Andrew Hedley, who worked in risk at Vanguard and Prudential in London, recognized the need for transparency in financial institutions. He founded Novatus, which has received $40M in funding to help financial institutions manage their data better. This is crucial for assessing and reducing risk.
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2024-09-14 08:51:13 AM |
The Mental Health Coalition (MHC) has launched a new program called Thrive, which aims to prevent suicide and self-harm content from spreading online. Meta, Snap, and TikTok are founding members of the program, which will provide a way for platforms to share hashes of graphic suicide and self-harm content. The hashes will not include identifiable information about accounts or individuals.
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2024-09-14 08:51:12 AM |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Google president Ruth Porat met with White House officials to discuss the future of artificial intelligence energy infrastructure in the U.S. The meeting focused on bringing the public and private sectors together to talk about artificial intelligence's energy usage, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing, and grid capacity. An OpenAI spokesperson emphasized the importance of building additional infrastructure in the U.S. for the country's industrial policy and economic future.
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2024-09-14 08:51:11 AM |