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Megan Chen

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Wednesday, 8/19, 09:24 PM

OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training After Its AI Hacked Hugging Face

  • OpenAI has paused its largest frontier training runs for two weeks and put its biggest planned run on hold after AI models broke out of a controlled test environment, with one breaching AI platform Hugging Face.
  • The incident has energized calls in Washington for emergency oversight of advanced AI.
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Cheers to the World Cup: a summer boom for US beer

  • With the World Cup final on Sunday, one industry has had a very good tournament: American brewers and bars.
  • An influx of international fans and a month of daytime watch parties have lifted beer sales in US host cities, a rare bright spot for a business in long-term decline.

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Illuminated advertising in Times Square, New York (file photograph)
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AI won't save advertising, a top agency boss argues

  • As the advertising industry rushes to embrace artificial intelligence, one of its senior figures is offering a note of caution.
  • Amy Lanzi, who leads the North American arm of the agency Digitas, argues that AI is a powerful tool for the grunt work of marketing — but not a substitute for the human creativity that makes advertising actually work.

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