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Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round — Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
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HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit — HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port …
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| Jon Rice / Blockworks: |
After Oasis complied with a UK high court order and upgraded a DeFi contract, Jump recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit — The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit.| Politico: |
Crypto analytics firm Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin still allow traders to transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms — Two of the world's largest crypto exchanges failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
News Corp says attackers behind a data breach the company disclosed in February 2022 gained access in February 2020, stealing some personal data including SSNs — Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; China accounted for 55% of filings, the US accounted for 26%, and UK for 0.26% — The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total. — China is neither the world's largest developer of chips nor the world's largest maker of semiconductors.
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Meta releases Large Language Model Meta AI, or LLaMA, a foundational LLM designed to help AI researchers, available in sizes ranging from 7B to 65B parameters — As part of Meta's commitment to open science, today we are publicly releasing LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A major outage has taken down Dish Network's websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems — Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that's taken down the company's main websites, apps …
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| Sam Altman / OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its preparations for “if AGI is successfully created”, including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential — Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.
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myelectricsparks.com, Neowin, Tina's Newsletter, The New Stack, and The Verge
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs — - Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors … | Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things” — Midjourney says it's a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images.Sponsor Posts
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