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Google updates Chrome for Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS with new Memory Saver and Energy Saver features that are on by default — Memory Saver and Energy Saver are here — Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers for Android, and it also offers feature parity with the desktop version.
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A Wharton School professor whose classes required using ChatGPT to write essays says students fact-checked and quickly understood AI's accuracy and bias issues — (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned) — I fully embraced AI for my classes …
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A look at executives, engineers, scientists, and other employees experimenting with ChatGPT and other AI tools to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind — ChatGPT's release has sparked a rush of early adopters eager to speed up tasks or avoid being left behind
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Many Microsoft Outlook users say their inboxes have been flooded with spam for hours, as filters appear broken; Microsoft says issue has been resolved — According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails over the last nine hours …
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Exploring likely reasons why the new Bing is reckless, like debuting with not enough training on reinforcement learning with human feedback compared to ChatGPT — And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially? — A wild story in which I probe what Bing's chatbot … | 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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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Preqin data: VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds in Q4 2022, down 65% YoY and the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012 — Slowdown that earlier hit tech startups catches up with investors who fuel venture capital — Fundraising by venture-capital firms hit … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft has started testing a major new Teams version that uses 50% less memory and taxes the CPU less, and plans to release a preview in March 2023 — Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground …
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| Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg: |
Ride-hailing service inDrive, whose gross revenue increased 88% in 2022, raised $150M in debt that links repayment to its performance, from General Catalyst — InDrive, the second-most downloaded ride-hailing app in the world, raised $150 million using an unusual debt instrument that links repayment to the company's performance.
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| Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: |
Mumbai-based Mintoak, which lets banks deploy and scale services like payments and lending to their SMB customers, raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures — The startup plans to use the raised capital to ramp up its tech stack and double down on the existing product portfolio.
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| Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.2, the first mainstream Linux kernel to support Apple's M1 chips, which is expected to become Ubuntu 23.04's default kernel — Linux 6.2 was released yesterday, and Linus Torvalds described the latest Linux kernel release as, “Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release … | Laurence Fletcher / Financial Times: |
Hedge fund Galois Capital, which managed ~$200M in 2022, closes, returns investors' money, and sells claims for ~$0.16 after half its assets were trapped on FTX — Co-founder apologises in letter to investors and says fund is no longer viable — A hedge fund that was one of the highest-profile victims … Sponsor Posts
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