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PitchBook: investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals in 2022, almost as much as was invested in the previous five years combined — An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text …
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| Tony Ho Tran / The Daily Beast: |
GPTZero, a Princeton student's app that uses perplexity and burstiness metrics to help detect whether a human or ChatGPT wrote an academic essay, goes viral — “Humans deserve to know when the writing isn't human.” — Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.
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The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 — More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn't it taken off?| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT into Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and its other productivity apps — In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft …
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Sources: some former US Twitter employees finally received their severance agreements, offering only one month of base pay as severance and no prorated bonuses — Following further delays this week, some former Twitter employees finally received their official severance agreements on Saturday …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working AR contact lens prototype in March 2022, pivots to focus on its micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of its staff — Mojo Vision, a startup that had embarked on a years-long effort to create a smart contact lens with a built-in display … | Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: |
DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February 2023 — The AI legal assistant has helped people contest parking tickets, now it's leveling up to the courtroom—and the judge doesn't know.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter cuts more staff in its diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in a unit mitigating hate speech and harassment — Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US attorney's office for the Western District of Washington sent subpoenas to US-based hedge funds for records of their communications with Binance — The federal probe into Binance is unfolding at a time of deep uncertainty in the crypto industry
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| Bloomberg: |
Some companies are taking a liberal interpretation of California's pay transparency law with wide pay ranges; one Netflix job posting has a $90K-$900K pay range — A Tesla Inc. software engineer could earn anywhere from $83,200 to $417,600. Netflix Inc. has one job posting advertising … | Financial Times: |
Despite a recent pledge by Chinese officials to support tech to boost growth, VCs and foreign investors remain wary after a brutal, two-year regulatory campaign — Beijing about-face met with caution after brutal regulatory campaign to tame large internet groups| Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu: |
Marseille-based Volta Medical, whose AI assistant helps surgeons in cardiac ablation procedures, raised a €36M Series B, bringing its total funding to over €70M — Marseille-based Volta Medical is preparing for additional clinical trials, after successfully winning CE and FDA-approval …
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| Darío Gil / Fortune: |
IBM SVP and Director of Research Darío Gil says the company will stop pursuing numeric patent leadership and focus instead on open innovation and collaboration — For 29 years straight, IBM has led the United States in minting patents, at its peak filing over 10,000 US patent applications …
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