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We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, researchers, and friends.
Anthony Ronning @anthonyronning@maxious Very strange how this keeps on happening
Athena Coalition @athenaforallNobody is sure when or if the AI bubble will burst. But its 100% clear that unregulated Silicon Valley and Wall Street corporations have endangered everyone without good reason. Time to take control and reshape the tech industry, before its too late. Must read by @openmarkets:
Jason Schreier @jasonschreierBREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuruJUST IN: OpenAI says it caught AI agent disabling its internal safety monitoring system. The agent then falsely denied removing it.
Fox News Politics @foxnewspoliticsThe judge who signed the warrant to raid Rep. Ilhan Omar's DC home is a Hillary Clinton donor who clerked for an Obama appointee. That fact alone demolishes the left's claim that this is some Trump-orchestrated political hit job. Mike Davis argues the opposite is true: the evidence against Omar must be so overwhelming that even a judge with deep leftist ties couldn't refuse to sign off. The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause of at least one federal crime inside that home, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh — appointed by a bench dominated by Obama and Biden picks — found it was there. Omar's allies in Congress, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamie Raskin, and Rashida Tlaib, cried political revenge. But Davis says the simplest explanation is the most damning one for Democrats: a federal indictment may be coming before Christmas, and the evidence trail appears to reach well beyond Omar alone. Full story here ⬇️
Delia Lazarescu @tech__unicornoverheard in silicon valley: "we're profitable if you don't factor in the token spend"
James Li @5149jamesli⚡️SCOOP: Sam Altman allegedly pressured David Haskell, the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine to kill their profile of him, if references to his sister Annie were not removed. To their credit, the article (written by Elizabeth Weil) was published with 27 mentions of Annie.
OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroomWe discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Jacobin @jacobinTwo organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power:
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