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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

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Show Notes

-Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

-Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

-Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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