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After Chinese authorities froze several Alameda accounts worth more than $1 billion, Bankman-Fried directed an employee to make bribery payments to at least one government official there, an indictment says.

Former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been hit with another federal charge: bribery.

In a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried of bribing a government official in China.

According to the new indictment, Bankman-Fried successfully bribed at least one Chinese government official with a $40 million payment in 2021.

Bankman-Fried is currently awaiting trial after being charged with a host of crimes related to the mismanagement and collapse of FTX, previously one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency firms, which he co-founded, as well as his hedge fund, Alameda Research.

Bankman-Fried’s attorneys did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

After Chinese authorities froze several Alameda accounts worth more than $1 billion, Bankman-Fried directed an employee to make bribery payments to at least one government official there, the indictment says. The Alameda accounts were held in two major Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges.

“After confirmation that the accounts were unfrozen, Bankman-Fried authorized the transfer of additional tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency to complete the bribe,” it says.

The alleged bribe appears to have been a last resort. Bankman-Fried initially tried several other methods to unfreeze the funds, the indictment says. Those tactics included hiring attorneys to lobby for him in China and opening up accounts on those Chinese exchanges using the personal information of several unnamed people who were unaffiliated with his companies.

The bribery allegation is the most recent in a growing list of criminal charges that Bankman-Fried now faces. He was first arrested in December by U.S. authorities and extradited from the Bahamas to the U.S.

He has been charged by the Southern District Court of New York with a variety of crimes including defrauding investors and committing wire fraud as part of what the Securities and Exchange Commissioner called "a yearslong fraud."

He has also been charged with making illegal campaign contributions.

Under new leadership, FTX declared bankruptcy and is in the process of unwinding the business and recovering its remaining assets.

Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy. He is out on bail under terms that were recently revised to allow him access to a basic phone and computer.

Source: NBC

OpenAI announced plug-ins for ChatGPT, giving a small group of companies a chance to connect their software directly with the service. In theory, this means that you could use ChatGPT to book a flight through Kayak, make and then order from a shopping list with Instacart, or tell your chatbot to search the web for you.
OpenAI described this rollout, in muted terms, as just another step in its gradual “iterative deployment philosophy.” This is a bit of an understatement, and nobody in tech mistook it as accurate. ChatGPT already has more than 100 million users, according to the company. Now it has an app store. It can act, in some ways, like an operating system. And it has at least one clear business plan that could matter to regular users: to reorient the entire internet, as well as users’ own devices, around chat.

So far, ChatGPT has mostly served as a tech demo — an early way to interact with a new breed of advanced language models that can mimic human communication and attempt a surprising range of tasks: writing, summarizing, explaining, translating. What it couldn’t do, for the most part, was interact with the outside world or even with the rest of the internet. It was relatively siloed — its outputs and ambitions limited by its slightly and intentionally stale training data.

ChatGPT put on a great show and effectively inculcated a sense of potential about LLMs — and itself and its parent company — in its users. It could do a lot of things for you, but it couldn’t do many things on your behalf. It was, literally, just another web app in a tab in your browser. With plug-ins, it now has control over a browser, through which it can act as an all-purpose assistant.

Currently, the list of apps available to use through ChatGPT, on an invite-only basis, is small. Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, and Slack are probably the best known, and there are tools for accessing financial and legal data and doing mathematical calculations. The suggestion, however, is clear: ChatGPT is going to at least try to see if it can function as a new home page, or home screen, for its users — as an agent that mediates or automates regular computing tasks, as an interface for your other interfaces. Instead of going to a website, interacting with its interface, and finding or doing what you need, ChatGPT will attempt to carry out and conceal that process for you.

OpenAI isn’t the first company to try to get its users to use chat instead of buttons, search boxes, and menus, but previous attempts to retrofit popular U.S. services with conversational interfaces haven’t gone well. (Remember “chatting with the news“?) Granted, previous chatbots were comparatively primitive. And what OpenAI is testing out here isn’t just whether chatting is a better way to engage with, say, a job-listing platform but whether it can turn its users into captive customers who start and end their days in OpenAI’s text box instead of Google’s. It’s an attempt to manifest the Silicon Valley dream of an everything app: one piece of software through which you use all others, an operating system for everything, a fundamentally different way of interacting with our computers and phones, and a thing that replaces the home screen, search box, feed, or maybe all of the above.

This is a significant announcement for a few reasons. First, it suggests a plan for OpenAI that isn’t just licensing agreements with existing software companies or charging for access to an API. ChatGPT with an app store is a real product aimed directly at regular people, not a testing environment or tech demo. It gives a better sense of what OpenAI might actually try to do as a company than a hundred aimless conversations about AGI, x-risk, or machine consciousness. It feels like an actual encounter with OpenAI as the well-funded start-up it is rather than as a research lab, series of viral social-media phenomena, or avatar of budding new tech epistemology. It’s a plan to give people a different way to use tools they already need and like and to give other companies a way to build new things in an ecosystem. If OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft shows what its AI looks like as a feature in other companies’ platforms, ChatGPT plug-ins are an attempt to become a platform.

This is, broadly speaking, how every previous internet giant became dominant: by giving outside firms a way to get a piece of their growth, giving users a way to do more from within their apps and services, and eventually accumulating and leveraging their new powers over firms that have become overly dependent on access to their platf — well, I’m sure it’ll be different this time around.

Maybe chat as a general computing interface will quickly discover the limits of its appeal, sending OpenAI’s GPT models, and billions of dollars, running in a different direction. Or we could find that giving executive powers to an early-stage AI that’s increasing in capability on an “exponential” curve proves to be as reckless as it sounds in summary (there are obvious risks here for plug-in creators, which will learn firsthand what exactly a hungry LLM can do with access to their services and users).

In any case, the ambition here is massive and clear: OpenAI is wondering aloud whether it might be possible to subordinate and remake the internet with an everything chat — and declaring its intention to try.

SOURCE: Intelligencer

Jack Ma’s whereabouts are making headlines again, roughly a year after the billionaire founder of Alibaba disappeared from the public eye.

Ma had chosen to stay abroad despite China’s efforts to restore confidence in entrepreneurs, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. Within hours, however, it seems Ma actually visited an Alibaba-funded K-12 school in Hangzhou, according to an article published by the school, Yungu.

In Hangzhou, which is home to the founder and Alibaba. He reportedly talked about how ChatGPT posed a challenge to education during the visit.

Interest in Ma’s whereabouts has renewed recently, given that China is trying to voice support for the private sector following a years-long crackdown on the tech industry, including shelving the IPO plans of Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba. The movement prompted some founders to move abroad and seek to expand their businesses overseas.

The news comes as Chinese tech firms are facing unprecedented pressure in the West. Last Thursday, U.S. lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in a congressional hearing that spanned five hours, firing harsh questions that brought to light the irreconcilable differences between the two superpowers. The hearing, as one Chinese founder said to TechCrunch, sent a chill up their spine.

TikTok isn’t the only one running into roadblocks in the U.S. A group of “businesses and individuals” have formed a “Shut Down Shein” campaign to question the business practices of Shein, the Singapore-headquartered fast fashion giant that has risen to global dominance thanks to its data-driven supply chains in China. Shein refuted a report that it faced risks of being shut down in the U.S.

The White House also announced that President Joe Biden would sign an executive order aimed at curtailing spyware abuse by setting guidelines for the companies that produce it.
At least 50 U.S. government employees are suspected or confirmed to have been targeted with commercial spyware that hacks smartphones to spy on their owners, the White House said Monday.

A White House official said on a phone call that the number of known victims who work for the U.S. spans “at least 10 countries on multiple continents.” The White House requested that the official not be named as part of the terms of the call.

“Our efforts to identify additional targeted personnel continue, and we obviously cannot rule out even more instances,” the official said.

The White House also announced that President Joe Biden would sign an executive order aimed at curtailing spyware abuse by setting guidelines for the companies that produce it. The official said the order gives the White House the power to ban a company’s software across all federal agencies if it is found to have used spyware to target activists, curb political dissent or spy on Americans.

The announcement comes after a series of revelations in recent years about the use of advanced smartphone spyware by some governments around the world. A 2018 report by The Citizen Lab, a technology and internet project at the University of Toronto, found that one type of spyware had most likely been used by 36 different operators in 45 countries.

The shadowy companies behind this spyware make up a growing industry that gives governments a way to spy on individuals’ smartphones. Spyware programs have been shown to provide near-total access to a target’s smartphone, even to email accounts and to microphones in order to listen in on private conversations.

While spyware companies often say their products are used to catch criminals, they’ve been repeatedly deployed against journalists, political candidates, researchers and activists around the world, leading to widespread condemnation from human rights advocates.

There is believed to be only one previous public instance of U.S. officials’ devices being infected with spyware. In 2021, nine State Department employees were hacked with Pegasus, the flagship program of Israeli spyware company NSO Group, according to a Reuters report. The U.S. sanctioned NSO Group, as well as another spyware company, Candiru, around the same time.

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, which has done prolific reporting on Pegasus attacks on journalists and human rights workers' phones, praised the executive order as a likely effective way to steer the spyware industry toward less abuse.

“Most of the companies in the industry have the goal of eventually selling to the USA,” Scott-Railton said.

“Now, the U.S. is saying: You’ve got two doors. Behind one door is, be ethical and judicious and maybe you get a chance. Behind the proliferation door: lose our number forever. And that’s a big, powerful thing for an industry built around profit.”

Three children and three staff members were gunned down at a private Christian school in Tennessee on Monday before the shooter was killed by police, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded at The Covenant School on Burton Hills Boulevard in Nashville where officers "engaged" the attacker, who was described by police as a 28-year-old woman.
The shooter was killed on the school's second floor, a spokesperson said. She had two "assault-type riles and a handgun," according to the official.
Students of the school, which serves preschool students through sixth graders, were being bused to Woodmont Baptist Church, two miles away, to be reunited with their parents.
Police said they first got calls about the shooter at 10:13 a.m. CT and Nashville firefighters first reported their personnel were responding to an “active aggressor” at 10:39 a.m. CT.
"The police department response was swift," police spokesperson Don Aaron told reporters.
"They heard shots coming from the second level. They immediately went to the gunfire. When the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter, a female, who was firing. The officers engaged her. She was fatally shot by responding police officers."
Five police officers came upon the shooter and two opened fire on her, Aaron said. The shooter had entered the school through a "side entrance" on the first floor, he added.
"By 10:27 the shooter was deceased," Aaron said.
One officer was hurt by shattered glass, officials said.
The names and ages of the victims have not been released.
Shortly after police announced the shooter was dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also said “there is no current threat to public safety.”
The Covenant School employs 33 teachers with an 8-to-1 student-to-instructor ratio, according to its website.
On a normal day of class, there would be 209 students and 42 staff members on campus, Aaron said.
The school was founded in 2001 as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, and shares the same address as the church.
The fire department helped usher the children out of the school, carefully trying to help them from seeing the carnage.
“We were on scene to help them mitigate anyone from seeing exactly what else as going on,” fire department spokesperson Kendra Loney said. "But we're sure they heard the chaos surrounding this."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden has been briefed on the school shooting.
In a statement, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said: "I am closely monitoring the tragic situation at Covenant. As we continue to respond, please join us in praying for the school, congregation & Nashville community."
The gunfire in Nashville on Monday follows multiple shootings on campuses across the country.

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Olodo hacker!!
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