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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's new 24" iMac is in engineering validation testing, set to launch in H2 2023 at the earliest, likely with the M3, and in the old iMac's colors — Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and docs: Binance and Binance.US are more intertwined than they've disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to buy and sell crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.
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| Jason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly: |
Internal docs appear to show executives at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5% to 5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresented Eco's lending practices to users — a16z- and Thiel-Backed Startup's Future Uncertain As It Loses Bank Partner, Pays User Interest With Own Funds — Hey all, Jason here.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build — Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn't beat Google, but he's feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
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| Sergi Castella i Sapé / Zeta Alpha: |
Analysis of the top 100 most cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022: US-based AI research is the most impactful, and Google and Meta have dominated — Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible.
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Investor letter: Multicoin's hedge fund had a 91.4% loss in 2022; in November, Multicoin revealed an FTT position and that 10% of its assets were stuck on FTX — The fund's performance was severely impacted by direct exposure to now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and holdings in FTT and Solana-based tokens.| Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation — A new study based on a massive dataset of posts collected from Facebook pages and groups in the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election finds …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Meta, Twitter, and Snapchat's subscription fees and features are aimed at professional creators filling social feeds because regular users post too infrequently — Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are not for ordinary users. They're for the professionals who've taken over the feeds.| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
A presentation in FTX's Chapter 11 case shows the crypto exchange identified ~$2.2B of assets in FTX.com wallets and a ~$9.3B net borrowing by Alameda Research — So far, $2.2 billion in assets have been identified in the wallets of accounts associated with FTX.com, of which only $694 million are in the most liquid assets.
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business — Meta seems very committed to making hardware to usher in a whole new world and racing away from the games that drive its VR business.
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