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Meta debuts Meta Verified, a subscription service with a blue badge, impersonation protection, and customer support for $12/month on the web or $15/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 — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — “You're in!” the email said.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
A preview of the Gonzalez v. Google case and a look at the Israeli nonprofit law center Shurat HaDin arguing against YouTube at the February 21 SCOTUS hearing — 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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| NBC News: |
Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21 — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and some of his most prominent Republican adversaries in Congress have become allies, of sorts …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
A human player beat a top-ranked AI system in 14 out 15 games of Go, using tactics suggested by a computer program that had probed the AI system for weaknesses — Amateur Kellin Pelrine exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated board game's grandmasters| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; all users can use an authenticator app or a physical security key — In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far …
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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 reporters' work to train its AI; source: 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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| 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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A look at e-scooter sharing startups in Europe, like Bolt, which raised $1.9B, amid some city bans and questions about the vehicles' environmental credentials — On April 2 the people of Paris will vote on whether escooter rental should be banned from the city.
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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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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector — The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term.
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