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Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company's ability to fight adversarial threats — from the when-government-demands-backfire dept — Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more — The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
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| Intel: |
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023's projected revenue — Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff … | Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Financial Times: |
In his first visit since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid the company's moves to diversify from the country — Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots — Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others — Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
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| Gary Price / LJ Infodocket: |
A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft threatened to cut rivals' Bing search index access over its use in their AI chat tools and warned at least two that they violated its terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
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| Irregular Ideas: |
LLMs will remove scholarly, creative, and economic software creation barriers, marking the industry's Gutenberg moment to unleash the next great technology wave — There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT.
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
How Meta could sidestep ATT's impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU's DMA — This week, Microsoft declared that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year, should its acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI's iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US' export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more — I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March's GTC conference, and again after last fall's GTC …
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