💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵

Tesla appears to have wiped all old blog posts from its website, including Elon Musk's 2006 "Secret Master Plan" that served as its manifesto to tackle climate change with solar power and affordable electric cars. forbes.com/sites/alanohns…

NEW - Feds are finding Telegram groups sharing AI-generated child abuse material, alongside other horrific content. In a warrant, HSI states plainly Telegram "generally does not cooperate with law enforcement." But is all this enough to arrest Durov? forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Inside The Prompt this week: AI tools are helping North Koreans mass apply to remote IT jobs, American patriotism-themed pages with AI-generated content are spreading on Facebook and companies are opting for AI career coaches. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion — scoop via ⁦Tom Dotan⁩ & ⁦Berber Jin⁩ wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged With Multiple Crimes In France (by Cyrus Farivar // @[email protected]) forbes.com/sites/cyrusfar…

As more states pass laws banning or restricting phones at school—and districts institute their own rules—a Silicon Valley startup that makes lockable phone pouches is seeing its business explode. On Yondr, the tech getting tech out of America's classrooms:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

🚨 NEW🚨 The most disturbing use of AI I've seen to date. A man charged with multiple child exploitation crimes took a GoPro to Disney World, and harvested images of kids to create child sexual abuse material with Stable Diffusion AI, cops claim. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

One of the most horrific use cases of AI:

Scoop! Bolt is threatening legal action against the lead investor in its wild $450m fundraising round, per email from CEO Justin Grooms. Silverbear Capital said it was wrongly named as investor. Bolt says it's ready to "enforce our rights vigorously." forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

Elon confirms that’s xAI’s supercomputer is called Colossus, which we first reported back in July

🤑 NEW 🤑- Repeatedly, people have become millionaires selling stolen medications in eBay. In a new case unearthed in The Wiretap newsletter, cops say they're on the case of one of the most successful perps, caught selling pilfered morning after pills: forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

The latest back-to-school fad: tech-enabled pouches that students can use to lock away their phones for the school day. Great profile by Alexandra S. Levine.

NEW in The Prompt: Two voice actors are suing AI startup ElevenLabs for creating voices that sound strikingly similar to their own, Amazon has hired the founders of robotics company Covariant and a man used Stable Diffusion to generate CSAM. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

New from me Forbes forbes.com/sites/mattduro…

News: Nichole Wischoff and her VC firm Wischoff Ventures have raised $50 million for her third fund. I spoke to the Nashville investor about her difficult childhood, going viral on social media and how she's backing the "new supply chain" for Forbes. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

Scoop: In an email to shareholders, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow thanked a dozen investors for supporting him and the $450 million deal. Only, some of them told Forbes they actually hadn't. Meanwhile, BlackRock & others have filed a restraining order in court to block the round.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Police in California are starting to test out Apple Vision Pros in real-time surveillance centers. I spoke to Orange County Sheriff's CIO who has tested it out and he's a big fan. LAPD also buying. Robocops coming to a street near you soon? forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…