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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now and promises to offer Activision Blizzard games on the cloud service if the acquisition closes — Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding, 10-year contract to bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox — Microsoft's deal with Nintendo to bring “Call of Duty” games to Nintendo systems — if Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition …
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing — Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories from people who only care about “making a quick buck” — Clarkesworld speculates that people are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word for accepted stories.
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| Washington Post: |
A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end — The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.
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| Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: |
Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling — I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests. My takeaways: — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses — Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta's Quest v50 update adds Direct Touch, an experimental setting that lets users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via a pinch gesture — Hand tracking on Meta's Quest VR headsets is about to get better. With the new v50 update, you'll be able to …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site's ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week — He keeps laying people off anyway. — Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database without a password for two weeks that had years' worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info — A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password — The U.S. Department of Defense secured …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Amazon expands its partnership with OpenAI-rival Hugging Face, which plans to build its next-gen LLM on AWS and have Amazon offer its tools to AWS customers — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is expanding a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face Inc. …
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| Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill: |
Medical device company AliveCor, which accused Apple of patent infringement, claims Biden upheld an ITC ruling that could result in an Apple Watch import ban — President Biden has upheld an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that could result in an import ban on the Apple Watch … | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
A look at Apple's smartphone dominance among Gen Z in the US, who make up an estimated 34% of US iPhone owners, as Samsung and Android struggle against iMessage — Younger Americans prefer an iPhone over Android by huge margins, creating unusual pressure over how they communicate| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Source and memo: Max Cutler, Spotify's head of audio talk shows and partnerships who oversaw deals with creators like Joe Rogan, is leaving to start a company — Max Cutler, Spotify Technology SA's head of audio talk shows and partnerships, is leaving the company to start a new venture.
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| Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: |
Berkeley study: researchers identified VR users with 94%+ accuracy using 100 seconds of motion data, after analyzing anonymized data of 50K+ Beat Saber players — Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I. — A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The FTC won't challenge Amazon's $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare, which will allow the deal to close later this week — The Federal Trade Commission won't challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. …
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