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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong — Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
SBF claims FTX CEO John Ray is not working with him, not replying to messages, and made false statements, while dodging questions on Alameda and loaning funds — - Sam Bankman-Fried is taking aim at John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, claiming he's been iced out after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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| Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: |
Unlike Bernie Madoff, SBF has not confessed to criminal conduct, arguing sloppiness and missteps caused FTX's collapse, meaning a US prosecution could take time — On December 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in history … | Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
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| Ellen Thomas / Insider: |
Internal memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January, says the move has “nothing to do” with Bret Taylor's departure — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. — Butterfield posted his announcement …
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| Reuters: |
Source: Foxconn plans to resume full production in its Zhengzhou plant in late December or early January, after worker unrest; November revenue fell 11.4% YoY — Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) expects its COVID-hit Zhengzhou plant in China to resume full production around late December to early January …
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| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
USDC stablecoin developer Circle terminates its plan to go public via a SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., announced in July 2021, by mutual agreement — The firm had announced plans to go public in July of 2021. — Circle, the company behind stablecoin USDC …
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| NBC News: |
Secret Service report: China-linked APT41 hackers stole $20M+ in US COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known pandemic fraud tied to state-affiliated hackers — Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto lender Nexo says it will exit the US market altogether in the coming months and immediately halt access to its Earn Interest Product in eight states — Nexo will immediately suspend access to its Earn product in several U.S. states. — Crypto lender Nexo announced Monday …
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Orthogonal Trading defaults on eight loans to lending protocol Maple Finance, totaling $36M, or ~30% of active loans on the protocol, likely due to FTX exposure — - Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on eight loans totalling $36 million on lending protocol Maple Finance.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti — Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Rackspace takes down its hosted Microsoft Exchange services and confirms a “security incident”, causing an “extended outage”; customers complain of poor support — Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints
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| Christopher Byrd / New Yorker: |
An interview with Cory Doctorow on lessons from science fiction, Big Tech's comeuppance, AI dangers, surveillance capitalism, smart contracts, dApps, and more — A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.
Tweets: @newyorker, @stevesilberman, @doctorow, @greatdismal, @thepublicdomain, and @lproven
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such — Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.Sponsor Posts
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