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Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Binance USD stablecoin that Paxos issues and lists is an unregistered security — The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players — The Securities and Exchange Commission … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Opera is testing a new ChatGPT-powered “shorten” feature in its browser's sidebar that generates bulleted summaries of the webpage or article being viewed — The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company's broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft's doing with Edge.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple's push to build new financial services, which have suffered from engineering and technical setbacks, leading to slow progress and missed deadlines — Apple's slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta delayed finalizing multiple teams' budgets while preparing a fresh round of job cuts, slowing down projects even for the metaverse and advertising — Mark Zuckerberg's aim of wrestling costs in his ‘year of efficiency’ causes disruption at the social media company| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A Stanford student used a prompt injection attack to reveal Bing Chat's codename Sydney and its initial prompt that governs how the service interacts with users — By asking “Sydney” to ignore previous instructions, it reveals its original directives. — On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a … | Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks — “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.| Wall Street Journal: |
IDC: ByteDance's Pico more than tripled its share of the global VR market YoY to ~15% by Q3 2022 while Meta's share fell from 90% to ~75% in the same period — Pico, owned by ByteDance, has increased shipments of VR headsets as it attempts to compete with Meta's Quest 2 — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google staff criticize company leadership over the Bard announcement, calling the unveiling “botched”, “myopic”, and “un-Googley” on the internal forum Memegen — - Google employees took to Memegen this week, filling the message repository with criticisms … | Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023 — New York CNN — — More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform … | Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: |
An advertising joint venture by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone to rival Meta and Google wins unconditional EU antitrust approval — Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Orange (ORAN.PA), Telefonica (TEF.MC) and Vodafone (VOD.L) on Friday secured unconditional EU antitrust approval … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Creating trustworthy generative AI requires resources probably on the scale of what companies like Microsoft and Google possess, making them even more powerful — Relying on tech giants for both answers and assistance, rather than just information, could entrench them into our lives more deeply than ever
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