Sam Biddle

3 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

OpenAI has always said it’s a different kind of Big Tech titan, founded not just to rack up a stratospheric valuation of $400 billion (and counting), but also to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” The meteoric machine-learning firm announced itself to the world in a December 2015 press release that lays out a vision of technology to benefit all people as people, not citizens. There are neither good guys nor adversaries.

1 month ago | intercept.com.br | Sam Biddle

Sem anúncios. Sem patrões. Com você. Reportagens como a que você acabou de ler só existem porque temos liberdade para ir até onde a verdade nos levar. É isso que diferencia o Intercept Brasil de outras redações: aqui, os anúncios não têm vez, não aceitamos dinheiro de políticos nem de empresas privadas, e não restringimos nossas notícias a quem pode pagar. Acreditamos que o jornalismo de verdade é livre para fiscalizar os poderosos e defender o interesse público.

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Sam Biddle

Following multiple employee-led protests against the company’s contracts with the Israeli military, Microsoft workers discovered that any emails they send containing the word “Palestine” inexplicably disappear. According to internal communications reviewed by The Intercept, employees on Wednesday began noticing that email messages sent from their company account containing a handful of keywords related to Palestine and Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza were not transmitted as expected.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

Following multiple employee-led protests against the company’s contracts with the Israeli military, Microsoft workers discovered that any emails they send containing the word “Palestine” inexplicably disappear. According to internal communications reviewed by The Intercept, employees on Wednesday began noticing that email messages sent from their company account containing a handful of keywords related to Palestine and Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza were not transmitted as expected.

1 month ago | theintercept.com | Sam Biddle

The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies. The U.S. intelligence community is now buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing the Fourth Amendment. But the surveillance state has encountered a problem: There’s simply too much data on sale from too many corporations and brokers. So the government has a plan for a one-stop shop.