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OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters — To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won't use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in — As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee votes 24 to 16 to advance a bill that would enable President Biden to ban TikTok and other apps considered security risks — The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and other apps.
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| CoinDesk: |
Filing: crypto-friendly bank Silvergate delays its annual report and cites investigations from regulators, Congress, and the US DOJ; its stock plunges 30%+ — Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading. — Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner — U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlines his key priorities and teases upcoming features, such as new generative AI tools for creators and Shorts additions — Neal Mohan, the new head of YouTube, outlined his key priorities and teased some upcoming features for the media platform …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race — OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
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| Zeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate: |
Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023 — Crypto exchange platform Robinhood's wallet application launched on the iOS application store on Mar. 1, according to the announcement published on the Robinhood blog.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats — Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. — On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok introduces new well-being features, including improving screen time controls, adding new default settings for teens, and expanding Family Pairing — TikTok announced today that it's introducing new well-being features for teens, families and its broader community.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Twitter users globally reported multiple site issues for over two hours, including the timeline not loading on the web and mobile; most users could still tweet — Twitter was having difficulties this morning, with users reporting that the site's timelines were inaccessible.
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| Reuters: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $8.38B, vs. $7.99B est., Q1 revenue guidance above est., and a share buyback program boost to $20B; CRM jumps 15%+ — Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) on Wednesday forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates as pandemic-induced migration …
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: at least eight companies that went public via SPACs filed for bankruptcy since June 2022, almost 100 are spending unsustainably, and 73 trade below $1 — It took only 10 months for Quanergy Systems Inc., a maker of high-tech sensors and software, to go from its stock market debut to filing for bankruptcy.| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Snowflake reports Q4 revenue up 53% YoY to $589M, vs. $576M est., lowers FY 2024 guidance below est., and authorizes a $2B share buyback program; SNOW drops 5%+ — Company lowers full-year forecast relative to an initial view offered in November — This update corrects the FactSet consensus … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon's Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor — Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
After a lengthy, unexplained outage over the weekend due to a network update, Solana Labs plans to improve its upgrade process to ensure reliability and uptime — Solana co-founder said last week's 1.14 network update has raised concerns about maintaining stability during major updates.
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| Bloomberg: |
How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key player in the US' stricter China policy, including helping steer the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok — Gina Raimondo is the first to admit that she often can't see the line between work and play—or even work and pray.| Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: |
Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022 — The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apptopia: so far in 2023, TikTok has generated $205M more in IAP revenue than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined — Big social networks are pulling a massive revenue U-turn since Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency. The user privacy feature …
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Apptopia Blog, KnowTechie, and Insider Intelligence
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M — Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing … | Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
A look at Russia's cyberattack on Viasat's KA-SAT network in February 2022, leading some countries to debate how to improve satellite security for the long term — Andreas Wickberg loves snowmobiling to the house he built in the icy reaches of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Tweets: @katrinamanson, @spaceisac, @reversemode, @bw, @retogregori, and @jeffstone500
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft's Windows 11 announcement of adding the new Bing “directly into the taskbar” is wildly misleading since using Bing Chat still requires opening Edge — What the hell, Microsoft? — Yesterday, Microsoft made a big hubbub about a new Windows 11 update that allegedly puts AI …
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