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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off disabled Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined in 2021 after Twitter acquired his startup Ueno — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's scramble to add generative AI to its products, reminding some employees of the rush to infuse Google+ into every key service starting in 2011 — Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google's thing. The company has cultivated a reputation for making long-term bets …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business — Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year — Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
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TikTok announces Project Clover, outlining its plan to charm European regulators, including keeping user data on servers in Europe and allowing an audit — BRUSSELS — TikTok has launched its European counteroffensive to assuage politicians' fears over Chinese surveillance.
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Coinbase announces a “Wallet-as-a-Service” product, offering APIs to help companies create customizable wallets for their apps more easily — - Coinbase has announced a product called Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), designed to let companies build web3 experiences that have simple wallet onboarding.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
DuckDuckGo launches OpenAI- and Anthropic-powered DuckAssist in beta, using Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and other sources to summarize answers — The new DuckAssist tool will source answers from Wikipedia for quick, conversational responses to some questions.
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages on Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records — Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2023 with a “limited live audience” for May 10, when Android 14 details, Pixel 7a's debut, and a Pixel Tablet launch date are expected — Following the literal input/output puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2023 is taking place Wednesday, May 10.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on his social news app Artifact, curating sources, editorial judgment, avoiding filter bubbles, and more — Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram's co-founders, opened to the public.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after finding its rules from November 2022 “resulted in a stricter approach than we intended” — YouTube will ease its restrictions on swearing in videos after an update it rolled out in November sparked backlash from several creators … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control — ChatGPT-style AI model adds vision to guide a robot without special training. — On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google … | James Archer / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: |
An interview with Valve designer Lawrence Yang and engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais on the Steam Deck after one year, community-driven improvements, and more — The portable PC's creators reflect on its first anniversary and look to its future — Happy birthday, anniversary, launchiversary … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Panic launches Catalog, a curated game store for its handheld Playdate console with 16 titles, and raises the device's price by $20 to $199 starting in April — As part of a showcase event, Panic announced that Catalog, a game store for its Playdate handheld, would be launching today.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others — Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks — Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out; her nomination was stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
How Silicon Valley became obsessed with effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios like killer rogue AI — Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
A look at the AI Education Project, a nonprofit backed by Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others that offers resources to boost AI literacy in low-income schools — With students taking advantage of ChatGPT for homework and term papers, there's a lot of handwringing about whether artificial-intelligence tools …
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| CoinDesk: |
A New York bankruptcy judge says Voyager Digital can sell its $1B+ worth of assets to Binance.US, overruling objections by the US SEC and state regulators — The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
Across the US, towns and cities are feeling the impact of Amazon's belt-tightening, often having welcomed the company with incentives, as pandemic growth fades — As the e-commerce giant presses pause on construction of HQ2 in Virginia, other towns and cities are feeling the impact of the tech behemoth's pullback
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@richard_florida, @carlquintanilla, and @damianpaletta
| New York Times: |
As tech giants cut back, staff working on big bets and moonshots, like Amazon's Alexa and Google's X, were heavily impacted; Meta's Reality Labs is an exception — Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs.
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@nytimesbusiness, @ethan_in_sv, and @marcportermagee
| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content — Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content| Bloomberg: |
Sources: after postponing construction at the end of 2022, Intel seeks an extra €4B-€5B from Germany to build its chip plant, taking the expected cost to ~€30B — Intel Corp. is seeking an additional 4 billion to 5 billion euros in subsidies from the German government … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Silvergate is in talks with FDIC officials about ways to avoid a shutdown, including lining up crypto-industry investors to help shore up its liquidity — US regulators have been sent to the headquarters of Silvergate Capital Corp., as the troubled crypto-friendly bank looks for a way to stay in business.
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