Search profiles are a dedicated, shareable space to highlight content across social media, video and news platforms, and help audiences find accurate and up-to-date information about sources on Search.

People can easily follow a source from their new Search profile, so they’re more likely to see content from that source on Discover on the Google app.

Search profiles give publishers and creators a central place to showcase their latest articles, videos and social posts. People can easily follow sources from their profile, so they’re more likely to see that content on Discover, found on the home screen of the Google app. Search profiles can be accessed on mobile via a creator or publisher’s knowledge panel (the information box on Search for notable people, places and things), by tapping the name of a publisher or creator on Discover, or through a direct URL.

To start, publishers and creators with a sizable following on at least one major social or video platform can claim their Search profile and customize it with an avatar, bio, website, social media and video platforms, and other important content. Claiming a profile may trigger the creation of a knowledge panel for eligible publishers and creators. If you already have a knowledge panel, it will be enhanced with your updated avatar, latest content, and a direct profile link.

Search profiles will initially launch in the US. In the future, we’ll look to expand Search profiles to more publishers and creators around the world, and add more capabilities to make profiles even more useful. We look forward to seeing how these new profiles help publishers and creators shape their presence and highlight their work on Search.

Source: Google

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks.

The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,” the company said Thursday in a blog post that disclosed internal data documenting how quickly its most advanced models are improving.

The post, written by the head of its internal research institute and a company co-founder, noted that model advances appear to be on a path toward “recursive self-improvement,” when AI systems can improve on their own without human intervention. Some AI insiders have seen that threshold as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” the post, written by Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, says. It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.

The post cautions that recursive self-improvement hasn’t yet happened and isn’t inevitable, “but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

The $1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention

Anthropic has recently emerged as the front-runner in a ferocious competition for AI supremacy with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Jason Henry for WSJ

Source: WSJ

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The company seems to be positioning Forum as a platform that functions similarly to Reddit, describing the app as a “dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about.”

After you sign in with your Facebook account, Forum will load in your groups, profile, and activity, and let you make posts with a nickname, just like on the standard Facebook app. Meta noted that your groups still exist on Facebook, and anything you share on Forum will be visible in your groups on Facebook.

Meta says Forum’s feeds are centered on conversations within groups, allowing users to see “what real people are saying, not just what’s trending,” and making it easy to pick up where they left off.

The app includes an AI-powered “Ask” tab that lets users ask questions and receive answers compiled from discussions across different groups. There’s also an admin AI assistant to help administrators manage groups and moderate content.

Source: Tech Crunch

A new Worker Accounting and Retraining Notification (WARN) report reveals that 606 LinkedIn employees were notified of permanent layoffs last week, which will go into effect on July 13.

The bulk of the layoffs (352) come from their Mountain View, California office, with another 66 remote employees in the same city.

Another 108 employees were laid off at their San Francisco office, plus another 59 at their Sunnyvale office and 21 in Carpinteria.

The layoffs were foreshadowed by an internal memo from LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero

“We need to reinvent how we work, with agile teams focused on our highest priorities, and by shifting investments toward areas such as infrastructure to fulfill our mission and vision over the long term. This requires hard prioritization and tradeoffs,” the memo stated.

“Today I’m sharing the difficult decision that I, along with our leadership team, have made to reduce roles across GBO, Marketing, Engineering and Product,” the CEO added.

A 5% cut of the company’s 17,500 employees would result in a cut of 875 jobs, though there is no indication that more could be shown the door at LinkedIn quite yet. The cuts come just weeks after LinkedIn announced in a third-quarter earnings statement that they posted a 12% growth in revenue year-over-year.

Source: New York Post

Google is bringing AI by default into their search box.

Intelligent Search Bar

• Expands for longer queries
• AI-powered query suggestions
• Follow-up questions in AI mode

Search Agents

• Navigate web for users
• Run in the background 24/7
• Track changes across the internet
• Alert users to new information/updates

Agentic Coding

• 'Mini-apps' within Search
• Custom dashboards and trackers
• Turns search results into interactive page

GitHub has since detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension.

GitHub has removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately, according to their claims.

Their current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with their investigation so far. They have moved quickly to reduce risk. Critical secrets were rotated yesterday and overnight with the highest-impact credentials prioritized first.

GitHub continues to analyze logs, validate secret rotation, and monitor for any follow-on activity. They have said that they will take additional action as the investigation warrants. They will publish a fuller report once the investigation is complete.

Source: GitHub

This is similar to when Yuri Milner offered to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner.

The deal gives fledgling AI startups guaranteed compute resources and significantly extends their runway by covering heavy API costs.

Some in the community have warned that taking these tokens could be risky. Because OpenAI will get a clear look at how the startups use the tokens, some fear the platform could copy promising ideas and integrate them into its own free or native offerings.

Source: Sam Altman