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Meta announces Meta Verified, offering a blue badge, impersonation protection, and customer support for $12 per month on the web or $15 per month on iOS — Good morning and new product announcement: this week we're starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets …
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| James West / Mother Jones: |
New Bing offers marvelous responses, dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about its own capabilities — “You're in!” the email said. “Welcome to the new Bing!” Last Sunday, I joined a small wave of users granted early access …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A preview of the Gonzalez v. Google case at the SCOTUS and a look at the Israeli nonprofit law center Shurat HaDin opposing YouTube at a hearing on February 21 — Are tech companies liable when their algorithms recommend terrorist content? The Court's answer could upend the way the internet works.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at You.com, Andi, and Perplexity, three startups that started offering chatbot-enhanced search tools before the new Bing and Google's Bard came along — A frenzy of activity from tech giants and startups alike is reshaping what people want from search—for better or worse.
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| Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the use of conversational AI in US call centers, which some agents find helpful and others say leaves the humans with more complex, intense workloads — Call centers are at the forefront of deploying artificial intelligence, with bots that automate basic tasks and instruct humans how to do their jobs
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content — Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
An amateur Go player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 of 15 games, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had analyzed the AI system for weaknesses — Amateur Kellin Pelrine exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated board game's grandmasters| Laurence Fletcher / Financial Times: |
Hedge fund Galois Capital, which managed ~$200M in 2022, shutters, returns investor money, and sells claims for $0.16 after half its assets were trapped on FTX — Co-founder Kevin Zhou says fund is no longer viable and sells claim on collapsed crypto exchange for 16 cents on dollar
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Geekbench creator John Poole on making the tool cross-platform from the start, what's new in Geekbench 6, why benchmarking matters, and more — “How hard can it be to write a benchmark? Maybe I should write my own.” — We review a lot of hardware at Ars …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: KKR-owned BMC Software confidentially filed for a US IPO, seeking a valuation of up to $15B; KKR acquired Houston-based BMC in 2018 for $8.3B — BMC Software, a technology company owned by KKR & Co., has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Semiconductor industry supply giant Applied Materials predicts a $250M hit in Q2 after a ransomware attack at an unnamed supplier, likely MKS Instruments — Multibillion-dollar corporation Applied Materials, which provides technology for the semiconductor industry, said during an earnings call … | Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter has faced at least nine lawsuits in recent months from landlords, consultants, and vendors demanding payments totaling $14M+ for unpaid bills — Lawsuits come as the billionaire says the social-media company is on track to break even — Since Elon Musk took over … Sponsor Posts
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