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Energy X secures $20M at $120M valuation to slash building sector emissions

TechCrunch

The push to clean up the built environment has spawned a lot of policy, as well as overlapping acronyms, including net-zero energy buildings (nZEBs) and zero-emission buildings (ZEBs). Procore, a construction tech unicorn, went public in 2021 , and Aconex, an Australia-based construction platform, was acquired by Oracle for $1.2

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An overview of areas of control work

The AI Alignment Forum

In principle, we could even allow for an end-to-end game where competitors submit either a red team attack policy or a blue team protocol and then we see how the dynamics go. These settings can be interesting to study even if the blue team has access to a basically perfect but expensive oracle of whether the AI's actions are problematic.

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How a fake “Real Oversight Board” is putting pressure on Facebook

The Verge

Here’s Olivia Solon at NBC News : A group of about 25 experts from academia, civil rights, politics and journalism announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook’s content moderation decisions, policies and other platform issues in the run-up to the presidential election and beyond. Alex Thompson / Politico ).

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Why TikTok may not survive being sold

The Verge

That said, a Microsoft-Walmart pairing still seems preferable to me (and reportedly to Zhang) than the other big player in the hunt: Larry Ellison’s Oracle, which has spent the entire Trump Administration flattering the president’s ego and may now be poised to reap the rewards. TikTok has surprised me with its cleverness before. Cargill Inc.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The Verge

Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?” Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is a prominent Trump supporter.

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Telepath is a buzzy new social network trying to fix what’s broken on Twitter

The Verge

This is a policy written by people who have argued online, and who want to create a place where those arguments are productive. But as I like to say, policy is what you enforce. But I really couldn’t be more impressed with the approach this small team is taking to building trust and safety policies so early in its existence.