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Clearview AI's CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users' consent from sites like Facebook — Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple rolls out Apple Pay Later to select US users, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, available to all US users in the coming months — Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company's take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches — Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more — After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and improved security, to better compete with ChromeOS — Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.” — What you need to know
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| Reuters: |
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of ordering an Alameda payment of $40M+ in cryptocurrency to bribe Chinese government officials — U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers — A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, offering SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims 90%+ of the US population can now access the long-range IoT network — It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google's LLMs for its Ghostwriter product — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software … | Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO — Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first “touch-enabled board” to run Teams Rooms on Windows — “Teams Rooms on Windows” will ship on the new Surface Hub 2S. — What you need to know
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack invites its newsletter writers and others to invest, aiming to raise $2M; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in March 2021 — Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
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@cjgbest, @substackinc, @caseynewton, @sarafischer, @adamry_n, @substackinc, @ejeancarroll, @binarybits, @rafat, @hamishmckenzie, @pitdesi, @amasad, @erikphoel, @iiiitsandrea, @jessicalessin, and @emilyrnunn
| New York Times: |
On TikTok, #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27, up from 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos arguing the app shouldn't be banned in the US — After lawmakers grilled TikTok's chief executive last week, the app's users argued that the platform should not be banned …
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| Stratechery: |
Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform — Yesterday's episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering.
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Vectara, Wired, The Information, gHacks Technology News, and Livemint
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies — Alphabet Inc.'s Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation …
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The Information, The San Francisco Standard, CNBC, The Register, and Reuters. Tweets:
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system integrated with nearly all Nest products and also offers sensors, a keypad, and more — Nearly three years after the two companies first announced a partnership, we're finally seeing Google and ADT debut the product that makes it worth it.
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ADT, The Verge, Android Police, Engadget, and Android Central. Tweets:
@killedbygoogle. Thanks:@nexusben
| Lena Masri / Reuters: |
A review of 2,000+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and video surveillance systems to find and arrest hundreds of protesters or even prevent protests — A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin's opponents.| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Discounting AI's short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared — Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there's a lot to be worried about, either way. — Is AI going to kill us all?
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@garymarcus@sigmoid.social. Tweets:
@garymarcus, @elonmusk, @danbri, and @tszzl
| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
Japan's FTC says the watchdog does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without a cease and desist — Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
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Japan Fair Trade Commission, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, WinBuzzer, TweakTown, TrueAchievements, Thurrott, Neowin, GameSpot, and Game Developer. Tweets:
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B — Chip company writes off more than $1.4 billion in inventory as sales get chopped in half and memory-chip market melts down … | Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: |
How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government's adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country — Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country — SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador … Sponsor Posts
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