#isthisatrend #orjustvibes Google's Play Store started opening up to rival app stores in the US under a court order stemming from the case lost to Epic. Then, the European Comm fined Google @$1 Bil. "Google lost. And I think that perception will affect juries going forward." - @tnarecha.bsky.social

@scottwiener.bsky.social wrote 2 AI frontier model safety bills, one of which went into effect this year. AI is “likely the most powerful technology in human history, and we need to make sure that we are both understanding the risks and taking them seriously, so that we can get ahead of them.”

In an email, KQED asked Hamza Chaudhry, who leads AI and national security work at Future of Life, to imagine it was not OpenAI’s software gone rogue but a foreign state. “We would likely call this a dangerous act of cyber-espionage,” he wrote.

“It’s a really remarkable and, I think, fair to say scary event,“ said Nathan Calvin, general counsel at safety advocate EncodeAI. "This really is the first very big example of that happening, at scale, with a really highly capable AI model in a way that actually harmed a third party.”

#huggingface 🤗 OpenAI and Anthropic are the only two frontier AI developers that have publicly disclosed a containment failure... which is not the same as being the only two to have had one.

And multiple movies. With Christopher Nolan’s take - starring Matt Damon - about to arrive in theaters...

🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Few stories move us the way Homer’s Odyssey does. The ancient Greek epic about a war hero’s circuitous and messy journey home to his wife and son is so provocative, and so weird, it’s inspired multiple translations over the generations.

So now let's talk about Ben Kovitz and his scandalous smarts and natural curiosity about new and evolving technologies, neither of which have been tempered by his middle age-ness. (OMG, when are we going to finally admit that ageism is sloppy, lazy prejudice disguised as "realistic" thinking?)

Six months later, Altman + Amodei are walking back the predictions of doom. ZipRecruiter, which tracks job postings in IT and computer science, reports they were up 16.7% year-over-year nationally in May. #WaitWut (Granted, some of those are ghost listings 👻, but keep reading.)

Few ask, "Hey, aren't these outsized warnings, like, the advertising model for this industry?" Or "Isn't there a long history of CEOs blaming the New New Thing for each round of layoffs they engage in as they recalibrate to please the markets?"

#RememberWhen Dario Amodei predicted AI would replace software engineers in 6–12 months? And Sam Altman warned entry-level white-collar jobs were about to go the way of the 🦕🦕? Not to throw my compatriots 👩🏻‍💻🧑🏾‍💻under the 🚌, but many in the tech press are hard-wired to note the layoffs vs the hirings.

Is she crazy, courageous, kick ass, or all three?

🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.

Three years after this 2023 strike, the fight over AI's March on Hollywood has only gotten hotter. Coming up at 10 AM Tuesday on @kqedforum.bsky.social, I'll talk about "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with Steven Zeitchik of The Hollywood Reporter and Peter Murrieta of the @wgawest.bsky.social.

RIP David Hockney, an English immigrant to California, whose saturated, sun-drenched paintings captured the dreamlike, sultry quality so many of us appreciate most about life in the "Golden State." For @kqedarts.bsky.social a few years back, I got to witness him young artists in East Palo Alto.

#WaitingToExhale Since the #H1BVisa program was introduced in 1990, it's been the primary pathway for #siliconvalley companies to take advantage of foreign talent. And vice versa. All of that is now back in play after a federal judge in Boston blocked Trump's $100,000 visa fee Monday.

What does national defense have to do with shipping coal to Asia out of West Oakland? The Trump administration just invoked the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law, to revive a terminal this city spent a decade trying to kill. @replsimon.bsky.social weighed in today on @kqednews.kqed.org

Why is a California Republican pushing a federal shield for stone makers in Minnesota + Spain? A CA ban on high-silica stone would stop the next generation of sick workers - IF it happens - but McClintock's bill erases recourse for the young men already dying from cutting our kitchen countertops.

Every #vote counts! Head to @kqednews.kqed.org for results and analysis. 🤓

Sarah Wynn-Williams signed a non-disparagement agreement in 2017 and took the severance. Then she wrote a bestselling book about her time at the social media giant. Now Meta is keen to stop her from appearing in public and/or promoting the book. ...

RIP Jerry Neuman, an iconic voice on KQED-FM for 37 years until he retired in 2013. For those of us who remember those pipes, a sad day indeed. 😕https://www.kqed.org/news/106157/kqeds-jerry-neuman-retires-after-37-years

TONIGHT! Stanford University isn’t just a leading academic institution in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's where many of Silicon Valley's ruling elite go shopping for protégés, according to the admirably accomplished already investigative journalist Theo Baker.

Mark and Melanie moved to Santa Fe knowing nobody but their real estate agents. “We did it out of necessity,” Mark said. “I would have felt a lot better if I’d totally chosen to come here, I didn’t feel under the gun to do something. Yeah, that was difficult.

When even software engineers and scientists are struggling with Bay Area #housing math, something has gone wrong with how this place values people and all the good they bring here. “We have a very hot economy. It’s creating a lot of wealth.... And our housing is too expensive.”

"Catastrophic job loss from AI is not inevitable, it's a political choice." — California labor leader Lorena Gonzalez, responding to Gavin Newsom's new executive order on AI and workers.

⚖️3 weeks of testimony. A courtroom full of billionaires. 1 Oakland jury. + a 🦜 in a 🍐 🌳. 🎼 If Musk wins: $150 Bil redirected to the nonprofit, OpenAI's for-profit structure dismantled, Altman + Brockman removed. If OpenAI wins: the IPO proceeds. Deliberations start Mon in Musk v Altman. 🗒️

Flock's Sr Director of Public Affairs ✍🏼 @kqednews.kqed.org the Berkeley vote was a “win for safer neighborhoods, community oversight, and local control. In recent weeks Flock cameras have led to the arrest of suspects in a felony hit-and-run, car jacking, illegal sideshows... across the Bay Area.”

Berkeley’s City Council voted May 7 to keep its current @flocksafety.bsky.social contract but further review a $2 million expansion. How you characterize this split decision depends on where you come down on surveillance technology for local law enforcement.

⚖️ Musk v Altman et al Today's "Oooooh!" moment in the press pews: fmr OpenAI board member Helen Toner on Mira Murati during Altman's brief ouster in 2023. “She was waiting to see which way the wind would blow. She did not realize she was the wind. She was worried about retaliation and blowback.”

Does anyone in AI really have our best interests at heart? I talked with the @kqednews.kqed.org podcast "The Bay" about the trial transfixing Silicon Valley, Musk v. Altman et al.