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A federal jury in San Francisco finds Elon Musk not liable in a Tesla shareholder suit over 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable in a shareholder class-action suit stemming from 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private.
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Inside ChatGPT's rushed launch, as some OpenAI executives feared rivals upstaging them; Sam Altman worries about a regulatory backlash and inflated expectations — Even inside the company, the chatbot's popularity has come as something of a shock. — One day in mid-November … | Forbes: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on AI systems replacing search engines, Microsoft's OpenAI investments, how artificial general intelligence may “break capitalism”, and more — In a rare interview, OpenAI's CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details — Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified.
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Twitter cuts off API access to Movetodon, a useful tool for finding and following one's Twitter followers on Mastodon; it's unclear if the tool broke any rule — from the trying-to-lock-the-barn-doors dept — People keep claiming that Mastodon isn't scaring Elon Musk …
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Court document: a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to ask legal questions about a case and included its responses in his decision, to save time writing the judgment — The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator's answers in a legal ruling. — Janus Rose
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Sources: Google invested ~$300M in Anthropic for a ~10% stake, making the generative AI startup use the money on Google Cloud, echoing Microsoft's OpenAI deal — Cash-for-computing deal shows how large tech groups are investing in companies at the vanguard of generative AI
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Activision Blizzard settles with the SEC for $35M, over claims of violating federal whistleblower protections and not maintaining adequate disclosure standards — - Activision Blizzard will settle with the SEC for $35 million, over claims that the company violated federal whistleblower protections …
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Global smartphone shipments declined by 12% YoY to 1.2B units in 2022, the lowest since 2013; Apple captured 48% revenue and 85% profit share of the market — - The global smartphone market declined by 18% YoY to reach 304 million units in Q4 2022. — Apple replaced Samsung …
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ChatGPT testing shows the chatbot struggles with basic arithmetic questions, confidently offering entertaining but wrong answers, an inherent problem with LLMs — ‘Large language models’ supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations — Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
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Some US emergency services operators say they are inundated with false, automated calls by the Apple Watches or iPhone 14s of skiers and fitness enthusiasts — 911 dispatchers are buried under an avalanche of false, automated distress calls from skiers and other Apple device owners who are very much alive.
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Italy's privacy watchdog orders San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker Replika to stop processing local users' data over concerns its tech poses risks to minors — San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker, Replika — which operates a freemium ‘virtual friendship’ service based …
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Germany-based Sdui, whose software provides communication and diary tools for schools, raised an $18M Series A extension, bringing total Series A to €25M — Described as an operating system for digital education, five-year-old startup Sdui is live in seven European markets.
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Onehouse, a cloud data lake service based on the Apache Hudi platform, raised a $25M Series A led by Addition and Greylock, bringing its total funding to $33M — Onehouse emerged last year with a cloud data lake product built on top of the open source Apache Hudi project.
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Treasury Prime, which offers APIs to help businesses integrate with banks, raised a $40M Series C led by BAM Elevate, bringing its total raised to about $73M — Treasury Prime co-founder and CEO Chris Dean believes that the best outcomes for consumers will result from traditional banks and fintechs working together.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of which ~$7B went to originals, live sports, and licensed third-party content included with Prime — The expenses related to video and music content were up 28 percent from 2021, when the tech giant spent $13 billion.
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