Sam Altman is officially back at work as OpenAI CEO. Meta is about to launch Threads in Europe, but their plan to offer ad free subscription tiers for their services has hit a speed bump. You can trick LLMs into revealing their training data. And I warned you before, but if you have any dormant Google accounts, better see to them toot suite.

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OpenAI Will Add Microsoft as Board Observer, Plans Governance Changes (Bloomberg)
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (The Verge)
Meta’s Threads to Launch in Europe in App’s Biggest Expansion Since Debut (WSJ)
Meta Platforms' ad-free service targeted in EU consumer complaint (Reuters)
It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too (The Verge)
ChatGPT's training data can be exposed via a "divergence attack" (StackDiary)
Your Unused Gmail Account May Be Permanently Deleted Friday (WSJ)

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