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Top AI leaders testify before Congress over risks, FTC finalizing Amazon lawsuit

Leading AI voices Dario Amodei, Stuart Russell, and Yoshua Bengio testified before Congress on Tuesday, explaining the real-world risks of AI advancement - Link

Politico sources: the FTC is finalizing an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that it plans to file in federal court; the agency will target Amazon's rules around third-party sellers and Prime - Link

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic formed a group called the Frontier Model Forum to “research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it” - Link

The Information sources: Apple and Goldman Sachs have had a falling out over their Apple Card partnership, despite Apple Card having ~10M users - Link

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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria joins Jason to discuss recent tech trends (10:58), the move towards remote work (17:58), his strategy for building winning teams (37:17), and much more! - Link

Reuters sources: In a failed attempt to settle an EU antitrust investigation, Meta offered to curb the use of competitors' ad data on Facebook Marketplace - Link

OpenAI has shut down its "AI Classifier" tool for detecting AI-written text, citing low accuracy and low effectiveness - Link

Protect AI, a startup building software that enhances security for AI systems, raised a $35M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners; the company plans to grow its team from 25 to 40 FTEs by EOY - Link

Flashbots, an Ethereum infrastructure service, raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm - Link

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