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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's headset “Reality Pro” to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple's mixed-reality headset and not much else. Also: The company hikes battery …
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Tweets: @andrewhartar, @carnage4life, @markgurman, @vadimyuryev, @rjonesy, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @ishanagarwal24, and @markgurman
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Seattle Public Schools sue TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies for allegedly causing a youth mental health crisis — A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges …
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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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IPWatchdog.com, Politico, Staying Drunk on Writing, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Female Foundry, and Insider
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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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Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, The Block, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
| Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: |
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?
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Mastodon: @DenialShown@c.im, @thebostonlol@urbanists.social, @thegrugq@infosec.exchange, @dalias@hachyderm.io, @jeff@newsie.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GregNilsen@mastodon.social, @tob@hachyderm.io, and @juddlegum@journa.host
Tweets: @paul__armstrong, @ourielohayon, @conradkbarwa, @carnage4life, @petercoffin, @mgsiegler, @tan123, @branddna, and @carnage4life
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged — We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade. — After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.
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The Rationalist. Tweets: @digitalshields, @rafat, @mattrogerson, @counternotions, @kantrowitz, and @rowlsmanthorpe
| Oliver Whang / New York Times: |
A look at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab, which is exploring questions around artificial consciousness and the possibility of self-aware robots — The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind's next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.
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The Splintered Mind and Popular Mechanics
| 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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Engadget, NDTV, The Guardian, New York Post, Mashable, Appuals.com, and BGR India
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @alanajoy, @jamesrbuk, @alexeheath, and @grogsgamut
| 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 Guardian, gHacks Technology News, Entrepreneur, Polygon, VICE, BuzzFeed News, Gizmodo, Neowin, Slashdot, and Insider
| 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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Livemint, BetaKit, Thurrott, and AppleInsider
Mastodon: @teledyn@mstdn.ca. Tweets: @amir, @sarthakgh, @searchbrat, @amir, @steven_strauss, @akinunver, @annbordetsky, @danielpriestley, @marxmatt, @sxicex, @notaboutthecell, @jowyang, @gregegansf, @pyjama_ceo, @carnage4life, @pmddomingos, @ldrogen, @ejwalters, @aerocles, @adrianweckler, @warmoth, @amir, @pjbrown_iii, @martinsfp, @pitdesi, and @alex
| 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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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
After years of hype, 5G took a back seat at CES 2023, as the industry focuses on laying the groundwork for self-driving cars, AR, and expanding IoT in cities — When it wasn't being overshadowed by covid resurgences, CES, for the past few years, has partially functioned as a big 5G pep rally.| 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 …
Tweets: @trengriffin, @ibmnews, and @rossmauri
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