TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI to Form Committee on Safety and Security

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, PayPal is planning an ad business using data on its millions of shoppers. And T-Mobile agrees to a $4.4 billion dollar deal to buy most of U.S Cellular. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.0	Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 28th.
0:18.0	I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.
0:21.0	Open AIs Board is forming a new committee to evaluate safety and security.
0:25.8	The company said in a blog post that the committee will be headed by directors and CEO Sam
0:31.1	Altman.
0:32.1	The move comes after the generative artificial intelligence firm became embroiled in a legal battle with actress
0:38.0	Scarlet Johanson over its new voice assistant named Sky in its latest AI model, Chatch EPT 4O.
0:45.1	Jo Hansen said she believes the voice of Sky sounded eerily similar to her own.
0:49.9	Open AI has said Sky was never intended to resemble
0:52.9	Johanson.
0:54.0	Wall Street Journal owner News Corp has a content licensing
0:57.0	partnership with Open AI.
0:59.7	We exclusively report that PayPal is planning
1:02.3	to get into the advertising business.
1:04.4	The digital payments company is hoping to boost its growth by starting an ad network.
1:08.9	It plans to build its business around the data on purchases and spending behaviors of the millions of shoppers that use its services.
1:15.0	This includes the more socially enabled Venmo app.
1:18.0	PayPal has hired Uber's former head of advertising to lead its newly created PayPal Ads Division.
1:24.5	And T-Mobile has agreed to buy most of U.S. cellular in a deal that would bring more consolidation
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