, Android Police reports. In a Chrome Releases Blog post Google explains that there is one security update in the release, for zero-day exploit CVE-2022-1096, first reported to the company by an anonymous tip on March 23.
This particular vulnerability is a weakness in Chrome's JavaScript engine that can be used by hackers to inject their code into your browser. Google has said hackers have already exploited this weakness, according to Android Police.
Founders of Meesho, Rivigo, Lead School, NoBroker, and Cars24 are among the entrepreneurs and senior executives at several startups in India who have come together to launch Bharat Founders Fund, which will invest in pre-seed-stage ventures, Economic Times reports.
Some 65 founders are investing through the fund, which has made 20 investments so far. The fund will typically invest $100,000 to $200,000 in the pre-seed stage, including in entrepreneurs who’ve just started out with an idea, according to ET.
Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds
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