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Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster on AI due to the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside — Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI. Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.
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Court filing: the US DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging FTX US' general counsel and a potential witness, and asks a judge to limit his communications — The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive's attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music — An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it.
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox having no major 2022 releases, 2023 momentum, layoffs, the Activision deal amid the FTC lawsuit, and more — Xbox's CEO talks about the recent Developer Direct, 2022 struggles, layoffs, and what 2023 could hold.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China — President Joe Biden's administration secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery …
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| Tim Harford / Financial Times: |
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall — One winter morning in early 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting-house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring.| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022, to their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% YoY as Apple took the country's No. 2 spot — Apple topped smartphone sales in China in the fourth quarter of 2022, enabling the US tech giant to rank as the country's … | Moneycontrol: |
Some ShareChat employees and investors detail the company's leadership crisis and say revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and its ~$5B valuation in 2022 — The company's top and middle management are hollowing out, revenue has not kept pace with cash burn and Sharechat's top-tier valuation …
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| Bloomberg: |
As the GOP assumes US House leadership, the antitrust subcommittee shifts its focus from bipartisan efforts to curb Big Tech's power to free speech issues — The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year's bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies with a change in leadership on a key panel.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to take “less severe actions” against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets, and reserve suspensions for severe violations — Twitter is promising that it'll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules …
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MSN, BGR India, and Reuters
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple is developing tools to let non-coders use Siri in its MR headset to build AR apps and is working on AR content emphasizing health and wellness — Apple is developing software to make it easy for users of its upcoming mixed-reality headset to build their own augmented reality apps …
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Tweets: @waynema, @benbajarin, @techtravails, and @trevorcroker
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code — Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit … Sponsor Posts
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