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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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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 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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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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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC and the EDNY are scrutinizing transfers between DCG and the lending arm of its Genesis subsidiary, but have not accused DCG of wrongdoing — US authorities are digging into the internal financial dealings of Barry Silbert's expansive crypto empire, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks — The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
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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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Ant Group says founder Jack Ma will give up control as the fintech giant nears the completion of its two-year restructuring driven by Chinese regulators — China's Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma no longer controls the Chinese fintech giant after a series of shareholding adjustments …
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| 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| Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: |
A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of a fake image of a nonexistent tweet in her name — Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health — When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning … | 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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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 … | 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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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: due to development issues, Apple is “more likely” to debut its mixed-reality headset in the spring or at WWDC 2023, not January as previously predicted — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a tweet thread today that ongoing delays with development of Apple's mixed-reality headset …
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